Washington Grade School District #52

Graduation signs have been placed in front of WMS for all to see! Feel free to drive through but please hold off taking your sign until Friday!

Mental Health Wellness Tip of the Day: Find a long-term project. Now is the time to learn how to play the keyboard, put together a huge jigsaw puzzle, start a 15 hour game of Risk, paint a picture or read the Harry Potter series.

Mental Health Wellness Tip of the Day: Find something you can control. Organize your bookshelf, purge your closet, put together that furniture, group your toys. It helps to anchor and ground us when the bigger things are chaotic.

Mental Health Wellness Tip of the Day: Help others. Find ways, big and small, to give back to others. Support restaurants, offer to grocery shop or check in with elderly neighbors. Helping others gives us a sense of agency when things seem out of control.

If you see a jacket that belongs to your student at WMS please swing by the foyer and take it home. We will have this in the WMS foyer today at 1:00. Front doors are open daily until 3:00.

Mental Health Wellness Tip of the Day: Notice the good in the world, the helpers. There are a ton of stories of people sacrificing, donating, and supporting one another in miraculous ways. It is important to counter-balance the heavy information with the hopeful information.

Mental Health Wellness Tip of the Day: Limit social media and COVID conversation. Find a few trusted sources that you can check in with consistently, limit it to a few times a day, and set a time limit.

Mental Health Wellness Tip of the Day: Give yourself a break. We are doing too many things in this moment, under fear and stress. This does not make a formula for excellence. There is no precedent for this and we are all doing our best in an impossible situation.

Good Morning and Happy Friday! Today is a great day to grab a book, a blanket and read by the window! Checkout this video from our District Library Team! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TwvDE1XItoCgEGYKrThgJzTQ8j4PDQUr/view?usp=sharing

Mental Health Wellness Tip of the Day Focus on safety. We can get wrapped up in meeting expectations in all domains. Focus on strengthening connections through play, through books and via verbal reassurances that you will be there for them in this time.

Mental Health Wellness Tip of the Day Expect behavioral issues. We are all struggling with disruption in routine, none more than children, who rely on routines constructed by others to make them feel safe and to know what comes next. Focus on emotional connection.

Mental Health Wellness Tip of the Day Everyone find their own retreat space. You can make this place cozy by using blankets, pillows, cushions, scarves, beanbags, tents and forts. Even when we are on top of each other it is important to have our own special space.

Mental Health Wellness Tip of the Day Give everyone the benefit of the doubt; cooped up time can bring out the worst in everyone. Do not show up to every argument you are invited to and do not hold grudges.

Mental Health Wellness Tip of the Day Spend extra time playing, Children often make a bid for attention and communication through play. Play is how children process their world and problem solve, and there’s a lot they are seeing and experiencing in the now.

Still need to exercise today?  Try this one! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2GmYM1vmRo 

For as long as schools are closed, Audible is open! Right now, students can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories! Follow the link below! https://stories.audible.com/start-listen

Mental Health Wellness Tip of the Day Develop a self-care toolkit: blanket or stuffed animal, photos, music, journal, inspirational book, gum and ice packs are good for anxiety. Last, decorate a self-regulation comfort box to store items.

Butterbraid Update: The fundraiser has been postponed until further notice. No payments will be processed until the fundraiser resumes. Sorry for any inconvenience. Stay safe everyone!

Mental Health Wellness Tip of the Day Stay hydrated and eat well. Drink plenty of water, eat some good and nutritious foods and challenge yourself to learn how to cook something new!

Mental Health Wellness Tip of the Day: Reach out to others at least thirty minutes daily. Try Facebook Messenger Kids, Zoom, FaceTime, Skype, phone calls, texting, etc...connect with other people to seek and provide support.