The last couple weeks, the students have been working on role-plays for different scenarios to demonstrate how they might be kind if it happened in their own lives.

We are continuing to review how to be "bucket fillers," and this week, we read a story called "The Jelly Donut Difference".

This week, we learned about bucket filling. Everyone has an invisible bucket to hold their good feelings. When we are kind to others, we fill their buckets and our own. When we are mean or ignore someone, we dip into their bucket. 

In 1st grade, we reviewed what it means to be a good listener. We talked about how it is important because it shows people that we care about what they say.

This week we talked about the things that they are good at and how they got so good... (Hint: Practice :-) ....) We played charades and students acted out the things that they would like to practice to get better.

In  1st grade, we talked about ways to help ourselves focus when we are getting distracted. Some of these ways include:

1. Take a deep breath and tell yourself to "focus"

2. Ask the person distracting you to please stop.

3. Move to a new spot if you are able.

We are talking about the way some emotions feel in our bodies. Talk to your child about how they feel and how it feels in their bodies! :)

This week we discussed what it looks and sounds like to be calm. Students had the choice to draw a picture of themselves being calm or practice identifying emotions with a ring toss game!

This week, we are talking about what test anxiety is and some coping skills to help manage it.

This week's lesson is about worry. We read the story "Wemberly Worried" and discussed things that may make someone worry. We learned how to use rainbow breathing to calm our worry.

This week we are talking about how to use clues to identify how someone else is feeling. The three clues that we learn about are: 1. Facial Expressions 2. Body Language and 3. Context/ What is going on?

This week we are reading a book called "The Way I Feel". This book introduces different emotions and what they mean. We will connect this with the Zones of Regulation. At NES, we use the language Blue Zone, Green Zone, Yellow Zone, and Red Zone. This categorizes our feelings and energy level by color.

This week was our first lesson, so we reviewed class expectations and learned how to do a Feelings Check-In. Students will be asked to identify how they are feeling by coloring in an emoji at the beginning of each of my classes.