Area 24 has a shoe bin that I will keep in a hall cupboard so that we will always know where our shoes are. We will get them out when we go to gym (or at the beginning of the day if your child needs to remove his/her boots) and we will put them back in the bag at the end of the day.
If you are able to send a pair of shoes to school for this purpose, please have a chat with your child about being responsible for his/her shoes (making sure they are in the bin every day - not on the floor somewhere) and make sure they are labelled.
As you can imagine, all the clothes needed for cold weather take a while to put on, and this cuts into our class time significantly. It's not a big problem, but if you can keep working on the zippering (and shoe tying)skills at home, that would be a big help and significantly reduce the number of zippers I have to do before we can get outside! Thanks!
November is the month for Empathy! We are focusing on this characteristic in our class and in our school. Yesterday we talked about how it would feel to walk around wearing someone else's shoes (literally). We noted that they might hurt or give us blisters if they were too small. We also noted that some shoes are not appropriate for certain activities (e.g., shoes with no grip are dangerous in gym). We also took a look at my fancy shoes and determined that they might make me feel pretty or happy, but that they sometimes stop being fun after a while because I am walking on my toes.... Kind of like a recess game that starts out fun, but then gets tiring and you don't feel like playing anymore. We're going to try to solve problems going forward by trying to imagine how the other person must feel, and figuring out what we can do to help. Try this at home!