MANN MUSTANG PBIS BLOG

End of Year Celebration

2011-05-24T19:35:00.000-07:00

The Last Mustang Motto Day will be held on Wednesday 5/25.

The theme will be Mann-A-Palloza, an all school dance party!!!

Where: On the blacktop and primary playground with healthy snacks
Who: All Mann Students
When: K-2 @ 12:30-12:55 & 3-5 @ 1:05-1:30
Why: To celebrate Mann Mustangs for a job well done this year

Thanks you for supporting PBIS this year. We have made progress addressing the social and emotional need of our students more so than ever before. Staff and students have become more vested in the PBIS program and demonstrating the 3 B's daily. We hope that the character traits that we've reinforced throughout the year have carried over at home and in the community. Have a great summer!!

Walk'n Right

2011-04-18T19:11:00.000-07:00

Mann Mustangs-

As we enter the home stretch of the school year, lets reinforce the Mustang Motto, specifically HALLWAY BEHAVIOR:

WHO: Every homeroom

WHAT: When homerooms are caught 'Walk'n Right' in the halls, other teachers and staff will take the time to acknowledge their behavior by giving their class a 'Big Walk'n Right' Horseshoe Hooray.

Once a homeroom receives 10 HS's, they can have a class celebration, acknowledgment during morning announcements and the teacher will receive a prize too!!

They will decide as a homeroom what their reward/incentive should be.

WHEN : Any time a teacher or staff member catches a homeroom Walk'n Right!!

WHY : To reinforce the appropriate hallway behavior

According to the behavior matrix (the gold Mustang Motto behavior outline posted in your classroom) Walkin' Right includes:

Be Respectful

silent voices
personal space
hands, feet, and objects to self

Be Responsible

Keep it neat, single file line
Stay to the right
Keep our school clean

Be Compassionate

Silent Hello
Smile
Let others pass
Say please and thank you

FEBRUARY FLIP FLOP

2011-02-18T11:44:00.000-08:00

4th grade teacher, Mr. Hayward with future students in 3rd grade

February Flip Flop was a success!! The teachers bravely ventured into unfamiliar territory. The kids had a blast working with their mystery teachers! A big thanks to the teachers for stepping out of their comfort zones and into the shoes of their fellow comrades!

4th grade teacher, Mr. Reynolds in kindergarten

1st grade teacher, Mr. Kaegi, in 4th grade

Kindergarten Teacher, Ms. Beljung in 4th grade

1st Grade teacher, Ms. Carins with future kindergarten students!

4th grade teacher, Mrs. Diviacch in 1st grade!

FEBRUARY FLIP FLOP

2011-02-14T07:32:00.000-08:00

MUSTANG MOTTO DAY - THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17th

FEBRUARY FLIP FLOP

This month we're flipping it up!! It's a little too cold to wear flip flops so we're asking our teachers to 'flip flop'. Thursday 2/17, each teacher will trade places with another teacher in a different grade level and present an activity or lesson to their "new" class. This will require a lot of creativity and bravery as our intermediate grade teachers venture into the world of primary grades!! The students will be pleasantly surprised and should have a ball. We know the students are ready......teachers are YOU ready?

The horseshoe hooray store will be open as well.

Parents remember to reinforce the 3 B's at home and in the community, here's a few examples generated by 3rd graders:

Encouraging your child to pitch in and help
Listen to your parents, don't talk back
Assign household chores and duties to instill a sense of responsibity
Emphasize the importance of being considerate of others
Use "fair fighting' rules: Use "I" messages, walk away to calm down, be willing to compromise
Volunteer at the animal shelter
Don't liter
Help your neighbors
Donate unwanted toys and clothes
Don't waste paper

SNOWFLAKES and HOT COCOA

2011-01-13T06:35:00.000-08:00

MUSTANG MOTTO DAY WILL BE 1/19/2011:
HOT COCOA and SNOWFLAKES
*HSH Store will NOT be open on MMD 1/19. The date for January will be announced soon.

Welcome 2011....in December we did the Cha-Cha Slide into the new year!! It was big fun and ALL of the students and staff had a blast. Now lets settle in for the cold winter months, sip hot cocoa and make snowflakes (as if we need more!!). This is the one of the staff's, parents' and student's favorite celebration of the year.

Who: Each entire grade gathers to socialize, enjoy hot chocolate and cut out snowflakes which are then hung around the building. (We use Mann's recycled paper.)
When: Wednesday morning, January 19th
Where: cafeteria
Why: Celebrating respect, responsibility & compassion shown by students

Here is the schedule:

8:15-8:45 - 2nd grade

8:45-9:15 - 1st grade
9:15-9:45 - kindergarten
9:45-10:10 - 5th grade
10:10-10:35 - 3rd grade
10:35-11:00 - 4th grade

Thanks to Carrie Bankes and parents volunteers who make this celebration a success. As a parent if you're interested in volunteering to help distribute hot cocoa and/or help cut and hang snowflakes please contact me: mcollins@op97.org or Carrie Bankes: carrie@bankes.us

December Celebrations

2010-12-10T10:38:00.000-08:00

The next PBIS all school celebration will be:
Thursday, December 16th - The Cha Cha Slide & Staff Appreciation Luncheon!!!

