Hello Eagles!! We hope you had a fantastic weekend! This week's lesson is for PK-2 and is all about learning to be the best listener you can be. This is an even more important skill to practice while we are doing things virtually because it can be very hard for some of us to focus that way. I know it can be hard for us sometimes, so even as adults, we really must practice those listening skills. In this story Howard has some trouble at first with listening and following directions but watch until the end to see how he solves this problem!
¡Hola Águilas!¡Esperamos que hayas tenido un buen fin de semana! La lección de esta semana es para PK-2 y se trata de aprender habilidades para escuchar y ser el mejor estudiante posible. Esta es una habilidad aún más importante para practicar mientras hacemos las cosas virtualmente porque puede ser muy difícil para algunos de nosotros enfocarnos de esta manera. Sé que a veces puede ser difícil para nosotros, así que incluso como adultos, realmente debemos practicar esas habilidades para escuchar. En este cuento, Howard tiene algunos problemas al principio para escuchar y seguir instrucciones, ¡Pero observa hasta el final para ver cómo resuelve estos problemas!
We hope you enjoyed the story! Answer these questions as you think back about it:
What were some mistakes Howard was making in the beginning of the story that showed he wasn't the best listener he could be?
How did he start to feel about those mistakes?
How did he start to make a change and be a better listener?
How did he feel at the end of the story?
Take this quiz to see how well you were listening to the story and see if you can answer all the questions right!
¡Esperamos que hayas disfrutado el cuento! Responde a estas preguntas mientras piensas en ellas:
• ¿Cuáles fueron algunos de los errores que Howard estaba cometiendo al principio del cuento que demostraron que no era el mejor estudiante que podía ser?
• ¿Cómo empezó a sentirse por esos errores?
• ¿Cómo empezó a hacer un cambio y a escuchar mejor?
• ¿Cómo se sintió al final del cuento?
¡Responde a este cuestionario para ver qué tan bien escuchó el cuento y vea si puede responder bien a todas las preguntas!
Now watch this fun sing-along and please dance and sing the words!
¡Ahora mira este divertido canto y, por favor, baila y canta la letra!
Here are some posters to remind you of how to be a great listener like Howard!
¡Aquí hay algunos carteles!
We hope you have a great week!! Remember to practice your best listening skills as you work with your classes this week! :-)
¡Esperamos que tenga una gran semana!! ¡Recuerde practicar sus mejores habilidades para escuchar mientras trabaja con sus clases esta semana! :-)
We hope you had another great week and are starting to get the hang of your virtual learning! We thought it would be a great time to listen to a story about how the character, A Little Spot, manages learning online and what expectations there are.
¡Esperamos que haya tenido otra gran semana y que esté empezando a acostumbrarse a su aprendizaje virtual! Pensamos que sería un buen momento para escuchar una historia sobre cómo el personaje, A Little Spot, maneja el aprendizaje en línea y las expectativas.
Did that story seem at all familiar to you? Do you follow the same expectations? How is it different for you and how is it the same? For your activity this week, we want you to make a list of at least three things you can do to be a better online learner and share that with a family member. Also, consider making a visual schedule for your week, so you are organized and can feel accomplished as you check each task off your list! It can be very helpful in making you feel prepared, organized, and accomplished. Here is a sample schedule below.
¿Te pareció familiar el cuento? ¿Sigues las mismas expectativas? ¿En qué se diferencia y en qué se parece? Para su actividad de esta semana, queremos que hagas una lista de al menos tres cosas que puede hacer para ser un mejor alumno en línea y que la comparta con un miembro de la familia. Además, considere la posibilidad de hacer un horario visual para su semana, para que esté organizado y pueda sentirse realizado al marcar cada tarea de su lista. Puede ser muy útil para que se sienta preparado, organizado y realizado. A continuación, se muestra un ejemplo de un horario.
We hope you all have a wonderful week and we look forward to continuing to see all of you in our Minute Meetings! :-)
¡Esperamos que tengan una semana maravillosa y esperamos seguir viéndolos a todos en nuestras reuniones!
