From the Conscious Discipline website www.consciousdiscipline.com
"With Conscious Discipline, we can learn to discipline differently than we were disciplined, break the cycle of “do as I say, not as I do,” and discipline our children without permissiveness, aggression or guilt." "Conscious Discipline integrates social-emotional learning, discipline and self-regulation so you spend less time policing behaviors and more time teaching vital life skills." "[Conscious Discipline] Defines discipline not as something you do to children, but something you develop within them." Conscious Discipline is a program that fits well with Responsive Classroom, which is used school-wide at John Rex. The materials below are now in all 4 PreK classrooms. With Responsive Classroom, we already had a Safe Place set up in the classroom. It is an area for students to go when they are mad, sad, or just want to be alone. We now have a Choice Board for our Safe Place, along with stars and posters to help students as they learn to identify their feelings and learn to regulate their emotions. Some of the strategies on the choice board are shown below with descriptions, so you can begin to use them at home if they are needed, as well!
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Thank you to those who were able to join me for our Parent Orientation tonight. I have attached the powerpoint for those that were not able to attend. I forgot one major part of Student of the Week and it is not on the powerpoint. During your child's week as Student of the Week, you or another family member will be invited to read your child's favorite story to the class. This typically happens on Friday at 9:20 but I will certainly make accommodations to be sure someone special to the Student of the Week is able to visit the classroom as a guest reader. As always, please feel free to email me with any questions. I look forward to meeting with everyone on September 1st!
:) Mrs. Stephenson In February, our class studied germs. We attempted an experiment with bread and germs. I used a rubber glove to transport 1 slice of bread to a ziploc bag. This was our control. Then I washed my hands and moved another slice to another bag. Finally, we passed around a slice of bread. Each child, with unwashed hands, touched the bread. We watched and waited as our bread turned stale....we had hoped for mold. We anticipated the dirty hand bread would mold the fastest! Two months later, I decided it was time to toss out this experiment and try again with an apple. Mrs. Tucker is in awe by the absence of mold. She stopped me from throwing away the last piece of bread (the dirty hand bread). She added a few drops of water and is anxiously waiting for something to happen. I'll update you if it does.
So, back to our new experiment. The apple worked! This time, we were sure all of the apple slices would turn brown immediately and the dirty hands apple would brown the fastest! After 2 days, it was only slightly darker than the control and clean hands apple. But after 4 days, the effects of the germs were clear! Pictured below are Day 4 and Day 7. |
AuthorKatelyn Stephenson, Archives
February 2017
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