Whitson Elementary Newsletter
Principal's Corner
Happy New Year. I hope everyone had a safe, and relaxing break.
Our Cub Code focus for January is Always Do Your Best. With that in mind, January is a great time to set some goals with your child. Conversations about long term goals are important to create a vision for what they might want to do when they get older, but short term goals can also really make a difference. For example, setting a goal to read, write, or do some math problems everyday could be the key to achieving those long term goals. Here are four suggestions to use when setting goals with children -
Talk with them about a daily goal
Write down that daily goal and post it somewhere that is easy to see several times a day
Track how they do in meeting their goal
Create a reward if they meet their daily goal so many times in a row
Finally, one of the most powerful tools in goal setting with children is modeling. Try to set a daily goal for yourself alongside your child. Then track it and see how you do.
Go Cubs,
Todd McCauley, Whitson Principal