Hello Eagles!! I hope you had a great first week of school!! I know it was a much different start than we are used to, but we loved getting to see all of your faces again and being back! This week's guidance lesson will also be for all grades PK-5 and then next week we will start alternating our weeks like usual, with PK-2 having their lessons first. This week we just wanted to focus on making sure you know how to access our lessons and our virtual counseling offices, so that you can start enjoying all of the books, activities, videos, and games in there! Please click on the video below to learn how to get to them and then your assignment is to start exploring and using them! We hope you enjoy them and have fun!! :-)
Hola Aguilas !! ¡Espero que hayan tenido una gran primera semana de clases! Sé que fue un comienzo muy diferente al que estamos acostumbrados, ¡Pero nos encantó verlos a todos nuevamente y estar de regreso! La lección de esta semana también será para todos los grados PK-5 y luego la próxima semana comenzaremos a alternar nuestras semanas como de costumbre, con PK-2 teniendo sus lecciones primero. Esta semana solo queríamos centrarnos en asegurarnos de que sepa cómo localizar nuestras lecciones y a nuestras oficinas de asesoramiento virtual, para que pueda comenzar a disfrutar de todos los libros, actividades, videos y juegos que hay allí. Haga clic en el video acontinuación para aprender cómo llegar a ellos para explorarlos y usarlos. Esperamos que las disfrutes y te diviertas !!
Welcome back to school! We are so excited for another great school year! We know this year we are starting things a bit differently than we are all used to, but no matter what, we are going to make it a great start and have a wonderful, new year together. For those of you who are new, we are your school counselors. Ms. Ahumada is the full-time counselor and works every day of the week, while Mrs. Rosales is part-time and works Tuesdays, Thursdays, and every other Friday.
Something we would love you to take a look at is our virtual counseling offices, that you will find a tab for on this blog. Click on it and you will see a virtual office for Ms. Ahumada in English and one for Mrs. Rosales in Spanish. There are a lot of fun videos, games, activities that you can use in the virtual office, so have fun clicking on everything and exploring!
We also want you to know that starting this week, we will begin popping into Zoom during one of your class times and we will be pulling each of you into a "breakout room" with us for a very quick minute meeting just to say hi and see how you are doing. We look forward to meeting with you! We have created a lesson for you below to watch that will help you learn even more about us, what we do as counselors, and how you can get a hold of us when you have a big problem. We will have a new lesson for you every other week. This week's lesson is for everyone, but then we will start our regular schedule. Next week will be a lesson for PK-2 and the following week will be for 3rd-5th and it will alternate like that. Enjoy this week's lesson and we look forward to meeting with you all soon!! :-)
Bienvenido de nuevo año escolar! ¡Estamos muy emocionados por otro gran año! Sabemos que este año estamos comenzando las cosas de manera un poco diferente a lo que estamos acostumbrados, pero vamos a hacer que sea un gran comienzo y tener un año nuevo maravilloso juntos. Para aquellos de ustedes que son nuevos, somos sus consejeros escolares. La Sra. Ahumada es la consejera de tiempo completo y trabaja todos los días de la semana, mientras que la Sra. Rosales trabaja a tiempo parcial y trabaja los martes, jueves y cada otro viernes.
Algo que nos encantaría es que visiten nuestras oficinas de asesoramiento virtual, las encontrarás en este blog. Haga clic en él y verá una oficina virtual para la Sra. Ahumada en inglés y una para la Sra. Rosales en español. Hay muchos videos, juegos y actividades divertidos que puedes usar en la oficina virtual, ¡Así que diviértete haciendo clic en todo y explorando!
También queremos que sepa que a partir de esta semana, comenzaremos a aparecer en Zoom durante uno de sus horarios de clase y los llevaremos a una "sala de grupos" con nosotros para una reunión de un minuto solo para saludar y ver como estas. Hemos creado una lección para que la vea a continuación y que lo ayudará a aprender aún más sobre nosotros, lo que hacemos como consejeros y cómo puede comunicarse con nosotros cuando tenga un grande problema. Tendremos una nueva lección cada dos semanas. La lección de esta semana es para todos, pero luego comenzaremos nuestro horario regular. La próxima semana será una lección para PK-2 y la semana siguiente será para el 3º al 5º y se alternará así. ¡Disfrute de la lección de esta semana y esperamos reunirnos con todos ustedes pronto! :-)
I cannot believe we have made it to the last week of school! What a crazy and unexpected ending to our year! While I am sad that it is ending this way, instead of being together at Oak Hill and getting to hug each other goodbye for the summer, I must say I am also feeling very proud. I am so proud of all students, parents, and staff for getting through the rest of the school year together with positivity and hard work! We all definitely lived up to our final "SEL Trait of the Month", which was PERSEVERANCE!
We don't yet know what the future will bring for going back to school in the fall and that can cause some anxiety for some of us. I know Mrs. Rosales and I are feeling a bit anxious for sure! It can be hard to face the unknown, but I know that whatever the decision is we will all get through it together as an amazing campus! We wanted to leave you with a lesson and story to help you deal with some of the anxieties you may face at this time. Enjoy this story for all ages about a strategy you can use to calm your anxiety and find your "peaceful spot".
