- Hello Iron Lake students and staff.
I am Turbo Master Re-Reader.
My super power is re-reading.
When you re-read a text, it helps you understand
what you read, recognize more words,
figure out the meaning of hard words,
and find information you did not notice the first time.
Let's practice doing some re-reading together.
Here is a short article about Presidents' Day.
That was the reason we didn't have
to go to school yesterday.
What is Presidents' Day?
Even if you have never heard of it, maybe you can guess.
It is a holiday in honor
of the Presidents of the United States.
Presidents' Day began as George Washington's birthday.
George Washington was born on February 22nd.
After he died, people started to honor him on that day.
Then, the United States made his birthday
a national holiday.
National means for the whole country.
Later on, the government changed the date of the holiday.
Washington's birthday would be celebrated
on the third Monday of February.
The government wanted the day to come after a weekend.
After that, people used the day to honor
other presidents too.
Now, many have stopped calling it Washington's birthday.
Instead, they call it Presidents' Day.
Now, let's re-read the passage to see if you know
more details after the first reading.
Presidents' Day began as George Washington's birthday.
George Washington was born on February 22nd.
After he died, people started to honor him on that day.
Then, the United States made his birthday
a national holiday.
National means for the whole country.
Later on, the government changed the date of the holiday.
Washington's birthday would be celebrated
on the third Monday of February.
The government wanted the day to come after a weekend.
After that, people used the day to honor
other presidents too.
Now, many have stopped calling it Washington's birthday.
Instead, they call it Presidents' Day.
Now, turn and tell a neighbor a fact you discovered
on the second reading of the text.
When I re-read the passage, I found out
that when the government changed the day
Washington's birthday was celebrated,
people started celebrating our other presidents as well.
What did you read?
(footsteps thudding)
- Hey, Turbo Master Re-Reader,
can you remind us again,
how many minutes do they need to read before February 22nd?
- Remember, keep on reading to reach a goal of 400 minutes.
You have three days left to reach your goal.
When you read, don't forget to be a super re-reader, too.
- Oh, awesome, thank you, Turbo Super Re-Reader
for joining us today.
- You are welcome, but now I must go.
- Oh, so much fun.
Now we're gonna talk about emotion management.
Oh, we've been working so hard on learning
about emotion management, because everyone
feels uncomfortable feelings at some time.
And we wanna be able to keep ourselves
from not being respectful to others
because we're having strong uncomfortable feelings.
So, we know we need to stop ourselves when we're feeling
that uncomfortable feeling.
We need to name our feeling,
and then we need to use a calm down strategy.
Well, we've already learned how to belly breathe,
we've learned counting,
and this week we're gonna focus on using positive self-talk.
Do you know what's interesting about positive self-talk,
Easton and Hans? - Mm-hmm.
- We already learned about this.
Do you remember way back in October,
when we learned about skills for learning,
about how to be listeners and use our attento-scopes,
and being assertive?
Well, we also talked about using positive self-talk.
And I'll bet ya some of you might have thought about,
well, I could use positive self-talk to help me calm down
when I'm feeling a strong uncomfortable feeling.
So, that's what we're gonna remind ourselves of this week.
So, when we talked about using self-talk,
we learned it to also help us be ready to learn.
So, like telling ourselves to focus, or ignore distractions.
We also learned that it helps us stay on task
and focus our attention.
We can use self-talk either quietly,
just kinda whispering it to yourself,
or you can just keep it in your head, okay?
And then we practiced doing one of these.
So, I'm gonna review the positive self-talk things
that we can use.
So, instead of saying, I'm not good at this,
we can say, what am I missing?
Or instead of saying, I'm awesome at this,
I'm on the right track.
All of these things on this chart
are really great self-talk ideas.
But now we want to think about when we're feeling
that strong uncomfortable feeling,
how do we use positive self-talk?
Well, positive means the opposite of negative.
So, negative is like, oh, I'm grumpy and mad.
I feel bad about things.
Whereas positive is, I see what could be
and how I can make it better.
It's much calmer, it's happier.
So, when you are feeling a strong uncomfortable feeling,
positive self-talk might sound like,
Mrs. Mueller, it's going to be okay.
You are going to be okay right now.
Or sometimes when you have a situation with a friend
that's making you feel angry,
you could use positive self-talk and say,
I'm gonna go try something different.
Maybe I'm gonna go away from my friend right now
and try something different.
Those are two examples of positive self-talk.
So, the rest of this week we're gonna practice
and learn more about positive self-talk
because it is the third calm down strategy
we are going to learn.
- Lunch today, choice one is sausage, egg,
and cheese breakfast bagel sandwich.
Choice two is mac and cheese sticks.
Sides are sweet corn, bell pepper strips,
grapes, and peaches.
- Happy birthday to Sean, who's turning 11,
and me, who's turning 11.
- That's Easton M.!
(laughing)
- And don't forget to get your birthday pins
on your orange tray.
- You gonna do that when you're done
with morning announcements?
- Yeah. - Yeah, that's a good idea.
All right, hey, let's have a great day
being a Bear everywhere.
Respectful, responsible, and ready.
One, two, three,
- [All] Go Bears!
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