Kids And Company-Together For Safety

Kids And Company-Together For Safety

Today, we had a very full safety lesson that I hope you will review and discuss with your children. The lesson began with a discussion of feelings The children reviewed happy and sad feelings such as content, comfortable, confused, worried and perplexed. Then we talked about okay touches and not okay touches and how those make you feel and remembering the strategy of NO-GO-TELL a trusted adult when our warning bells go off and we are feeling uncomfortable. This then led to a segment on private body parts (with proper terminology) for both the boys and girls. The last part of the lesson reviewed the difference between a swell secret(surprise) and a tell secret. Please let me know if you have any questions about the lesson. We shared with the children how important these topics were and how they were topics to be discussed at home and at school with trusted adults.

A Great List of Family Movies

52 FAMILY MOVIE RECOMMENDATIONS

A year’s worth of weekly family movies!

(To read more about the movies listed, including rating, age, reviews, etc, I’ve included links to the Amazon listings.)

 Studio Ghibli Films

*My Neighbor Totoro

*Kiki’s Delivery Service

*The Secret World of Arietty

*Ponyo

*Whisper of the Heart

*The Cat Returns

Princesses and Fairytales

*Frozen

*Brave

*Tangled

*The Princess and the Frog

*Peter Pan

*Epic

*Ella Enchanted

Rise of the Guardians

Movies about Animals

*Rio and *Rio 2

*Whale Rider

*Dolphin Tale

*Free Willy

*Big Miracle

*Turtle’s Tale

*Finding Nemo

*How to Train Your Dragon

*Racing Stripes

*Monsters Inc

*Night at the Museum

*Ice Age

*Mr. Popper’s Penguins

*We Bought a Zoo

Disneynature: Oceans

Movies about Family Dynamics

*The Croods

*Ramona and Beezus

The Parent Trap

Freaky Friday

*Lilo & Stitch

*The Incredibles

*Despicable Me

*Nanny McPhee

*Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

*The Sound of Music

Honey I Shrunk the Kids

The Odd Life of Timothy Green

Adventure and Other Movies

*The Neverending Story

Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium

Up

Wreck in Ralph

*Shrek

The Goonies

Wall-E

*Pippi Longstocking

*Laura’s Star

Hugo

*The Love Bug

HALLOWEEN PARADE

Mark your calendars...our annual kindergarten-grade 2 Halloween parade will take place on October 31 at 9am! 

• Parents are invited to the front driveway to cheer on their costumed children. K-2 children should come dressed in as much of their costume as possible, with the rest in a labeled bag. Since costumes will not be worn for the remainder of the day, be sure your child has an appropriate change of clothing.  Please remember to emphasize non-violent costumes, with no weapons, gore or blood. Halloween School-Wide DEAM (Drop Everything and Move) will directly follow the parade outside on the hill
  

Innovation/Improvisation

Our thanks to The Friends Of Cutler Cultural Enrichment Committee for sponsoring our most recent assembly. The students enjoyed the fast pace silly antics of Boston Improv. The children learned how some of the most important inventions were not planned but came when people thought outside of the  box.

A Great Resource

PRINTABLE CONVERSATION CARDS

http://childhood101.com/2013/05/printable-conversation-cards/

Great for family mealtimes (I'm thinking Thanksgiving and Christmas!), ice breakers with children's and youth groups, even as class writing prompts! Click through to print your copy

Math Homework- Due Monday, October 27th

Homework-3D Shapes

Dear Families,

As part of  our current math  unit  on Distinguishing  Attributes of  Shapes, we plan  to create a class museum of  3 dimensional shaped . objects.     We are  asking students  to bring  in cones, cylinders, rectangular prisms, cubes, and spheres. We will display  the  objects around our classroom for  a few days. Students  will

describe  the  objects they  brought from  home. Then they  will  each choose several  from  our class museum to sketch  and describe  in our math journals.    We  will return all  the  objects soon as we finish our museum project. It would be helpful if you labeled  yours with  your child's name.

Many  thanks  for  helping  to make our 3D shape

Museum a success!