PK- 5th Grade can enjoy this story:
Hopefully you were able to join along with the story and practice moving or blowing away those "anxiety spots" and turning them into your "peaceful spot". These are just a couple ways you can try to calm your anxiety, but there are so many other ways. What ways have you already tried that have worked for you? For me sometimes exercising works well for me. It gets my endorphins going and makes me forget for a little bit about what I worried about. Especially when my workout involves being outside and getting some fresh air. If I am inside, sometimes it helps to cuddle with my cats or watch something funny with my fiance. Find what works for you and helps you to focus on something more positive. Can you make a list of all the things you can do to calm down, if you are anxious, scared, nervous, or worried?
Here are a couple of activities you can do to help remember to practice your breathing, in addition to the breathing activities you saw in the story:
Try those activities and the different methods Conscious Discipline suggests for calming down. Hopefully you will find the right one that works for you!
Also, if you didn't have a chance to watch the "NPFH Year in Review" video yet, please be sure to check it out! You may even see yourself in it somewhere. It features our big "SEL Day" we had where we went out to the field and spelled "Be Kind". That was such a fun day and I am glad we have that memory to hold on to right before we were unable to come back to school.
Mrs. Rosales and I hope you have a wonderful summer break!! While your summer may look a little different this year, we know you will all get creative and find some fun things to do whether you are in your homes, or outside exploring! Remember to be positive, be kind, and persevere! We look forward to seeing you all in one way or another in the fall!! :-)
I hope you all have had a great week!! What fun things did you do this week with your families? Have you been able to turn the "yucky stuff" into a beautiful pearl, like the oyster did in The Story of the Oyster and the Butterfly? Think of all the negative things you've been able to turn into positives. Maybe even write, or draw about them. Doesn't that feel great?
This week we want to share a lesson with you on conflict resolution. We know many of you may have siblings at home and maybe you are getting in some arguments, especially now that we are together all the time. I know I sure had my fair share of arguments with my siblings when I was growing up. It's normal and okay to get in arguments with our siblings and friends sometimes (not too frequently), but what is really important is that we know how to handle those arguments the right way. It is never okay to hit someone and it is not a good idea to scream and yell. Shubert is going to show us how he learned to handle a student in his class who was being mean to him and stole his apple from him. He learned how to use his big voice (firm voice, but not yelling), and you can, too!
All grade levels can enjoy watching Shubert's Big Voice. Then, look for the lesson to complete after the story for your grade level:
Now that you have heard the story, see if you can answer all of these questions. Maybe even try to role play using your "big voice". When someone is bothering you, or doing something they shouldn't be doing to you, it is okay for you to stand up for yourself and tell them to stop. If they don't stop after you have used your "big voice" and you have tried to solve the problem, find a trusted adult to get help from right away.
For 3rd-5th grades, you will find these videos about our brains helpful before you do your activity. Your activity relates Shubert's Big Voice to how we react to conflict or situations based on the emotional reactions from different parts of our brains. These videos will help you to learn about the different parts of the brain and how the limbic system is connected to our emotions.
I really love that brain song and hope you did, too! It had me dancing and learning in a fun way! I hope you all have a wonderful week! I can't believe how close we are to the end of the school year. I hope can start thinking of all the fun things you can do this summer. Even though we may be limited to some things we can or can't do, I know you all will get creative and think of some new ideas you maybe haven't thought of before! :-)
I can't believe that May has already arrived and we are heading into our 7th week of online learning! I just couldn't resist adding this ever-so-popular Justin Timberlake introduction to May. ;-)
This week we want to focus on helping you with ways to practice mindfulness, or being present in the moment. It's easy to sometimes get wrapped up in your electronics, the stress of schoolwork, being worried about things, etc. Learning how to be more mindful can help you detach from all of that and truly clear your head, while just living in the moment.
This week's lesson is to practice being more mindful and one great way to get started with that is by using the Mind Yeti videos. They will help walk you through different mindful activities and meditations. They are appropriate for all ages. Here's one to get you started on your mindful journey:
Here is the link to follow to get the whole Mind Yeti playlist, so you can practice one, or more each day!
La lección de esta semana es practicar ser más consciente y una excelente manera de comenzar es usando los videos de Mind Yeti. Te ayudarán a guiarte a través de diferentes actividades conscientes y meditaciones. Son apropiados para todas las edades. Aquí hay uno para que comiences tu viaje consciente:
¡Aquí está el enlace a seguir para obtener la lista de reproducción completa de Mind Yeti en español, para que pueda practicar una o más cada día!
We hope you enjoy practicing mindfulness with these tools this week! Make sure when you play the videos are are coloring your mandalas, you are in a quiet area, away from all distractions. Have a great week!! :-)
