Green Tree Elementary School Family Updates

Hello Green Tree Families! Our students and staff had a wonderful, busy month! The Marco's fundraiser was a huge success earlier this month, as well as Trunk or Treat at the end of the month. The ABC Parent group shared that this year was our biggest turnout. We had 21 decorated trunks and 115 children! There were so many amazing trunks and costumes, and we thank you for your creativity!  Here are just a few of the wonderfully decorated trunks that showed up this year!  See our facebook page for more photos! This month, our schoolwide theme is empathy. In our morning announcements and school assembly, we will be reminding students to have empathy, identify their own and others’ feelings, notice and respect same and different feelings, and show compassion. Compassion involves saying kind words or doing something helpful to show you care how another person feels. When students can identify, understand, and respond in a caring way to how someone else is feeling, it helps c...

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...