Mann mustangs will slide their way into 2011!!! At 2:20pm, the Cha Cha Slide will play over the intercom and over 500 students and staff members will drop everything ans dance!! The first trimester is over and we've had great success, academically and socially. Mustangs are working hard to make good choices and earn horse shoe hoorays! Students and staff alike value the importance of positive reinforcement of desired behaviors. It helps create a positive and healthy culture within the school.

As we make plans for winter break and begin thinking about our new year's resolutions, encourage your child to incorporate the 3 B's into their resolutions. Examples for home:

Respectful at home by following directions
Responsible: cleaning up their toys, completing chores, and managing their behavior
Compassionate: using kind words with siblings and family, helping out when needed

By reinforcing these skills at home, they will definitely generalize to school, group or team activities and in the community.

Have a Great Winter Break!!!

NOVEMBER

2010-11-10T10:57:00.000-08:00

HELLO MANN MUSTANGS

THE NEXT ALL SCHOOL CELEBRATION WILL BE:
BOARD GAME BONANZA!!!

11/22: All Kindergarten and 1st graders
11/23: 2-5th graders

Mustangs can bring their favorite board game to school. There will be a designated time set aside for your child to play their board games with their classmates. This is just another way to celebrate the 3 B's:

Be Respectful
Be Responsible
Be Compassionate

Please send you child to school with their favorite board game as we acknowledge and reinforce their good behavior!!

Thanks for your support

September PBIS Update

2010-10-19T19:08:00.000-07:00

The next all school celebration:

October 28 - Gobblin' Good Behavior

Halloween themed bingo announced over the intercom

Our first Mustang Motto Day of the school year was awesome!! Over 500 students and staff "Melted into the Mustang Motto". Students and staff enjoyed popsicles on the blacktop .The weather was beautiful and the students and staff truly enjoyed the celebration. Grades 2-5 also redeemed hundreds of horse shoe hoorays at the HSH store. We are off to a great start this year!!

Thanks to PTO for sponsoring the popsicles. Also a big thanks goes out to our PBIS parent, Carrie Bankes, for recruiting parent volunteers to make the day a true success. Thank you: Julie Klein for the pictures, Steven Perkins and Barb Kopka for manning the popsicles and Karen Anderson for working the horse shoe hooray store!!!

All School Celebrations are our way of acknowledging the 3's: Respect, Responsibility and Compassion. The students of Mann School are doing a great job making good choices and following the Mustang Motto throughout the school!!! Hip.. Hip.. Hooray

Thanks for your support
PBIS team

BACK TO SCHOOL

2010-09-07T12:33:00.001-07:00

Welcome Back Mann Mustangs
1st Mustang Motto Day of the Year: Thursday 9/23

We have another exciting year ahead of us. We've already had the BACK TO SCHOOL KICKOFF...It was a blast!! We introduced new staff, reviewed universal school expectations, and illustrated a 'cool tool' lesson regarding appropriate hallway behavior "Walkin' Right". The students and staff are excited about creating a positive and pro-social environment.
September 23rd will be the first All School Celebration. We will have cool tool lessons for staff to role play and illustrate appropriate behaviors throughout the school (i.e. hallways, classrooms, bathrooms, and playground). Then students and staff will have an afternoon celebration of Popsicles on the blacktop, as we "MELT INTO THE MUSTANG MOTTO".

We are kicking the year off with a PBIS POSTER CONTEST!!! Poster Contest- Mann Mustangs Grades 1st-5th

We are asking for student artists to create a PBIS drawing that will be used as the PBIS poster for their grade level classrooms for the year. Please encourage your child to think about the 3B's and how to illustrate them through their own creativity. The poster must include the 3Bs (Be Respectful, Be Responsible, Be Compassionate).

1st graders: We will provide a template for your child to color and express their creativity if needed

Similar to the year book contest. Each classroom will vote on the best drawing from their room. Then each grade level will vote on the best drawing (from each classroom) to represent the PBIS poster for their grade level. The winning posters enlarged and laminated to posted in the classrooms.

ALL POSTERS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED TO THEIR CLASSROOM TEACHER NO LATER THAN 9/17. WINNERS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON 9/23
*Please use paper with a white background.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact me, mcollins@op97.org or the classroom teacher.

Thanks,
Monica Collins
PBIS Internal Coach