It has been another great week at Wooten! On Wednesday, we celebrated World Kindness Day by wearing red and hearts, and crafting an amazing chain expressing how we demonstrate kindness at home and at school. We continued our classroom lessons on bullying and are beginning lessons on acceptance and equity.
This month’s Character Strong trait is Gratitude, “choosing to appreciate the people and things in our lives.” Practicing Gratitude can increase our well-being and even our happiness! Every classroom has been talking about the meaning of Gratitude, its benefits, and how we can practice it. Here’s one suggestion for practicing Gratitude as a family: Find a place in your home to display a glass jar. Cut up small slips of paper and place them next to the jar. Use the jar to collect special people, places, events, and memories that your family is thankful for. Find a time each week to add slips of Gratitude to the jar and assist students in writing or drawing gratitude as needed. Having a gloomy day or a challenging time as a family? Pull out the slips of Gratitude and read them aloud together as a reminder of your Grateful moments.
Our next Student of the Month assembly, on November 22nd at 9am, will honor a student from each classroom that has been showing their Gratitude this month. Be on the lookout for an invitation if your child was chosen as their classroom’s Student of the Month.
Also on November 22nd, we will be hosting Ann Richards School for girls for a presentation to parents during the Coffee with the Principal at 8am and to our 5th grade girls as they begin thinking about middle school options for next year. Mr. Murillo, Parent Support Specialist and Ms. Higgins will be sending more information on all of the middle school options in the coming weeks.
