Sequoia MS

We are in the mid of the second week at Sequoia MS.  The staff working hard and aclamating to new staff and a new location.  We are jelling like peanut butter and jelly.  The students are adjusting as well.  We have been working arduously to develop relationships with the students and ensuring they gel with one-another.  In an effort to live up to my view of being a life-long learner, I am open to new ideas and practices.  The teacher gave my some advice. Her advice, I will take me.  Her words of wisdom are as follow "younger children learn best when they do, not when they are talked to".  You will agree that that is the best for all ages, but most true for the little ones.  So I will learn and swirm and learn...  The first day, we did a student scavenger hunt to get the students to learn more about each other.  The students needed some help and the task with very smoothly.  This week, we are working on identifying the different types of emotions.  So, we utilized emotional charades.  The kids were hilarious.  You should have seen them!  Lots of laughter... Next week we will continue, but it will be students vs staff.  Get your face muscles ready staff.  The overarching theme for the year is to learn to develop relationships with peers.  The first lesson was to go fishing.  Instead of throwing many of these: !!!!; they need to throw more of these: ????.
We will keep you posted!