JFG celebrated SEL DAY! We engaged in a virtual read aloud, school wide mindfulness, individual homeroom activities, and concluded with peer partnerships across grade levels discussing how to spend the remainder of the school year making positive memories! #JustFocusonGrowing
Today JFG students and staff celebrated raising $11,830.70 through the Kids Heart Challenge! We enjoyed a pj day, swamped Ms. Farinella with silly string, and turned up the music for a JFG dance party! The conga line called for a smooth dismissal!
Today JFG students and staff celebrated raising $11,830.70 through the Kids Heart Challenge! We enjoyed a pj day, swamped Ms. Farinella with silly string, and turned up the music for a JFG dance party! The conga line called for a smooth dismissal!
JFG Families ROCK! Thank you for making our walls "beat" with a family project that brought positive messages, kindness, love, and encouragement to our home!
As usual, smiles and excitement today at JFG! Shine bright, be confident, be brave! Nothing will stop us now! #JustFocusonGrowing
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THANK YOU JFG Families for voting to stock up the teachers' lounge! Your commitment to support our teachers and staff does not go unnoticed! TOGETHER we will continue to do great things! #cardmyyardparamus #konaiceparamus #stockthelounge #treats #snacks #paramus #twpofwashington
JFG Kindergarteners engaged in a 100 day of school STEM experience! Our students worked together in small groups, collaborating and having conversations to achieve a successful outcome.
JFG 1st graders are on their way to becoming coping skills experts! They discussed helpful thinking and decorated helpful thinking (or positive affirmation) cards for their desks to talk to their brains each and every day!
Check out these highlights from the JFG School Counseling Department honoring National School Counseling Week!
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HAPPY 100TH DAY OF SCHOOL!
Happy National School Counseling Week! Thank you
@JFGCounselingEW Emily Williams for supporting the social and emotional wellness of every student and staff member at JFG! Stay tuned for highlights that support we are definitely, "Better Together!" @ASCAtweets
Day 2 of #NSCW2022, another opportunity to advocate! School Counselors provide SODAS! Cup with straw @JFGelementary
@ASCAtweets -Strategies & coping skills instruction, Open doors for collaboration, Data analysis, Academic, SEL & career awareness skills, Support & referrals!
Kicking off #NSCW22 @JFGelementary - School Counselor's provide PENS - Provide classroom SEL lessons, Evaluate student needs & growth, Network with staff, families & community, Support student acquisition of strategies & coping skills
At the beginning of each month we challenge our staff members to focus on their mental health and wellness. Ms. Waszkielewicz was January's wellness winner! The JFG staff was challenged to meditate or journal 5 times throughout the month!
Congratulations Anthony and Evelyn for winning the WWRSD has heART contest! Anthony and Evelyn were recognized during the reception last night. Their artwork represented UNITY and will be on display at the Westwood Art Gallery. So proud of you both and let your creativity soar!
JFG third-graders celebrate their nonfiction writing the best way they know how...with their peers! Post-it compliments from friends offered a true focus on their strengths to become better writers!
We kicked off The Great Kindness Challenge and transformed JFG into K.I.N.D Headquarters! Our JFG Cardinals were on a mission - start completing as many acts of kindness on the GKC checklist as they can! We have a week of missions ahead and we know they can do it!
Just a tiny example of what can happen when a school community sticks together! Challenges can only make us stronger! Looking forward to celebrating the best of 100 days and many more to come! #oneproudprincipal
Our 5th Graders learning all about the brain - our thinking brain, amygdala & hippocampus & how these all play a role in how we react & handle our big emotions. We used our hands to model how the parts work with each other & what happens if we "flip our lid."
