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For our first lesson we are going to be working on our EMOTIONAL VOCABULARY! Emotions and feelings are often used together, BUT emotions usually come after a series of feelings. We are going to practice learning to recognize feelings and emotions in ourselves and others. In order to manage our feelings and emotions, we must understand them!

In order to do this we are going to learn new vocabulary that helps us to describe our feelings and emotions and learn how to identify emotions when they happen simultaneously. We are also going to be introduced to our learning series "A Little Spot of..." that we will be using for all of our lessons this year.

Check out the video that we used for part of our lesson in the link above! I wish you well friends!

Hey Friends!

Last visit we worked on identifying emotions and building up our emotional vocabulary. This week we are going to continue doing the same thing, but we are also going to read "A Little Scribble SPOT" and learn how Scribble Spot untangles his emotions!

Scribble Spot can get all tangled up with all of the emotions that he is feeling inside. Scribble Spot has learned that in order to untangle his emotions, he has to stop and identify what he is feeling and what he is not feeling. Do you know how to untangle your feelings?

Check out the video to hear the book in the link above! I wish you well friends!

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Welcome back for another counseling lesson! For this lesson we are going to be learning about FACIAL EXPRESSIONS and BODY LANGUAGE. When we get done with this lesson you will be able to identify facial expressions in yourself and others and will have learned how to recognize and express feelings. FACIAL EXPRESSIONS are made using the muscles in the face that express a feeling or emotion. We use these FACIAL EXPRESSIONS to communicate how we are feeling without saying a word.

We use BODY LANGUAGE to express our feelings by the way we move our bodies. Sometimes you can tell how someone is feeling by just watching how they look and act. To help us learn these things we are going to read the book "A Little SPOT of Feelings: Emotion Detective". Understanding our FACIAL EXPRESSIONS and BODY LANGUAGE can help us get along and communicate better with others.

Check out the video that we used for part of our lesson in the link above! I wish you well friends!

Hey Friends!

Welcome back for another counseling lesson! For the second lesson, in October, we did an arts and crafts project where we made our very own SPOT feeling buddy puppets. Every single student in Kindergarten and 1st grade got to color, cut and glue their puppets together. We had a great time doing this and now everyone has their own SPOT feeings!

Next lesson we will be looking more at each individual feeling and emotion. Until then...I hope you use your SPOT puppets to help you identify how you are feeling and to talk about your emotions. You can continue to watch and pay attention to other people's facial expressions and body language as well!

See you next time! I wish you well friends!

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Welcome back for another counseling lesson! For the first lesson, in November we are going to be talking about PEACEFUL SPOT. This lesson is going to help us learn what to do when BIG emotions show up. We will be working on strategies to stay calm and self-regulate our emotions. By the end of the lesson we will have looked at how to identify when it is time to calm down and what we can do to be PEACEFUL. We will also be working on our emotion vocabulary. Below you can read about our focus for this lesson:

Vocabulary:

EMOTION: Peaceful

FEELINGS: Relaxed, Calm, Focused, Serene

Make sure you check out the video up top as well!

See you next time! I wish you well friends!

Hey Friends!

Welcome back for another counseling lesson! For the second lesson, in November we are going to be talking about ANGRY SPOT. This lesson continues to help us learn what to do when BIG emotions show up. We will continue working on strategies to stay calm and self-regulate our emotions. By the end of the lesson we will have looked at how to identify when we are ANGRY and what we can do to get back to finding our PEACEFUL spot. We will also continue working on our emotion vocabulary. Below you can read about our focus for this lesson:

Vocabulary:

EMOTION: Angry

FEELINGS: Frustrated, Afraid, Hurt

Make sure you check out the video up top as well!

See you next time! I wish you well friends!

Hey Friends!

Welcome back for another counseling lesson! For the first lesson, in January we are going to be talking about ANXIETY SPOT. This lesson continues to help us learn what to do when BIG emotions show up. We will continue working on strategies to stay calm and self-regulate our emotions. By the end of the lesson we will have looked at how to identify when we are ANXIOUS and what we can do to get back to finding our PEACEFUL spot. We will also continue working on our emotion vocabulary. Below you can read about our focus for this lesson:

Vocabulary:

EMOTION: Anxiety

FEELINGS: Worry, Nervous, Scared

Make sure you check out the video up top as well!

See you next time! I wish you well friends!

Hey Friends!

Welcome back for another counseling lesson! We are going to be taking a break from our SPOT lessons and from now until the week of March 11th we are going to be talking about child safety . During these lessons we will be going over a Powerpoint, watching videos and having some classroom discussion about being safe. We will also be learning 5 Safety Rules to help keep you safe. This is really important information!

See you next time! I wish you well friends!

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Today is an AMI day due to the inclement weather! I hope you all are staying warm! Check out some of the SPOT videos we have already watched....they can be found at the beginning of these posts.

For today, check out some SPOT videos that help us understand more about our EMOTIONS and FEELINGS! The first video is about FRUSTRATION and the second video is about TEAMWORK!

See you next time! I wish you well friends!

Hey Friends!

Welcome back for Lesson #2 of our Safety Matters counseling lesson! We are going to be taking a break from our SPOT lessons and from now until the week of March 11th we are going to be talking about child safety . During these lessons we will be going over a Powerpoint, watching videos and having some classroom discussion about being safe. Everyone did a great job with the 5 Safety rules and we have a lot more to learn.

See you next time! I wish you well friends!

Hey Friends!

We have now concluded all of our "SPOT" lessons. We have learned to identify our emotions and practiced how to verbalize how we are feeling using descriptive words. I am so proud of you! Let's enjoy the end of the year celebrations over the next few weeks and be proud of all we have accomplished this year!

I wish you well friends!