Three Lessons for a Busy Thursday

Lessons learned:

1) Call, don't email, when parents are upset about something, even if they emailed you. Pick up the phone.

2) Five positive parent conversations can help to balance out one not-so-positive conversation.

3) The Social Thinking curriculum rocks, and everyone should use it. Never have I ever seen more kids admit their own faults than I have in the past two weeks. Seriously, check it out. Superflex works miracles.

And one more for good measure: 

4) Even pig-tailed, pink jacket wearing kindergarten girls are not above taking someone down for messing with their heavily guarded (by sitting on it like a mother hen) rock collection at recess.

A Sampling of My Current To Do List

(to be done hopefully before Tuesday... eek!... and this is only a smattering of my list)

- look through all of the new students' files/call some of their past counselors if need be/prep to help them on the first day
- finish going through all student files
- decorate two small and one large bulletin board
- schedule at least 3 more lunch groups into my week
- review the curriculum
- "UPS note health insurance" -- NO idea what this means, written in my chicken scratch on my list of things to do... any suggestions for what this might mean would be appreciated...
- learn about social thinking
- practice on the Smart boards
- finalize lunch groups

...I thought survival mode wasn't supposed to start until October/November...

Kindergarten Open House in the morning :-)