Review Week

 Welcome Back! 

We are back in full force! We all know this week is all about review...

What do you review? We all know we review academics. But we also review what we have learned about Christmas:

• Empathy
• Compassion
• Size of the Problem
• Self-Control
• You a special

1. The day we come back all the students are so excited, and you get another "honeymoon" day of all the students listening and getting along.  They are all like sponges again so I read the book: Giraffes Can't Dance by: Giles Andreae I read this story to remind my students they are back at school with someone that provides them comfort and a loving environment.  We then remind each other reminding them using the daily affirmations we do.  

2. We also read: If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by: Laura Numeroff. This is a great example of EMPATHY to show students that when you do something that will always be a reaction to it. We retell the story (use pictures for younger grade). I will retell the story using the book and turn the page when they tell me what has happened next.  We review the term empathy and discuss how to show empathy. It becomes a discussion instead of a question/answer discussion.  This reviews all of parts of school and the things that can happen and how we react to other people. 

3. You bet we also discuss the size of the problem. These pictures are still up in the classroom, so we refer to the pictures and review the size differences along with examples and how we react to them.  This lesson is pretty quick being that size of the problem comes up daily! :)