We have 2 new friends joining our class: Pierre le poisson positif and Gigi la girafe généreuse.  These 2 responsibility buddies will be on the lookout for students exhibiting great classroom behaviour.  Gigi will looking for students that are demonstrating kind and respectful behaviour (putting up their hands, waiting their turn, sharing, listening while others speak etc.).

Pierre will be looking for students that have a positive attitude about learning (listen attentively, follow directions and take their time to do their best work).  If a student demonstrates these qualities, they may arrive at school in the morning and find one of the buddies sitting on their desk.  They will get to spend the day with the buddy.  The next day, the buddy will be off to visit another deserving student.  We are hoping that this positive behaviour reward system will encourage students to be their best selves.

Monday our class will be celebrating 100 days of school. In anticipation, students created self portraits today of what they might look like when they are 100 years old.

In an effort to encourage children to solve small conflicts more independently, Aubrey is using a program called WITS to give our students common tools to help them solve  problems with their peers.

Below, you will find a picture of what WITS means.  Once WITS has been explicitly taught and modelled for the students, our hope is that they will be able to use this program on their own.  You may find this useful to try at home.