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A book study from CESA 9 and CESA 5
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Book Group Roster
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Teacher Resources/Books
- A Cord of Three Strands: A New Approach to Parent Engagement in Schools by Soo Hong
- Books and Tips on promoting Life Skills
- Building Blocks for Literacy and Language
- CESA 9 Early Childhood
- Center on the Developing Child
- Center on the Social Emotional for Early Learning
- Choice Words by Peter Johnston
- Collaborating Partners/Pyramid Model
- Dome Noche Pacum song
- Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center (ECLKC)
- Elmo's Belly Breathe
- GoNoodle
- Help for Billy by Heather Forbes
- Kimochi
- Magic Island: Relaxation for Kids (CD/MP3) by Betty Mehling
- MindUp Curriculum
- Opening Minds by Peter Johnston
- Stress Free Kids (Book) by Lori Lite
- The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn from Each Other by Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
- The Learner-Directed Classroom: Developing Creative Thinking Skills Through Art by Diane Jaquith
- The Motivation Breakthrough:6 Secrets to Turning on the Tuned-Out Child by Richard Lavoie
- The Whole-Brain Child (Book) by Daniel Siegel
- The Zones of Regulation
- Tools of the Mind: The Vygotskian Approach to Early Childhood Education by Elena Bodrova
- Why Gender Matters by Leonard Sax
- Wisconsin Model Early Learning Standards
Children's Books
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Contact Information
Beth Tepper CESA 9 PST
btepper@cesa9.org
Cathy Daentl CESA 5 PST
daentlc@cesa5.org
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7 comments:
As I read about the link between developing social-emotional and/or self-regulation skills and literacy skills, I think about Peter Johnston's work on social imagination, the ability to take on another person's perspective. Literature can be a really great gateway to allow children to experience another perspective. The first book that comes to mind that helps students take on another perspective is Hey, Little Ant by Phillip Hoose. The conversation between boy and ant leads to a discussion about whether you should stomp on ants or not. Spoon by Amy Krouse Rosenthall is another title that promotes social imagination, by talking about understanding and celebrating differences and talents.
I was also thinking about books that I’ve used for social-emotional mini-lessons (i.e. Friendship Workshop)
Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems-Students could share a time when they overreacted/needed to overcome a challenge
Stuck by Oliver Jeffers – Illustrates why it is better NOT to make a little problem into a big problem
Beautiful Oops-The value of making a mistake, the chance to create something new and exciting (or how mistakes help us grow).
Waiting is Not Easy by Mo Willems-just what the title implies.
Courage by Bernard Waber
Earrings by Judith Viorst is helpful to talk about all those wants (and limited resources).
Enemy Pie-Great lesson about making friends. (i.e.-taking time to get to know someone is a special ingredient to making friends!)
I also think it is interesting to watch how reading a book can change the mood and energy of a class. When my students (or my daughter) get a little sassy, I like to share the book How to Heal a Broken Wing. After sharing the book about a child caring for a bird with a broken wing until the bird regains its strength, I've found the sassiness soon fades and the compassion and helpfulness grows. I hypothesize that children find the message empowering and/or are able to imagine themselves being helpful. They begin looking for opportunities to be the nurturing sole.
Looking forward to hearing other people's thoughts!
I read chapter one to three and wow! I am thankful for the titles and corresponding themes to use for Friendship workshops. However, more importantly I grasp the bigger picture of helping less resourceful families become equipped with the tools to navigate the complexities of social interaction. Thank you Mary Anne Buckley.
As I read chapter 1-3, I thought chapter 3 was most enlightening as it clearly stated and described the core social and emotional skills that are most important in the Friendship Workshops. These core skills are so important in all early childhood classroom as well as in 4K and 5K classrooms. I do agree that these core values help students reach their academic standards, they don't pull students away. When students can be cooperative, kind, peaceful, maintain self-control, persevere and are empathetic the classroom community is effective, therefore creating affective learning for all students involved.
Each classroom has their own characteristics, though I believe whatever those characteristics are that when the climate is supportive and educationally challenging all students can be high fliers at their own specific educational level. Thank you, Kristin Bornbach
In reading chapters 1-3, I continuously thought of how to incorporate the specific teaching of social/emotional concepts at the PreK level. I feel an appropriate summary is that educators can't assume students understand feelings/emotions. Each feeling/emotion must be taught...repetitively.
An area of both concern and focus for many of our 4k and 5k teachers is that of social/emotional development. A "walk-away" for me is to empower teachers to feel free to focus on social/emotional development.
I was quite drawn to the 6 social/emotional themes Mary Anne highlighted in Chapter 3: Getting Along, Empathy, Kindness, Peacefulness, Responsibility, Self-Control, Perseverance, and Giving and Getting Feedback.
These are great areas of focus for our PreK team. A favorite teaching strategy is that of "modeling" which is highlighted in chapters 1-3. Model, model, model.
Beth-can you add these 2 resources:
For children's book on emotion of anger
Crankenstein by Samantha Berger
Teacher Resource:
www.zonesofregulation.com
Our “Peacefulness” lesson was amazing at CREW! We talked about what makes us feel peaceful and I added ways the book suggested to make our bodies peaceful such as counting to ten, walking away and taking three deep breaths. We have added a song, “ Dome Noche Pacum” which is a latin song that means give us peace. The kindergarteners love the song and welcome opportunities to sing the “Peace” song to help calm their bodies down.
Sharing the Blue Crayon is an excellent book that has provided many meaningful CREW lessons in our kindergarten classroom over the last month and one half. The kindergarteners are learning about doing “Quality Work” this week. Sharing the Blue Crayon chapters 12 provided great tools on giving and getting feedback that has been helpful. When we first created out butterfly pictures the students all seemed to work hard. When it came time to share the pictures, the students would look around the room to see if it was their friend work to decide how they would vote, thumbs up for quality, thumbs down for not quality. It was interesting because even though I covered the names five year olds knew to look to see if it was their friends work and vote accordingly. After we looked at the pictures and rated them we talked about what goes into quality work. All the students we able to give good tips on what quality work should look like in drawing and writing. When I showed the fifteen picitures in a group that had made the quality cut. I asked , “ What about these? Are they quality work?” Everyone agreed that they were quality. Then I held up the ones that had not made the initial cut and asked if they met the student criteria for what quality looks like, they met the criteria too! We all learned the many faces of quality and how it can look so different and be the personal best work for a special student. Thank you for the opportunity to use this book in my classroom. I will continue to incorporate it throughout the year.
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