Hello Green Tree Families! As we shared at Family Night, our theme this year is Don't just reach for the stars... BE ONE ! The first month of school your students were superstars! The students (and teachers) have been busy setting up expectations in their classrooms, building relationships, and learning! It's been wonderful to see and celebrate. Each student is learning and practicing Second Step skills daily. As we finish up practicing our listening skills this week, we continue into October with the following skills encouraged schoolwide: Focusing Attention Using Self-Talk Being Assertive Empathy Students additionally practice more specific skills in the classroom, and we are going to be setting some pretty high goals for how many gator grins our students earn. Green Tree is hoping to earn 10,000 golden gator grins by winter break! While it's going to take some work, we all believe we can meet that goal! One way to know how your students are doing