Happy Friday!

Today students took home their Friday Folders. Folders are to be emptied and returned the next school day. Inside today’s folders are flowers for parents/guard to write a hope, dream, or wish for their child to accomplish this year. The hope, wish or dream will be written on the petals for the flower and a picture of the student will go in the center. These will be posted under the students hopes & dream clouds that they made earlier this week.

Today we also practiced filling out I Care Plans. We got our acting hats on and pretended that we just pushed someone in line. We pretended to all have to take a break and fill out an I Care Plan:

A lot of teachers and parents have come to me complimenting the students’ behavior and asking if the looping has helped. My answer is “YES!” Looping so far has been an amazing experience and the students seem confident and ready to learn. We have saved SO much time by not having to introduce all of the routines. Instead, the students can remind each other what, when and how to do things. We do still practice, but we don’t need to practice and start over as much as the first year.

It has been a great first week of school and I cannot wait for the rest of the year!