Beaty ECS eNews
December 14, 2018
December News
We are approaching the end of our first semester of school! The students have grown and learned so much since the school year began!
Please see information below for our parent survey. We look forward to receiving feedback as we continually seek to improve our parent partnership.
ATTENTION PARENTS OF PM SESSION STUDENTS:
Beginning January 8, 2019, our PM arrival time will be 11:50 - 12:00. Please adjust your student drop-off accordingly. Our instructional class time for our afternoon session will remain 12:00 - 3:00 PM. Thank you!
Upcoming Events
Thursday, December 20
- Winter Parties
Friday, December 21
- AM session ONLY. No PM session.
December 24 - January 6
- No school for students and teachers
- Winter Holiday
Monday, January 7, 2019
- Teacher Work Day
- NO SCHOOL for students
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
- Classes resume for all students
Parent Survey
As always, we are interested in listening to our parents as we serve our students and their families. Going forward, we will be asking all parents to take a quick survey each month as we seek additional parent feedback. This month our 3 question survey focuses on communication. Please take a moment to click the button below and share your feedback! Thank you for helping us strengthen our parent partnership and support our campus goals.
Counselor's Corner
Last month we continued our discussion on feelings and emotions. We read a story, Mouse Was Mad by Linda Urban and we learned when we are mad we can do things like count to ten, color or take a deep breathe to help us calm down and feel better. We discovered in the story that it is ok to be mad but it is never ok when we are mad to hurt others, throw things or have a tantrum. We also talked about sharing too. We read, llama llama Time to Share by Anna Dewdney and practiced using our sharing words with our friends. We learned that sharing is caring and in order to be a good friend we have to learn how to share nicely and take turns. This month we are going to talk about the importance of listening and what “whole body listening” looks like. When we come back in January after our winter break, we will celebrate College week, January 14 -18. I will send out more information regarding College week soon!
Check out these helpful online resources for Parents:
1. Emotions and Behaviors
https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/emotions/
2. Positive Parenting Tips
https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/childdevelopment/positiveparenting/
3. Parenting tips and advice- Love and Logic
https://www.loveandlogic.com/articles-advice/parents
4. 50 calm down techniques to try with kids
5. Mindfulness activities
News from the Beaty Health Hut
From Nurse Laura Case, MSN, RN, NCSN
School is a new experience for many of our students. Socialization is an important part of preschool. Learning how to interact with friends, deal with frustration and communicate needs are a challenge that many children work on throughout the early years of school. Biting is a very common behavior when a child lacks the skills to deal with these feelings. Understanding why your child bites is important for developing an effective strategy to stop the behavior. Let us look at common reasons why a child bites:
· Lack of language skills to express strong needs or feelings of anger can result in a child biting.
· Being overwhelmed or over-tired with an activity, sounds or lights can cause a child to bite.
· Experimenting to see the reaction to biting.
· A need for active play, teething or oral stimulation can elicit biting behavior.
Develop a strategy to prevent biting. The first step to prevention is looking closely your child’s activity before the bite occurred. What was your child doing? Is it always the same activity? Are they always with the same child? Who was caring for your child? Look for patterns in behavior. Here are some solutions for preventing biting:
· Distract your child with a toy or book.
· Offer your child a solution to the frustration by verbalizing their needs. Teach your child that words are an appropriate substitute for biting. Verbalizing frustration is more effective than their biting behavior.
· Help your child share by using a kitchen timer to trigger “time to share” with another child.
· Read books to your child that address biting.
When biting occurs say, “No biting, biting hurts”. Be firm, but not angry. Avoid rewarding the biting behavior with negative attention. First, address the injured child with concern and empathy. This will teach compassion and communicate to the biting child that biting behavior does not result in more attention for them. Aggressive responses like shaming, harsh punishment or biting your child back does not reduce biting behavior. In fact, it may increase the biting behavior as it increases a child’s worry and fear.
Instead, give your child alternatives to biting by saying things like, “if your friend takes your toy and wont’ return it, you can ask them to return the toy or come get me and I will help you”. After providing examples to your child, move on to other activities that help him release energy in constructive ways. Time and consistency emphasizes the message. Eventually your child will learn to replace biting with communication. For more information on biting go to https://www.zerotothree.org/resources/232-toddlers-and-biting-finding-the-right-response.
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Email: Kristen.Fislar@pisd.edu
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