This past week was filled with spring-related activities! Not sure about you, but we are READY for warmer weather, more time outside, flowers blooming, starting the garden, and preparing for a FULL next couple of months, so let’s HOP right into our Positive Psychology focus. We focused on Stress, Worry, and Anxiety this week in…
This past week during our Positive Education Focus with the children, we read the book “It Looks like Spilt Milk” by Charles G. Shaw. The story is about how sometimes clouds look like squirrels, an ice cream cone, an angel, a tree, and so on. We then had the children create their own “cloud” by…
For March, we are focusing on the topics of Growth Mindset versus Fixed Mindset as well as Stress and Worry. This week, we discussed with the staff how Creating Calm in any situation is so important. Why does creating calm matter? The first rule of anxiety management is: do something about your freak-outs before you…
This is our last week focusing on the topics of Empathy, Kindness, and Communication! As we are finishing up this week, we will have an All Staff Meeting tomorrow. Having monthly meetings are so important at this helps us stay connected, communicate with each other as well as discuss our topics/focus for the month ahead….
We are continuing to discuss the topics of Kindness, Empathy, and Communication this month with a focus on Love Languages this past week. For anyone that does not know, it’s a quiz to help understand how to communicate effectively with others as well as how to love your loved ones the way that makes sense…
We are continuing this great month by discussing all about Empathy! This past week, during our Positive Education Special, the teachers read the book, “The Monster Who Love His Mean” by Tiffany Streitz Haber and Illustrated by Kirstie Edmunds. The book focused on how everyone knows that the M in “Monster” stands for MEAN, but…
Love is in the air as we are in February and we are focusing on the topics of Empathy, Kindness, and Connection. The definition of Empathy means that someone can share or understand the emotions and feelings of another person. Someone may need to have a certain amount of empathy before they can feel compassion….
For the month of January, we focused on Movement and Goals as our themes for Positive Psychology. The teachers and children had a Movement challenge in the classrooms and on their own time. One of the movement activities that they participated in during our Positive Education Special was the Prisma Pal Break. Can you move…
Last night, we had an all-staff meeting via Zoom where we focused on Vision Boards. The Directors led the teachers in creating their unique vision board for 2022. To walk through how to make your vision board, you first need to fill out the Wheel of Life handout. This handout focuses on Personal Development, Spiritual…
We are in our second week of the 2022 year! We hope you all had a very Happy, Healthy, and Safe New Year! As we start the New Year off, we are focusing on the topics of Goals and Movement in Positive Psychology! This past week, we started a Movement Challenge with the staff as…