Hakuna Matata

As part of her internship program, Ms. Sidra Tareen, our HGSE guidance intern, started a blog to house her learning as well as strategies and tips for managing worries. Please check it out and subscribe to it for updates.

Here is the link to: Hakuna Matata Blog

Buddy Bench

We will be starting our grade 1 guidance lessons in the next few weeks featuring the heart-breaking and heart-warming book "The Invisible Boy" by Trudy Ludwig.  

This year we are going to explore this idea as well because "Sometimes, it's good to have a buddy."

Buddy bench a big hit at Willowgrove School
Sometimes, it's good to have a buddy.Full story: http://www.cbc.ca/1.3505066via Leisha Grebinski & #SaskatoonMorning
Posted by CBC Saskatoon on Thursday, March 24, 2016

The Listening Walk by Paul Showers

On the Topic of Love

This is one of my favorite books on parenting. Children (and people in general) are described as having "love tanks". For our teaching and training to be effective, our children needs their love tank nice and full. We receive and give love in different ways. According to Gary Chapman and Ross Campbell, we usually have a primary and secondary love languages. They are as follows:

Physical Touch
Words of Affirmation
Quality Time
Gifts
Acts of Services.

Knowing our children's primary and secondary love languages will have us be more effective in helping them feel loved unconditionally. I hope to share more about each of these in a series of videos in the near future.

Understanding Life in High School

If you have a child in high school, or even middle school; this is a must read.

Boys, Girls & Other Hazardous Materials

There is also an updated Queen Bee and Wannabes; as well as Queen Bee Moms and Kingpin Dads.

The Curious Garden

Saw this at the Harvard Coop - very cute book.

Amazon description

Have You Filled a Bucket Today?

A class project by Mrs. Skaar's 2nd Grade Class via Lisa Thumann. I think I Care Cat is going to read this book to our students this year~