🙌🏼🎉 A heartfelt THANK YOU to our AWESOME families! Your support for our Next Level Program has been truly incredible! Together, we've empowered our kids, made a difference, and achieved the impossible! We're grateful for your dedication and enthusiasm! Let's keep soaring to new heights! 💪🏼 #GratefulForYou #NextLevel #EmpowerKids #MakeADifference #ItsPossibleWithPoP
#DigCit Family Tip 3: Role-play.
If kids feel like they might have trouble removing themselves from digital drama, experiment with some different ways they can make a graceful exit. Talk through words they can use, ways they can steer conversations in positive directions, etc.
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As kids grow, they'll naturally start to communicate more online, but some of what they see could make them feel hurt, sad, angry, or even fearful. Help your students build empathy for others and learn strategies to use when confronted with cyberbullying.
Congratulations to Charlotte Switzer for winning the Amazon Gift Card!
More prizes to come on Friday!
#DigCit Family Tip 2: Check in about online life.
Just like you'd ask your kid about their sleep, exercise, and eating, stay on top of their online life. Who are they chatting with? How do people treat each other in the games and on the sites they're using?
Oly South celebrated our September Super Spartans on Friday. These students don't let tough challenges stop them! They believe they can and they try again. Great job Spartans!
See the parade of our Super Spartans by clicking the link below:
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Today is World Homeless Day. Did you know we have housing insecurity fact sheets in each of our buildings!
Olympia South kicked off Fire Prevention Week with a fire drill and a visit from the Atlanta Firefighters. Firefighters visited each classroom and ate lunch with some students.
Families, we are just one week away from our second session "Helping Your Child Succeed". Be sure to register for the Zoom link to show up in your inbox. This is for anyone in our district! Last session on Anxiety is housed on the Spartan website under parent engagement.
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Let's face it, some online spaces can be full of negative, rude, or downright mean behavior. But what counts as cyberbullying? Help your students learn what is - and what isn't - cyberbullying, and give them the tools they'll need to combat the problem.
#DigCit Family Tip 1: Define your terms.
Make sure kids understand what cyberbullying is: repeated and unwanted mean or hurtful words or behavior that occur online (through texts, social media posts, online chat, etc.).
5th Graders at Olympia South had an amazing day at the Museum of Science and Industry thanks to the Wood's Foundation!
Parent Concerns: Cyberbullying.
Once kids go online, their chances of finding cyberbullies, haters, and trolls is, sadly, quite high. Find age-specific guidelines, videos, and articles to help with tough conversations -- whether your kid is a bully or is being bullied. Explore answers to all your cyberbullying questions, age-appropriate advice, school resources, and more from parents and experts.
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/cyberbullying
Most kids will encounter mean behavior at some point in their digital lives. For some kids, this experience is a blip that's easily forgotten, while for others it can have deep, long-lasting effects. For parents, the key is staying involved in kids' lives -- both online and off -- so they can step in and offer help if necessary. With guidance from parents and educators, kids can learn how to dodge the drama and stand up for others.
Throughout October we will be sharing 6 different tips for families to encourage best behavior when approaching the topics of Cyberbullying, Digital Drama, and Hate Speech with your families.
1. Define your terms
2. Check in about online life
3. Role-play
4. Encourage upstanding
5. Take breaks
6. Review worst-case steps
A growing trend is children using generative A.I. tools such at character.ai to connect with something in a way that they feel uncomfortable doing with another human. The areas below are areas that we hope you discuss with your children at home, and are concepts that may be brought up in Olympia classrooms throughout the year.
- The role that AI will play in the areas of creative expression, human relationships, and mental well-being.
- The impacts that AI might have on their identity formation and sense of self.
- How AI companions might influence their expectations of genuine and complicated humans.
Read the full article from Common Sense Education here:
https://www.olympia.org/article/1271448
The 2nd session is October 17th 6-7 PM via Zoom. These sessons are free but you need to sign up for the zoom link.
Congratulation to Allison Litwiller for winning the second Super Sized Rice Krispy Treat!
Hurry, there's still time ⏰ to join the excitement! 🎉 Register now, enter contact information of friends and family, and get a shot at winning BIG with a $100 Amazon Gift card! 🌟 Empower kids, be awesome, and make a difference! Don't miss out! #NextLevelAdventures #WinAmazonGiftCard #EmpowerKids #MakeADifference
Olympia South has a new support dog thanks to Mrs.Duggins! Meet Ella 🐶❣️
October is Principal Appreciation Month. We are so thankful for our Elementary Principals and the support they provide students, staff, and families.
