Warren Guidance

Healthy snacks, Happy kids! Dear Warren School Families: Our students work very hard during the school day, balancing academic and social time, physical activity and fun!   It’s a busy day and kids need energy to keep going and be successful. Studies have shown that healthy eating can help learners in the classroom.  A Center for Disease Control and Prevention report showed that “eating a healthy diet and being physically active can balance kids’ energy levels for optimal attentiveness, increase focus and improve their overall academic performance”   (CDC July, 2016). Every class has a dedicated snacktime built into their schedule and it is important to provide children with healthy and nutritious snacks to re-energize and keep their bodies and brains ready to learn.    Please be thoughtful when packing your child’s snacks for school. Try to stay away from sugary sweet treats, candy, soda and too much juice. Instead, try ...

Thank you to the kind Leprechaun for bringing snacks to Warren School!

Students in Kindergarten are learning about three fair ways to play: sharing, trading and taking turns!

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Please meet our newest member of the Warren Guidance Team; MEDDY TEDDY!!!

Students in Kindergarten learned safe and respectful strategies to calm down when they are feeling angry (clean anger strategies).

"Just Breathe" by Julie Bayer Salzman & Josh Salzman  https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-adk-adk_sbnt&hsimp=yhs-adk_sbnt&hspart=adk&p=just+breathe+site%3Ayoutube.com&vm=r#id=1&vid=3d832c826fe795141e4cf9e69b88ec9a&action=click \ Glitter Jar Ingredients & Recipe   Jar or bottle For the jar, I use plastic water bottles so I don’t have to worry about glass breaking. For durability and shape, I prefer to use 11.2oz (330ml) Voss Water bottles. The labels peel off fairly easily, but you have to go slowly. Glue I really like Elmer’s Clear School Glue for my glitter jars. If you’re using the 11.2oz bottles I recommend above, one 5oz bottle contains enough glue for about 2 glitter jars. Glitter Fine glitter works best. I’ve used glitter from a glitter sample pack and we added in a few of the larger hearts and stars spangles from this Sugar Sparkles Sample Pack . Water Warm water, straight from the tap...

Mindfulness Books

Do some BREATHING!   Rainbow Breath    Snake Breath Bumble Bee Breath    Belly Breath     Candle Breath         Five Finger Breathing  Hot Cocoa Breath                Bubble Breathing Dandelion Breath (or your favorite hot food)

Mindfulness Activities For Teachers and/or Students: 1.      Belly breathing for one minute, hand on belly, feel belly go up and down 2.      Take a nature walk with students, find a pebble, make it their calming stone 3.      Spend a minute looking out the window at the leaves fluttering on the trees 4.      Sharing “Mindful Mantras” to students (i.e. “I think I can,” “I can do it,” “just try my best,” “Let it go,” etc.) 5.      Smell your favorite food and blow out your birthday candles 6.      Cup of calm – clap hands together, rub hands quickly back and forth, hands should get warm, place hands on face, repeat 3 times. 7.      Heart/Light – eyes are closed, relax, place right hand over heart, place left hand on belly, slowly make small circles over heart and belly for 30 seconds. 8.      Go play in your m...

Students in First and Second Grade will be learning about "The Size of the Problem" and appropriate responses to different problem sizes.

Students learned the importance of using their words. We read "A Bug and a Wish" by Karen Scheuer. They practiced being assertive using the Magic Bug and a Wish wand. For example, "It BUGS me when (you cut me in line) , I WISH you would go back to your line spot ."

SECOND GRADE Second Grade students learned the importance of friendship and team work. We worked together to pass the hula hoop to each other in a circle! We read the book TWO by Kathryn Otashi!

FIRST GRADE First Grade students cooked and apple pie with friendship ingredients such as kindness, sharing and being polite! We read WHAT'S THE RECIPE FOR FRIENDS? by  Greg Abele

KINDERGARTEN Kindergarten students learned the importance of being UNIQUE and built a friendship web! We read THE LONELY SNOWFLAKE by Anita Soelver and discussed how all snowflakes and people are UNIQUE!