This week has been a HOT one in Winnipeg! As a result, our classroom has been HOT too. The air conditioning in our section of our school has been broken for a while now and as a result we’ve been pretty sweaty. Keeping the lights out, using multiple fans, and drinking lots of water has been helping us a lot. The kids have such a great “go with the flow” attitude. We’re making the best of the situation. 🙂 You might notice the pictures from this week are a little dark, since the lights have been off.
We are digging deeper into our camping animal projects. What animals could you see if you went camping? The Super Kids are excited to learn more together. As you can see we’ve decided to make project posters to share with our learning buddies.
Have you read “The Thing Lou Couldn’t Do”? We read it this week and the class loved it. Lou’s friends want to climb a tree and play. The problem is Lou can’t climb the tree. She makes every excuse, but eventually she tries. She doesn’t make it, but she doesn’t give up. It led to a great discussion about perseverance. The kids then did a turn and talk and shared what they can’t do yet, but want to learn how to do.
The “Kids In The Know” program is a series of lessons geared to young kids, that help them understand personal safety. This week we talked about trusted adults that they can go to for advice. Below are a few pictures of those special people in the Super Kid’s lives.
We continued lessons on trusting their instincts, the buddy system, as well as keep and speak secrets. We roll played scenarios and talked about what to do if you have that uncomfortable feeling. I encourage all of my Super Kid’s families to talk about personal safety with your child to reinforce what we talked about at school and to answer any questions they may have after our lessons together.
A big thank you to one of our Super Kid’s mom for treating us to freezies on Friday! It helped us beat the heat. 🙂
