Riley Elementary School

Creating a Community of Life-Long Learners

 Riley School's
Character Education 

Good Morning Riley Rock Stars and Parents! 

 Today starts our journey into learning about character education. 

 Character education allows us to learn skills like Respect and Perseverance; we use these skills to be super learners and super friends! Our first trait for September is ..... RESPONSIBILITY!

 Student that demonstrate characteristics of the monthly character trait will be nominated by their teacher to potentially be a Student of the Month. Students of the Month will be announced in our monthly slideshow, as well as announced by Mrs. Valarezo in her morning message. 

 If you have not already, please join our counseling google classroom to access documents for parents as well as social emotional resources for students. 

 If you have any questions please feel free to reach out. 

We look forward to seeing all our students use their rock star powers to be superstar friends! 

 Carly Ashnault
School Counselor MS.Ed
cashnault@spboe.org 

September's Character Trait is Responsibility!

Click on the link below to see a slide show on what it means to be responsible. 

Responsibility.pptx


September's Students of the Month

October's Character Trait is Respect!

Click on the link below to see what it means to be respectful.
Respect Letter
Respect Slide Show

October's Students of the Month

November's Character Trait is Gratitude!

Gratitude is one of many positive emotions. It's about focusing on what's good in our lives and being thankful for the things we have.

 Gratitude is pausing to notice and appreciate the things that we often take for granted, like having a place to live, food, clean water, friends, family, even computer access.

Gratitude Letter
Gratitude Board
GRATITUDE - 2020 NOVEMBER ALL SCHOOL PRESENTATION

December's Character Trait is Empathy!

Empathy is the ability to understand another person's condition from their perspective. We often hear about “putting ourselves in their shoes.” It is a key element of emotional intelligence, and a skill that helps us build and maintain relationships. 

 Empathy is the base of tolerance and compassion and kindness.

Empathy Parent Letter
Kindness Bingo
EMPATHY - DECEMEBER 2020 ALL SCHOOL PRESENTATION

Student of the Month

December 2020

EMPATHY

 Pre-K-Mrs. Waters- a.m. – Aiden Roman

Pre-K-Mrs. Waters- p.m. – Karthik Pappu

Pre-K Mrs. Miller- Ezequiel Deshazier

K-Mrs. Tuohy – Maxson Sylvester

K-Mrs. Publik – Liam Louison

K-Mrs. Burgess – Puneet Kaur

K-2 -Mrs. Reeves – Julia Fortunato

1^st-Mrs. Gaster – Ryan Vindman

1^st-Mrs. McNamee – Juliette Web

1^st-Mrs. Bohl-Ravi – Michelle Diaz

2^nd-Mrs. Lando – Lacey Fego

2^nd-Mrs. Sottiriou – Katelyn Grajko

2^nd-Mrs. Leigh – Axel Melendez

3^rd-Mrs. O’Brien – Ethan Diaz

3^rd-Mrs. Winter – Noemi Hirsch

3^rd-Mrs. Rafalowski – Janay Johnson

4^th-Mrs. Bonanno/Mrs. Ciccone – Daniel Bali

4^th-Mrs. Dispenziere – Brayden Kuhn

4^th-Mrs. Meyer – Logan Kuhn

Bonus – Miss. Ashnault – Liam Moutela

January's Character Trait is Kindness!

Kindness Parent Letter

Kindness Slide Show

Kindness Bingo

Kindness at school looks like:

Holding the door open for someone 
Waving hello in the hallway
Helping your friends

Kindness at home looks like:
Helping your parents with chores 
Reading a story to someone in your house
Using your manners

ACTIVITY:

For the ENTIRE month of JANUARY we are going to have a KINDNESS BINGO CHALLENGE.