Leadership Day

Our FES Student Lighthouse Team led educators visiting our school on Leadership Day around the campus, showing them how we incorporate Leader in Me into our daily life at school. Here, they are showing them the front atrium where the 7 Habits are hanging on all sides.

Types of Communication

3rd Grade students spend the year focusing on Conflict Resolution. Often, conflicts arise without us intending for them to happen and without us understanding why.

We spend time learning about different types of communication - passive, aggressive, and assertive. These students are thinking through different ways to respond to a situation.

I Love These People!

FES has the #1 Custodial Staff!

Pictured with our principal and one of our assistant principals, the custodial staff shines their light!

Every Christmas, this group of fabulous ladies and gentlemen select a few students to adopt for Christmas. They make me smile every time I talk to them!

Good School Habits

Attendance Small Group

At the elementary level, it might be thought that students have no control over whether or not they get to school on time or even come to school at all. While that may be true sometimes, it is not true all the time.

Students in our attendance small group took time to learn what they can do to help get to school on time each day possible. 

Play-Doh?

Who would have ever thought Play-Doh could be such a powerful motivator?

When we read A Walk in the Rain with a Brain, we learned that our brains learn best when we play. So, I decided to leave a few minutes at the end of each lesson for play. The class earns that play time by listening carefully and helping us get through our lesson with enough time left to play. 

They love it!

My Brain is Unique!

This is one of my favorite books to read with students at the beginning of the school year!

After we spend some time learning about the brain and how each person's brain is made just for them, students imagine what their brain looks like and draw a picture.

Then, students identify three things their brain is already pretty good at doing. 

After a discussion about how what we say to ourselves really does matter, students write down three things they can say to themselves during a test to help them feel more confident. 

Meet the Counselor Lesson

Welcome Back!

Over the past two weeks, 2nd Grade and new students to Fairhope Elementary met their school counselor, while 3rd Grade and returning students refreshed what they already knew about their school counselor.

Meet the Counselor Lesson Plan

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Meet the Counselor Presentation

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