KLENK HAS COOL CHARACTER
August/September
RESPECT

What is Respect: The attitude of caring about people and treating them with dignity. Respect can be demonstrated towards people, property, ideas, and the environment.

Why Practice It? Without respect, we would have confusion. People would treat each other rudely and violate each other’s privacy and rights. Respect helps people to feel valued.

Suggested Activities:
· Give children paper, crayons and markers to create a book or signs with environmental rules that should be respected.
· Brainstorm some ideas and words that capture the meaning of respect. Use these words to create lyrics to a respect song.
· Read books about respect.
· Work as a group or have students work in small groups to discuss some meanings for respect. Then assign groups a letter from the word respect. Ask them to think of a word that begins with that letter that could somehow be connected with the meaning of respect. Then use the letters as an acronym for something that promotes respect.
· Start your own classroom respect patrol. Each day, assign a child to act as the respect recorder. This child could find at least one sign of respectful behavior that they would tell the rest of the class about at the end of the day.
· Have students role play respectful situations.

Suggested Book List:
· Stanislaus Mouse Learns How to Fly, by Joe Gornall
· Screen of Frogs, by Shelia Hamanaka
· Branigan’s Cat and the Halloween Ghost, by Steven Kroll
· Horton Hatches the Egg, by Dr. Seuss
· Only Fiona, by Beverly Keller
· Story of a Dolphin, by Katherine Shelley Orr
· Gopher Takes Heart, by Virginia Scribner
· Stay Away From Simon, by Carol Carrick

The counseling program is vital to the elementary school because it provides guidance contact in a systematic way to all students. It is directed toward educational guidance with emphasis upon direct contact with parents, students, and educational staff.

The W.H.O. Program (We Help Ourselves) is an anti-victimization program offered in kindergarten and second grade.

The Second Step Program teaches empathy, impulse control, and anger management in pre-kindergarten through fifth grades.

The Sooper Puppy Program is an early childhood drug prevention program presented to first graders.

The I-Care-Cat Program teaches responsible behavior, and is presented to pre-kindergarten through fifth graders.

The Guidance Counselor...
*helps students to develop self-understanding and self-awareness;
*promotes positive attitudes and choices;
*counsels with students/parents regarding student choices in the educational and social areas of the student's life;
*provides group guidance activities ;
*provides referral information for parents to community agencies and/or private practitioners;
*assists teachers in working with students with special needs;
*consults with teachers, administrators, and parents regarding special needs of students.

Students may seek counseling in the following ways:
*self-referral
*teacher referral
*administrative referral
*parent referral
*referral by any other concerned person

Do's and Don'ts...
*Do ask your child's teacher about the kinds of help that you as a parent can provide.
*Do encourage a child to restate what a mathematical word problem is all about. Putting it in the child's own words will help clarify it.
*Do make sure that "home" math has a noticeable problem-solving flavor. It should contain a challenge or question that must be answered.
*Do use objects that your child can touch, handle, and move. These things are called manipulatives.
*Do find out what kind of mistakes your child makes in arithmetic.
*Do reward your child with praise for the correct answers.
*Don't tell your child that some people are "no good" in math.
*Don't think that girls aren't as good in math as boys.

Math Essentials...
*Understanding. The child must understand the steps involved in working and solving math problems.
*Practice. This means practicing the base skills - addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, and decimals.
*Seeing Patterns. Children need to see patterns and regularity in math and ways of organizing mathematical information.

Pointers...
*Provide a place. It's important for a child to have a good place to write.
*Have the materials. Provide plenty of paper-lined and unlined-and things to write with, including pencils, pens, and crayons.
*Allow time. Help your child spend time thinking about a writing project or exercise.
*Do respond. Do respond to the ideas your child expresses verbally or in writing.
*Don't you write it! Don't write a paper for your child that will be turned in as his/her work.
*Praise. Take a positive approach and say something good about your child's writing.
Things To Do...
*Make it real. Perhaps your child would enjoy corresponding with a pen pal.
*Suggest note-taking.
*Brainstorm.
*Encourage keeping a journal.
*Write together.
*Use games. Try crossword puzzles, word games, anagrams, cryptograms designed especially for children.
*Suggest making list. It's good practice to make lists of things to do, schoolwork, dates for tests, social events, and other reminders.
*Encourage copying. Encourage copying favorite songs, poems or quotations from books.

Studying...
*Your children need a place to study. It can be a desk in a bedroom or the kitchen table. But it must be fairly quiet with good light.
*Children also need a time for studying. Help your child create schedules. These schedules should be flexible enough to allow trade-offs and shifts when necessary.
*Previewing material. Encourage children to begin an assignment by previewing the material.
*Reading and thinking. When reading the chapter, they should try to fit details into their "mental map." This is a time to use strategies such as- self-talk, positive images, and questions.
*Taking notes. Children can't remember everything they read, it would help them to take notes of the main points.
*Self-Testing. Children should test themselves to see what they know and don't know.
*Preparing for Tests. Encourage your children to prepare for tests by spacing studying over days or weeks.

Things to DO...
*Read aloud.
*Teach alphabet letters.
*Provide a place to read.
*Provide materials. Have plenty of paper, pencils, chalkboards, and crayons for your child to use for drawing and writing.
*Provide records and tapes.
*Help your child to relate educational television programs to other situations. Example, if the show focuses on the letter "B", relate it to other things that start with that letter.
*Use computers.
*Make a scrapbook.
*Visit the library.
*Have a reading hour.
*Stay involved.

Children who read well usually have parents that have...
*Read aloud to them
*Talk to them about their ideas and experiences
*Take them places
*Let them watch television but limit it
*Take an interest in their reading progress

Do's and Don'ts...
*Don't be too anxious about a child's test scores. Too much emphasis on this can upset a child.
*Do encourage children. Praise them for the things they do well.
*Don't judge a child on the basis of a single test score. Test scores are not a perfect measure of what a child can do.
*Do meet with your child's teacher as often as possible to discuss his/her progress.
*Do make sure your child attends school regularly.
*Do provide a quiet, comfortable place for studying at home.
*Do make sure that your child is well rested on school days and especially the day of a test.
*Do give your child a well rounded diet. A healthy body leads to a healthy, active mind.
*Do provide books and magazines for your child to read at home.