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Home : Park Elementary Featured

Second Step Lessons Support Our Students

December 28, 2022 By Hutch Tiger

By Mary Getzke, Licensed School Counselor, Park Elementary

Education is about providing learning opportunities to develop the whole child.  Academics are important but so are the soft skills, such as cooperating with others and having a good work ethic. The Hutchinson school district uses a curriculum called Second Step. These lessons provide our children with opportunities to learn and practice their social and emotional skills.

For the past month at Park Elementary, students have been learning how to handle their strong emotions along with addressing recurring situations that cause them stress.  Students learned that the emotional and logical part of our brain needs to be balanced to make positive decisions.  When we are too overwhelmed, our feelings can influence our thoughts, which leads to how we act.  When we struggle to self regulate our emotions, it can prevent us from making positive choices.  We may say or do things that make other people uncomfortable around us or hurt our relationships with them.

In our Second Step Lessons, we discuss what stress and strong emotions may look like in others.  This helps students learn to have patience and potentially get help for someone who is feeling they have more than they can handle.  We also worked on learning to recognize our own body’s warning signs when we are feeling overwhelmed with strong emotions.  When we recognize our body’s warning signs, it can be a signal to us to use some strategies to calm ourselves down before making potentially poor decisions.

In the past few years, we have all had to deal with some social isolation.  For our children, this period of time may have them lagging in social skills and working well with others.  As a community, we can help our children by giving them good eye contact when we talk to them.  Show them good listening skills by leaning in and really concentrate on what they are trying to express.  We can support them to understand the importance of controlling their impulsive behaviors and be more aware of how their actions may affect others around them.  When we see children choosing good social skills such as patience, being respectful, kind, and responsible, let’s all make the effort to tell them we appreciate the good decision they made.  Giving our children encouraging affirmation will motivate them to continue to make positive behavior choices.

It has been a pleasure to have this opportunity to teach these important social and emotional lessons to our students. When children learn to regulate their emotions this helps them to become better problem solvers, develop better self confidence, and build stronger relationships with others.  Holidays, along with long winter days, can be stressful for all of us. Often we do not know what someone else is going through or feeling.  Remember to be kind to others and yourself, take a deep breath, and do something that brings you happiness.  You are worth it!

 

 

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Get to know the New Staff

August 25, 2022 By Alicia Roepke

Read the article to learn more about the new staff at Park Elementary.

https://www.smore.com/app/pages/preview/xk9yr

 

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Picture Day

July 27, 2022 By Alicia Roepke

​Say cheese! Picture day is September 15th.

See the flyer for instructions on how to view your child’s picture and order prints.

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School Meal Prices for the 2022-23 School Year

June 20, 2022 By Hutch Tiger

Click here to view the 2022-23

http://www.isd423.org/district/servicesresources/nutrition-program/meal-prices/

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Park Elementary

June 13, 2022 By Alicia Roepke

Construction is underway! Click here for more pictures; past and present.

 

 

 

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5th Grade Science

September 14, 2021 By Alicia Roepke

Science with Mr. Langins

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Wednesdays are Meal Pick up Day!

June 14, 2021 By Hutch Tiger

Not sure if you ordered or can’t pick up? Call Kristin at 320-234-2603

Thank you for your support!

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Benefits of Closed Captioning

March 10, 2021 By Hutch Tiger

By Dan Olberg, Principal, Park Elementary

I think I can speak for all of us that getting children to stop watching TV or streaming content can be a struggle sometimes. With all the research about screen time, parents are very aware of the damage too much TV and video time has on children. Most of the research I have read suggests that children who have more than 10 hours a week in screen time had lower achievement than those who watch less than 10 hours a week. It is surprising how quickly the minutes add up. Children in the United States are ranked number 1 in the world for the amount of time they watch TV. So how can we use this technology that children love to benefit their learning? Activate the closed captioning button! It seems so easy, but parents around the world are seeing incredible benefits from this simple act.

Parents are finding that when children watch/stream shows with the closed captioning on, their children are learning to read at an earlier age. Some parents are noticing quick results just after a few weeks of having the closed captioning activated on the TV/streaming devices in their house. When adults watch shows, our brains can tune out the closed captioning on the screen if we choose not to read it. In children, their brain is still like a sponge, picking up all that is on the screen. Their mind will see the words, hear them pronounced, and comprehend what is going on through the show without discretion. Closed captioning can help with fluency in young readers. Children have motivation to read the words quickly knowing that the words will soon disappear. It can help with word recognition for those children who have a stronger speaking vocabulary than reading vocabulary. Captioning can build the vocabulary words and definitions through quality programs. The presence of the words on the screen can help familiarize the child with print, sounds and meaning at a very young age. In essence, the characters are reading aloud the story to the child.

Having words running across the screen at times is a nuisance to many adults. Remember the days of accidentally hitting the closed captioning button only to spend the next three days trying to figure out how to change it back? The new TV’s/devices seem to make this easier for us. Most models or streaming sites have the button labeled “CC”. It seems as though all devices and streaming services have this option thanks to legislation many years ago. The children in some countries watch many reruns from the United States through closed captioning because English is not their first language. The children of Finland are some of the heaviest users of closed captioning and you should see their reading scores! Quality shows with the closed captioning activated may be the best electronic gift we could give our children – and least expensive!

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We Are In This Together!

November 25, 2020 By Alicia Roepke

Thank you, Mrs. Ovadje, for the colorful reminder!

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Walk and Bike to School day

September 11, 2020 By Alicia Roepke

Join us on Wednesday, October 5th for Walk or Bike to School Day!

Walk and bike Flyer

 

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Hutchinson, MN 55350
320-587-2854
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Park Elementary

100 Glen Street SW
Hutchinson, MN 55350
320-587-2837
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District

30 Glen Street NW
Hutchinson, MN 55350
320-587-2860
Fax: 320-587-4590
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High School

1200 Roberts Road
Hutchinson, MN 55350
320-587-2151
Fax: 320-587-8217
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West Elementary

875 School Road SW
Hutchinson, MN 55350
320-587-4470
Fax: 320-587-0735
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Tiger Elementary

805 School Road SW
Hutchinson, MN 55350
Phone: 320-587-1122
Fax: 855-574-0782

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