Communities are Empowered
This month we celebrate empowerment!
Empowerment is:
- Being brave
- Being strong
- Believing you can do anything
Check out our February Character Education Assembly hosted by Ms. Kolesar’s Kindergarten class!
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Communities Show Acceptance
This month we celebrate acceptance. What does it mean to accept others?
Acceptance is understanding and celebrating the ways that each person is different and unique.
That means having a right to their own feelings, thoughts and opinions.
When you accept people for who they are, you let go of your want to change them.
When We Are accepting we:
- Spend time with people who are different than you
- Include everyone
- Being kind and respectful
- Learn about other people and ask questions to get to know them better
- Make others feel valuable and loved regardless of differences
Check out our January Character Education Assembly hosted by Mrs. Cassetti’s 2nd grade class:
Communities are Resilient
This month we celebrate resilience.
What does it mean to show resilience?
Resiliency is our ability to bounce back when something tough or hard happens. It means we are strong on the inside.
When we are resilient and bounce back we:
- Set goals
- Feel good about the future (we are optimistic)
- Can identify our feelings and recognize feelings in others
- Don’t let bad moments stop us from having good days
- Use problem solving to reach our goals.
Check out our December Character Education Assembly hosted by Mrs. Bartell’s 2nd grade class:
Community Project: Students will draw or write on a feather how they will “bounce back” and be resilient when faced with a challenge! They can cut out the feather and use if they want to participate in Mrs. McBride’s & Mrs. Courtwright’s Monthly Challenge! Teachers will be giving out print outs of the feathers in school. If you want to print and work on your feather at home, click here.
If you’d like to design your feather on the computer:
Click here to view the details of the Dreamcatcher Monthly Challenge! Mrs. Courtwright
Click here to view the details of the Dreamcatcher Monthly Challenge! Mrs. McBride
Communities are Courageous
This month we celebrate being courageous.
What does it mean to be courageous or have courage?
- Courage means that you do the right thing even if it is hard
- Courage means that you are able to be brave and do something that might scare you
What are some ways you can show courage?
- Doing the right thing, even if others are not
- Be brave each day
- Try new things even if you might fail
- Tell the truth no matter the consequences
- Face your fears and try to overcome them
- Admit your mistakes and learn from them
Click here to view November’s Virtual Assembly hosted by Mrs. Fanning’s 2nd grade class!
Community Project: Each student will design a medal (digitally or on paper) about a time that they tried something new and were brave and courageous! Teachers have been given a class set of medals for their students. If you want to print and complete your medal at home, click here.
Click here: The Undefeated to visit Ms. Zatarga’s slideshow that has all the info on how to complete your medal on the computer!
Communities are Inclusive
This month we celebrate inclusiveness.
An inclusive school environment makes sure that:
- everyone is treated with dignity and respect
- all students belong and feel that they belong
- all students experience a positive and supportive learning environment
- students learn from diverse perspectives
- everyone feels included!
Below is October’s Virtual Assembly hosted by Mrs. O’Brien’s 5th grade class!
Community Project: Each student will design their very own flag showing what makes them unique and how they are inclusive to other students in school. We will then put each classes flags together to create a class book. Teachers/student have the option of designing their flag digitally or on paper. Teachers have been given a class set of flags for their students. If you want to print and complete your flag at home, click here.
Video of Ms. Mueller explaining the October activity: Designing your own flag
Click here: All are welcome virtual activity to visit Ms. Zatarga’s slideshow that has all the info on how to complete your flag on the computer!
Additional links (all in the slideshow):
The link for students to create a new copy of the flag to design
The link for students to click on to print a flag
Video– how to upload to Padlet
Video– how to design on Google Slides
Celebrating Diversity- Lesson K-2
categories: Updates, William O. Schaefer
Diversity is what makes us all special and unique! Please watch my video below to gain a better understanding of diversity:
Here is an extension activity to do at home or in the classroom: After watching my video, teachers play the video explaining the activity. Students will get to complete their personal self portait by coloring pictures of their favorite things. If time, students can share out loud with the class.
SOCES Celebrates Start With Hello Week
Next week (9/21-9/25) and the week after (9/28-10/2) is Start With Hello Week within South Orangetown. We will be celebrating two weeks to ensure all students will be able to participate during their week of in person learning (same activities for both weeks).
Each day there will be a school spirit theme that students and staff can participate in to promote inclusion and to show support for students who are showing signs of loneliness or social isolation. Teachers will be having discussions during morning meetings to reinforce the importance of being kind and including others.
Communities are Diverse
This month we celebrate diversity.
Diversity is the range of differences in people, places or things. There are many aspects of humans that make us different and diverse.
Some examples of diversity include: whether we are male or female, our age, where we live, where we are from, which religion we practice, the types of food we eat, the color of our skin, our ethnicity, the languages we speak, and whether or not we have a disability.
Community Project:
- Talk to your family about your ancestors, heritage, and traditions.
- Print this “I am from” worksheet or create your own.
- Write, draw, print pictures of where you are form and the traditions you have.
- Upload your picture or create a video with your form and share with our community.
- Select the link for the flipgrid project:
Our Song of the month: This is me
Have a great summer!
March at WOS – Flexibility
categories: Updates, William O. Schaefer
March’s Word of the Month:
Flexibility
Overview: Flexibility is the ability to adapt to changing circumstances.
RULER Emotion Words: curious, disappointed
Books about Flexibility
- Chester’s Way by Kevin Henkes
- But Excuse Me That is My Book
- Duck Rabbit by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
- The Blind Men and the Elephant by Karen Blackstein
- The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes by Mark Pett and Gary Rubenstein
- Not a Stick by Antoinette Portis
- Zoom by Istvan Banyai
- Not a Box by Antoinette Portis
- The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
- Penelope Perfect by Shannon Anderson
- My Day is Ruined by Bryan Smith
Book of the Month
Songs about Flexibility