Social Emotional Learning

Division 4 was really lucky to have some help from Ms. Lia at the very beginning of the year teach us some great strategies for helping us to develop our self-regulation strategies.  As adults we do this all time and we're not always aware that we are using strategies that we've developed on our own.  As educators, we now feels it's incredibly important to help our students learn to self-regulate (be in charge of their brains, bodies, and emotions) throughout the school day.  At school, all staff members are working hard to develop a common language about social-emotional learning (SEL), so you might hear your child talking about expected and unexpected behaviours, or the size of the problem.  Or you might hear your child talk about the zones: blue, green, yellow, and red.  Being in the blue zone might be feeling tired, sick, sad, etc.  Green is the optimal zone for classroom learning where one is focussed and calm.  Yellow is a zone where one could be overly excited and red could be where you feel angry or frustrated  its important to remember that its not bad to be in the red or yellow zone  sometimes its absolutely essential that we are in those zones.  Every classroom already has many strategies in place to help kids with their own learning.  We are working on a common language as our school does so much learning together as a community.