For the month of February we start gearing up for state testing which begins next month. 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade heard another book by one of my favorite authors, Julia Cook. She recently published The Anti-Test Anxiety Society which teaches students the "Dynamic Dozen" which should be used to reduce the stress that can come with big tests. Students were then asked to write down all their fears when it came to testing and we then ripped up those fears as a symbolic way to show that we now had 12 things we could do to overcome those fears in testing. At the end of all big state testing in May the classes will dump their fears in the trash as one final release.
1st grade finished their adventures with Fuzzy and learning how to be great students. In the final story they saw Fuzzy step up to be a great leader. I challenged all of them to become great leaders in their strengths just like Fuzzy did. Students were sad to see the adventure end.
2nd grade went through Mrs. Newman's top eleven ways to have no friends. We talked about how things we do can make others not want to be around us. We turned this eleven into positives of what we should do to be great friends and likable people.
1st grade finished their adventures with Fuzzy and learning how to be great students. In the final story they saw Fuzzy step up to be a great leader. I challenged all of them to become great leaders in their strengths just like Fuzzy did. Students were sad to see the adventure end.
2nd grade went through Mrs. Newman's top eleven ways to have no friends. We talked about how things we do can make others not want to be around us. We turned this eleven into positives of what we should do to be great friends and likable people.