A Peek Inside Our Classroom Whole Body Listening, Ways To Help, Expected Chart

These first days of school your children have practiced Whole Body Listening. They show Whole Body Listening by listening with their eyes, ears, hands, feet, body, brain and heart. We discussed what is expected and why it is important. You can help your children by reminding them to use Whole Body Listening each day as they go to school. You can make sure they are not wearing things that might distract them. Make sure your children get plenty of sleep each night and have had something healthy to eat for breakfast each morning. At the end of the day ask them how they did with Whole Body Listening. I hope we can work together to help your children do their best listening throughout the day. 

This week we will begin an Expected Chart. I will be rewarding children who are "Caught" following Whole Body Listening. I will share with them that I can't catch it all the time but the more they show it the better their chances are of getting caught. At different points in the day I will check. I will select from our Fair Can/Card Deck several names. If selected students are showing Whole Body listening at that time those children will get their charts marked. Once their charts are filled they will get to select a prize from our prize box. 

If you would like to help you can donate to our prize box. I will be accepting any gently used small trinkets that children enjoy such as bouncy balls, rings, small notepads, erasers, pencils etc. Anything small that you know children like and that you want out of your house would work great. If you are shopping in the Dollar Store, Party City or Target there are often many items there that work great. I typically grab things from these places as I am shopping and from my own home as well. Any help is appreciated. Thanks. 

We have a classroom job for each student that rotates throughout the year. One job is our classroom photographer. I will share a few pictures they take at different times in our classroom blog and/or up in our classroom.  Here is our first pictures taken by Kelly. It is a picture of our Whole Body Listening poster. You can also see a picture of some of our classroom rules, our emotional Thermometer (which we haven't used yet), our class promise and our Manners at School display and our classroom scoreboard. I'll explain more on each of these items at our curriculum night. 

 

                                                     

Pictures taken by Kelly