The First  Grade Teachers

Feeling Words

As part of our Kids and Company lesson, the children brainstormed different feeling words for happy and sad. In the program, Mrs. McIllvaine has 2 paper plate faces..Curly Jean/Gene and Curly Jo/Joe that represent feeling happy or sad.

Suggestion: Write each feeling word on a piece of paper and put them in a jar. Have each family member pull out a feeling and share a time they have felt that way or when someone might feel that emotion.

Here are list of synonyms:

Curly Jean/Gene Feelings

happy

excited

great

good

glad

safe

comfortable

cuddly

proud

loved

stupendous

terrific

joyful

included

cheerful

glorious

content

connected

calm 

relaxed

Curly Jo/Joe Feelings

sad
left out
worried
mad
discouraged
bad
embarrassed
bullied
angry
anxious
furious
cold
unsafe
nervous
scared
uptight
confused
excluded
"blue"
frustrated
uncomfortable

Kids and Company- Lesson 3

Today, we had Kids And Company-Together For Safety and Mrs.McIlvaine reviewed the safety strategy of Check First! The students discussed why it is important to check first and who they should check with before changing a plan, activity or location. Please review some scenarios with your child and practice which safety strategy you would use and why! Also, please continue to review phone numbers and addresses.

Check First- We Learned this during Kids And Company Too

Chorus

CHECK FIRST, CHECK FIRST

It’s safer and smarter by far, by far

CHECK FIRST, CHECK FIRST

We need to know where you are.

Before we answer the door,

Before we run out to play,

Before we help someone older,

We check to make sure it’s O.K.

Chorus

Before we go for a ride,

Before we go a new way,

Before we make some new plans,

We check to make sure it’s O.K.

Chorus

Have fun and laugh!!

Halloween Jokes for Kids

1. What does a ghost do to stay safe in a car? — He puts on his sheet belt.
2. Why did the witches cancel their baseball game? — They couldn’t find their bats.
3. What do monsters turn on in the summer time? — The scare conditioner.
4. Why is it safe to tell a mummy your secret? — It’ll keep it under wraps.
5. Why was the jack-o-lantern afraid to cross the road? — It had no guts.
6. What is a scarecrows favorite fruit? — STRAW-berries.
7. What is the best way to speak to a monster? — From a long distance away!
8. Where do baby ghosts go during the day? — Day-scare centers.
9. What do birds say on Halloween? — Twick o Tweet.
10. What is the most important subject a witch learns in school? — Spelling.
11. What kind of roads do ghosts haunt? — Dead ends.
12. How do you make a witch itch? —  Take away the W
13. Why didn’t the skeleton go to the ball? — Because he had no BODY to go with.
14. What do witches put on their hair? Scare spray.
15. Why don’t ghosts like rain? — It dampens their spirits.
16. What did the scarecrow say to the kid dressed up as corn? — That costume is a-MAZE-ing.
17. What candy do you eat on the playground? — Recess pieces.
18. Why do witches wear name tags? — So they will know which witch is which.
19. Why didn’t the scarecrow eat dinner? — He was already stuffed.
20. What kind of monster loves to disco? — The boogieman.
21. Why do people like vampires so much? — Because they are FANGtastic.
22. What does a cool witch ride instead of a motorcycle? — A Brrrrrr – oomstick.
23. How do you make a skeleton laugh? — Tickle its funny bone.

Dear First Grade Families,                                                                October 22, 2014

In an effort to continue to support and foster a positive connection between home and school we would like to ask that if your child comes home and shares a concern about something that happened during their school day, in the classroom, lunchroom, or even on a bus ride, that you connect with your child’s teacher as soon as possible to share that concern.  This way we can work together to find a solution and make sure the children feel safe and comfortable in their school environments. It is hard for teachers to be of help if we are unaware of a certain situation or concern. Please feel free to send an email or set up an appointment time to meet with your child’s teacher if any concerns arise.

We thank you for your continued support .

Sincerely,

Mrs. Greene

Mrs. Adamik

Mrs. Ibarra