During the months of May and June our K-2nd graders continued learning all about being good citizens. We learned about the many different neighborhoods here on Staten Island. We used our Smart Board to research Community Helpers and the jobs they have. Students shared the many different customs and traditions that their families celebrate. We sang new citizenship songs, created family trees, developed neighborhood maps using laptops, and did more role playing with our puppets.
During the Month of April our students began learning how to recognize, understand, label, and express their feelings. We read many stories including:
We also celebrated Poem In Your Pocket Day. Students in grades K-2nd wrote sense poems about their feelings.
We also read A Giraffe and A Half by Shel Silverstein.
Students made pockets with giraffes after our study on various types of poems.
This unit of study ended with a school wide poetry reading celebration. Every student read aloud their sense poem and then we created OUR FEELINGS QUILT OF POEMS.
Each publishing project that we embarked on this month has brought unique learning experiences to all of our students. Our quilt is hanging in our hallway and all of our poets seem to love to stop by the quilt to read their work to friends.
Our Citizenship words for March were BULLYING, KINDNESS, and COURTESY. We continued with our lessons on bullying. We read 3 more stories on our Smart Board about a Dinosaur named Tyrone who was a bully. Students identified the many different types of bullying occurring in each story. They worked collaboratively to formulate real world solutions to stop the bullying.
Students also learned some songs about kindness in school with Curtis the Courteous Raccoon!!!
On Monday, February 14, 2011, Dr. Merlino, Pedatirc Dentist visited our school. We had a lovely assembly. Dr. Merlino gave a terrific presentation using charts, books, and even some fun props. Students learned all about the importance of brushing and flossing, as well as the healthy foods that keep our teeth and gums strong. She also read some great stories and then students practiced brushing on GIANT TEETH with a GIANT TOOTHBRUSH and flossing on a STUFFED ALLIGATOR. The students loved the hands on experience and had many questions for Dr. Merlino. Dr. Merlino gave each student a coloring book all about teeth, a complimentary oral care packet, and a pencil to take home. THANK YOU DR. MERLINO.
This month our focus was on Diversity within our school community. We read many stories about making good choices in school, and our school mascot Wally Wolf helped students to learn about accepting differences in cultures and family traditions. Students also participated in role playing activities using puppets.
In preparation for RESPECT FOR ALL WEEK, we began studying about Bullying. We used our smart-board for all group activities. We visited Brain Pop Jr. and learned the many different kinds of bullying, how not to become a bully, and actions that we can take if we are being bullied.
Students completed web quests using laptops to gather information on the topic and then created their very own comic strips on the topic of bullying. Stay tuned for more to come next week on RESPECT FOR ALL WEEK!!!
Our Citizenship words for December included, FRIENDSHIP, CARING, and COMPASSION.
We used our Smart Board to learn how to be a good friend with Annie and Mobie at Brain Pop Jr.
We learned a new friendship song, and studied all about the community helpers inside our school community and outside in our neighborhoods.
We read many stories about Compassion, Kindness, and Caring. Our students made beautiful Holiday Cards for our Troops!!! ANd finally we celebrated UNITY IN OUR SCHOOL COMMUNITY by practicing some acts of kindness in school and at home. Students created Compassion necklaces and a helping hands school poster.
We used our Smart Board to learn all about the words UNITY, GOALS, TRUST, RESPECT, and DIVERSITY! Students completed writing pieces about unity. We worked on an assembly line to create ants so when the project was finished all students had added one part of the ant. We learned that we can accomplish much more by working together, than by standing alone. Students loved our COMMUNITY Chant. And finally we learned a new Citizenship Song called UNITY IN THE COMMUNITY!!!
Our Monthly Theme was designed around the concepts of COOPERATION, TEAM WORK, and SCHOOL CITIZEN”CHIP”. All projects centered on working in teams to complete a group task.
Students completed projects on the Smart Board, they worked in teams to construct team citizen”chip” cookies, and classes designed Recipes for school citizenship from our hearts. We also made a school wide Citizen “chip” cookie in which every student added 1 chip with a new citizenship vocabulary word.
Our Theme of the Month was “OUR UNIQUE SCHOOL COMMUNITY”.
Students learned all about diversity. We read many stories about children around the world and used laptops to complete a teacher created web quest at Brian Pop Jr. with Moby and Annie. Students drew self portraits and class discussions centered on acceptance of differences. Our favorite story was A CRAYON BOX OF COLORS. After competing our Smart Board Unit of study, we created a school-wide Crayon Box of Diversity!!!
Welcome to our 2nd year of PBIS at PS373R. This Blog will be used to showcase student work, special projects, and as a platform for web-quests and student inquiry research projects for Social Studies. We welcome your comments on all posts.
Our School Mascot Wally Wolf and his friends the Paw’s Club Kids helped our students begin the new school year by learning all of our unit wide school rules. Rules for classroom behavior and bus safety were introduced to all classes. Students learned the lyrics to our school song and began practicing strategies to help them earn their daily points. Our Student of the Week Program was initiated and students are also enjoying Friday Clubs. Our paws rewards will begin shortly.
Our Students all made their PAWS CLUB Promise for the School Year :
PREPARED
ACHIEVE
WISDOM
SAFTEY
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