Monthly Lessons

This month I will be in and out of classrooms getting to know students and checking in with teachers. Next month I will begin visiting each class monthly. Each month I will read a story that relates to our big 3 ideas, introduce a new breath and students will have a take home sheet that relates back to the lesson.

This month I will introduce myself as the counselor and talk about my job. I will introduce our 3 big ideas for the year: Be a Good Friend, Do the Right Thing, and Always Try Your Best. We will talk about how taking deep breaths can help us regulate our bodies, which helps us with our big 3 ideas. I will read the book Pete the Cate, I Love My White Shoes with each class and we will learn our 4 main breaths (star, balloon, drain, pretzel). We will talk about using these breaths to help us calm and regulate our bodies. CLICK HERE to watch a quick video about how to do these breaths.

This month I will be reading Peanut Butter and Cupcake and we will be talking about being a good friend. We will talk about different things that good friends do and don't do. 

We also started a breath chart where we will be ading a new breath each month. We added our 4 main breaths we learned last month plus a bubble breath for this month.