Howard B. Wigglebottom Learns to Listen and Student Council

Another week has flown by and kept me busy! This week I was in all kindergarten, first, and part of second grade classes! We learned all about how to be a good listener, the importance of being a good listener, and the four listening rules. The four listening rules are from our Social Emotional Learning (SEL) curriculum are: "eyes watching, ears listening, voice quiet, and body still". We learned you have to do ALL four at the same time to be the best listener you can be and we practiced this a few times.

We also talked about how it can be dangerous if you are not doing your best to pay attention and listen because you could get hurt, like Howard B. Wigglebottom did! Howard B. Wigglebottom is definitely a classroom favorite and they will get to hear several stories about him throughout the year. In this story, Howard starts out having a really hard time listening. He doesn't listen to his friends when they are trying to talk to him, he doesn't listen to his mom, he doesn't listen to the teacher, and gets in trouble often. He got hit by a baseball, slipped on a banana peel, and got his ears stuck in the fan, all because he didn't listen. After having to sit in time out, Howard realizes all of his mistakes and is determined to make a change. He becomes an excellent listener from then on and gets rewarded for all his positive behaviors! It's a fun story, that the kids really love and they even get to sing and dance along to a rap at the end of the story!




You can check out all the Howard B. Wigglebottom videos and activities here for free: https://wedolisten.org/

After the video, we completed a listening activity where the kids had to color the clothes on the girl who is pictured being a good listener a specific color. They had to listen carefully for all of my directions, so they didn't color her wrong. They all did a great job with this!

 


This week was also an exciting week for Student Council! We now have all our class reps decided and are ready to begin with elections for office next week! Student Council reps in 4th and 5th grade will be coming home today with all the campaign guidelines and rules you will need to know! We all met together today to say "congratulations" and learn some important information about next week's elections and the expectations for being in Student Council! I am excited to get another great year started in Student Council with our new reps! Congratulations to everyone who was chosen and good luck if you are running for office!

Have a great weekend! :-)