WOS Celebrates Start with Hello Week

Students at William O. Schaefer Elementary School are celebrating Start with Hello Week through group activities, acts of kindness, themed spirit days and a school-wide chalk mosaic that focuses on fostering connections with their classmates and how simply saying “hello” can have a huge impact.

WOS School Counselor Tennille Marino began pushing into classrooms this week to introduce or re-introduce herself to students and explain her role at WOS. When visiting kindergarteners in WOS teacher Shannon Fraher’s class, Marino read the class “The Rabbit Listened” by Cori Doerrfeld and explained how she is somebody they can come to for support and to talk with them if they’re dealing with a “big feeling.”