Green Tree Elementary School Family Updates

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!  O...

Principal Jennifer Potter Welcome back to all of our families, new and returning! We hope you have had a wonderful summer. With the first week down, the students are finally out of shock and are officially ready to be Green Tree superstars this year! A couple changes have taken place since last year... as you've probably noticed by the new person sending this family communication. My name is Jennifer Potter, and I am very excited to begin my first year as principal at Green Tree Elementary School. The staff truly is one of the hardest working group of teachers I have had the pleasure to work with, and the students are already keeping me positively challenged most moments of the day. I have had homework every night so far, trying to find answers to questions such as "how do I keep shoelaces tied tight enough to survive kindergarten?" to "how do I create a profile in Minecraft?" I do not have the easy answers for either of these questions in case yo...