School Family
Name a classroom structure of a school family
What is Friends and Family board, safekeeper, visual rules and routines, helpful board, brain smart start, safe place, rituals, job board, celebration center, we care center
My Job is to keep you safe
Who is the safekeeper
What do we do everyday and all day that are procedures to building an essential School Family from arrival to departure time
The 4 Brain Smart Start consists of four activities
What are unite, disengage stress, activity to connect, activity to commit
Place where children are directed to go when sad, upset, scared, etc.
What is the Safe Place
Used when someone is sick or having difficulty during the day
How does the safekeeper introduce safety at the beginning of the school year
What is to define what a felt sense of safety would be like for all students, what will it look like, sound like and feel like.
Used to regulate behavior and keep sanity in the classroom
What are rules
This activity unites children
What is a good morning song
Does the adult go with the child to the safe place
What is yes in the beginning they do to go over ALL the steps of the safe place to help descalate the situation and calm the child, later in the year after the children know the steps they may do this on their own
Everyone in the classroom is referred to as
What is my job is to keep you safe at school, your job is going to be to help me keep it safe
Used to keep procedure and predictability for children and adults in the classroom
What are routines
This activity aids in disengaging stress, name the four types of these
What are breathing techniques: pretzel, drain, balloon, STAR
This is given to a child who appears upset to remind them they can go to the safe place to do breathing activities when they get there while waiting for the adult
What is a safe place pass
These should be displayed and reviewed during every group time, transition, throughout the day
What are visual rules
We teach this skill to our children to help them know how to keep our school family safe
What is being helpful
Difference between rules and routines
What are rules allow the child to know what is expected of them during the different settings at school, routines are established for children to know what is going to be done throughout the school day
Name an activity to use to connect with one another
What are I Love You Rituals: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, My School Family Song, etc
Done in groups of two
Ways to set up a safe place area
What are the pocket charts, pillows, fidgets, paper and pencils, books (calm down tools), breathing tools, feeling tools, I choose tools
This is your Conscious Discipline circle time
What is Brain Smart Start
Describe how to set up your safekeeper/commitment ritual and how is it used
What is using photos, craftsticks, stand up people, a box with the safe keeper promise on it. Talk about and display a picture of the commitment that we are going to work toward for the day and how we will commit to it
This is visually hung up at large group and a classroom job done throughout the day so children establish the routine of the classroom
What is a schedule
Benefits of a Brain Smart Start
What is organization, focused attention, positive internal state, connections with others, activated prefrontal lobe, bringing impulse control, empathy, problem solving skills
5 steps to the safe place discussion area in order (pocket chart)
What are I Am, I Calm, I Feel, I Choose, I Solve