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 to add to our breathing wheel, 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 read Peanut Butter and Cupcake and we talked about being a good friend. We talked about how we can ask friends to play with us and they may be busy or say no and that's ok. We talked about including others when we're playing and sharing. We learned a peanut butter and jelly breath to add to our breath wheel.

This month I read Llama Llama's Little Lie and we talked about doing the right thing by telling the truth. We talked about the difference between telling the truth and telling stories/lies. We also talked about how we might get scared to tell our grown ups things that happen because we might get in trouble or they might get mad, but how it's always better to tell the truth. We learned an oops breath to add to our breath wheel.

This month I will be reading The Thing Lou Couldn't Do.