Sandy Ridge Elementary School Counseling

3rd Lessons 25-26

Lesson 1: September 2025

I visited each classroom to introduce myself to students and review my role as a school counselor. I always want students to know that my job is about helping them, and I help them through classroom lessons, small groups, individual counseling, and consulting with parents and teachers. Students learned how to let me now if they need my help by putting a referral note in one of my counselor mailboxes. Students also completed a short check-in activity to help me and their teacher know how they feel about the school year so far.

Standards:

ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors: Belief in development of whole self, including a healthy balance of mental, social/emotional and physical well-being; Create relationships with adults that support success.

Lesson 2: October 2025

We focused on bullying prevention during this lesson. Students learned what bullying is and differences between a bullying situation and a mean moment. They practiced determining if different situations were bullying or not bullying. Then, we learned the importance of reporting bullying situations to an adult at school as soon as possible.

Standards:

ASCA Mindsets and Behaviors: B-SS 2. Positive, respectful and supportive relationships with students who are similar to and different from them; B-SS 8. Advocacy skills for self and others and ability to assert self, when necessary

Lessons 3 & 4: Nov & Dec 2025

These two lessons focused on problem solving strategies. In the October lesson, students learned to identify the difference between a bullying situation and a rude, annoying, or mean moment. These lessons were an important next step to review and learn strategies to help with these other problems. We first reviewed how to differentiate between big problems that immediately need adult help vs. small problems that you first try to solve on your own. Students learned and practiced the strategies shown.

Standards:

ASCA Mindsets and Behaviors: B-SMS 7. Effective coping skills; B-SS 8. Advocacy skills for self and others and ability to assert self, when necessary

Lesson 5: January 2026

During our lesson time this week we continued learning about important social skills. We learned about what a healthy and strong friendship looks like and specific actions and words that we can use to have a healthy friendship with others. This lesson brought up a lot of questions, and it was a good opportunity to help students and classes process different friendship scenarios and facts.

Standards:

Lesson 6: March 2026

Students loved starting off this lesson searching for the differences between two pictures! Then, we did a movement activity to see the differences and similarities between students in the class. We learned that differences are a good thing and something to celebrate. Students considered ways to be curious and helpful about differences instead of rude or disrespectful. We also practiced empathy and perspective taking skills to help us choose words and actions that will feel respectful to others.

Standards:

ASCA Mindsets and Behaviors: B-SS 2. Positive, respectful and supportive relationships with students who are similar to and different from them; B-SS 4. Empathy

Lesson 7: April 2026

Students love learning about careers! We used an online activity, Paws in Jobland, provided by CFNC to explore careers. Students used the Paws in Jobland Job Finder to complete a short interest inventory. This matched them to career areas and specific occupations that might interest them. From there, they were able to explore many different career choices on the website.

Standards:

ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors: B-LS 7. Long- and short-term academic, career and social/emotional goals

Lesson 8: May 2026

During this lesson, students learned specific strategies to help with stressful feelings, especially during testing. Each student created their own plan with favorite strategies.

Standards:

ASCA Mindsets & Behaviors: B-SMS 7. Effective coping skills

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