This week Mrs. Cheatham and Miss Edwards visited fifth grade classrooms to introduce 5th grade leadership! Fifth Grade Leadership is an opportunity for fifth grade students to help their BPE community by volunteering their fitness/recess time to help teachers and other adults around the school. Fifth grade students who complete three or more leadership jobs will earn a Leadership Pin in the spring. The leadership section of our SEL Website is still under construction, but by the end of next week all leadership jobs will be posted here. While fifth graders are responsible for keeping track of their jobs, parents may find it helpful to use this webpage to help their fifth graders stay on track.
Next week we will introduce our first Life Skill of the school year and begin our classroom counselor lessons. As always, we will keep our website updated with information about what we’re doing in classrooms and include some of that info here in the Counselor Corner, as well. Our hope in providing this information is that we equip parents with language and topics to help carry on the SEL conversation at home! Sincerely, Addie Edwards & Jennifer Cheatham
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Welcome back, BPE families! We are so excited to be your counselors this year and are thrilled that the district has made Social Emotional Learning (SEL) a priority again this year. The district is supporting the SEL initiative by continuing to implement Second Step, an SEL curriculum, to all grade levels and classrooms. In addition to our counselor-led classroom lessons, teachers will use the Second Step Curriculum to teach and embed SEL skills in their classrooms. We are optimistic about the growth our students will experience in 5 SEL Competencies: Self Awareness, Self Management, Social Awareness, Relationship Skills and Responsible Decision Making.
BPE will also continue our monthly Life Skills and the Wirht Wall of Fame. For the first nine weeks of school, our District SEL competencies will be Relationship Skills and Collaboration. During September, students will be focusing on RESPECT. Teachers and staff will be on the lookout for students showing respectful behavior and acknowledge students with a Bobcat Head. We also have some fun, new additions to our Life Skills program this year- be on the lookout for more information! We look forward to sharing more about these SEL skills and other important information in the Counselor Corner of the newsletter! You can also visit our website, bpesel.weebly.com, to learn more about what the counselors are doing at BPE. Sincerely, Addie Edwards & Jennifer Cheatham |