Distance Social Emotional Learning
Hello Friends!
I hope you are all taking some time to enjoy this new way of learning! Your teachers and I can't wait to talk to you and find out about all you have been doing while we have been apart!
The boxes below are some different at home lessons you can click on to help you with some of the feelings you have while we are apart. Remember, it is OK to feel any feeling we have. What we need to make sure we do is to have appropriate reactions to those feelings!
There are other resources below the SEL at Home links. Keep checking back as I will be adding more as we go.
Let me know if there is anything I can do to help!
Mrs. Gross
Social Emotional Learning at Home
Second Step lessons:
Second Step is the Social Emotional Curriculum we use in our classrooms to help us learn how to manage our emotions and solve problems. The links below will take you to 3 grade level lessons that will help your student review the skills they have already learned. Each lesson also has a lesson guide for families you can read through.
Worry Worriors:
Counselor Keri has put together a series of videos to help us understand why we worry and how to help calm those worries. You may want to watch all of them (there are 10) or just a few!
Other Resources:
You can check the tabs at the top of the page called Counseling Resources for assistance resources. Below are some specific to our current situation.
The podcast linked above is a good podcast that talks about COVID-19 and how to talk to kids about it. This podcast is from a set of podcasts produced by Committee for Children. The Committee for Children also provides our Social Emotional Learning Curriculum, Second Step. If you would like more information about that curriculum or would like to hear more of these podcasts please click "Second Step" above.
This is a one page document from the World Health Organization full of great tips for parents (and counselors).
Tips for Parents during the COVID-19 Epidemic
This is a one page document from the Nebraska School Counselor Association.
This short YouTube video produced by the CDC could be used by parents or counselors to help younger students understand the virus.
NPR Comic about the COVID-19 Virus
This link provides a short comic just for kids helping them to understand the Coronavirus.
This website has several articles and videos to help children and adults cope with the COVID-19 situation.