Strength/Challenges
What is one of your strengths?
Anything!
Keeping something in our brain so we can use it later.
What can our brain help us with?
Executive functioning skills
What strategy can you use to keep your desk organized?
Color code, folders etc.
What pet does Ms. Shea-Michiels have?
A dog!
What is one of your challenges?
Anything!
Organizing
Putting things in their plan or in categories.
What is one thing I could do the morning before school or the night before to make sure my brain is calm in the morning?
Prepare my clothes and backpack, eat a good breakfast, get sleep.
What strategy can you use to keep your room organized?
What is Mrs. Loth's favorite football team?
the Packers!
What was one of Cookie Monsters strengths?
Really good at eating cookies (and more)
Self Checking
Reviewing our work and making sure we did it correctly.
Remember when we clogged the funnel with rocks? What did that represent?
Our brain gets jumbled when all the things we are doing are disorganized.
What strategy can you use to remember homework and tests?
Use sticky notes, use my assignment notebook and more...
What is something that Ms. Krauss loves that you can find all over her room?
Gnomes!
What was one of Cookie Monster's challenges?
Messy (and more)...
Category
What are some strategies to keep our brains from getting "clogged"?
Organization, planning, putting things in categories and more...
What strategies can I use to make sure I am on time to things?
Alarm clock, prepare ahead of time and more...
What is the Pleasant Lane School mascot?
A Falcon
Why is good to know our strengths and challenges?
Helps us understand what tools we need so we can improve.
What is Metacognition?
Having awareness of your strengths and challenges. Thinking about your thinking.
When things are messy or disorganized, what can happen to our brains?
They become messy and disorganized!
What are the 4 C's?
Clean, Customize, Categorize, Continue
What are the Pleasant Lane school colors?
Red and Black