Welcome Back!

Hello and Welcome Back/To Wheelock!  What a quick summer we had, I hope everyone enjoyed it!  It has been so fun to see all the students back again and meet lots of new students as well.  I enjoy utilizing this website to share some information about what we work on as a school to maintain a pro-social and positive school environment.  Today I made new 'expected' and 'unexpected' visuals (Thumbs up or Thumbs down) for teachers to have on their lanyards.  This is the same language taken from the social thinking curriculum to help create a universal approach to let the students know whether their behavior is expected in a certain situation.  This language was used at Wheelock last year and was well taught throughout Memorial School as well.  Soon, Mrs. Alberts (the Speech Language pathologist) and I will be conducting 'Social Thinking' lessons with all the second and third grade classes about being 'social detectives', giving others good/comfortable thoughts by using expected behavior and learning coping strategies taught through the 'Zones of Regulation' (see website section).  Stay tuned for more information about these lessons!

I hope to be a resource for any of the families here at Wheelock who may have a student who needs some help/support with worries, frustrations, anger, social skills, teasing etc.  I look forward to meeting and/or seeing many of you again this year!