Ask your student:

- What does a school counselor do?

- Do you know the name of the school counselor?

We play a get to know you game and start our lesson about learning about how the brain is like a muscle.

Ask your students:

- How is the brain like a muscle?

We read the story The Worst Day of My Life Ever by Julia Cook and did an activity to practice listening and following directions

Ask your student:

- How did you and your partner do in the listening challenge lego activity?

We learn about having a growth mindset Vs. a fixed mindset.

Ask your student:

- What is the difference between a growth and fixed mindset?

We learn about SMART goals and made a goals for this year.

Ask your student:

- What SMART goal did you come up? Why did you choose that goal?

We read the story The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad and learn about acceptance.

Ask your student

- What does it mean to 'accept others'? We use the definition of appreciating and celebrating others for who they are.

We read the book The Last Stop on Market Street by Matt De La Pena and talk about equity.

Ask your student:

- What are some examples of equity?

We read the story My Name is Sangoel by Karen Lynn Williams.

Ask your student:

- What are ways that we can help others (specifically new students) feel accepted and appreciated in our school?

We read the story The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig and talked about ways to include others.

Ask your student:

- What are examples of inclusion you see at your school?

- What can we do to make others feel included?

We used what we learned this we to create 'Pep Talks' for younger students.

Ask your student:

- What advice did you give in your pep talk?

This unit required by WCPSS in the 3rd grade guidance curriculum. Students learn about coping strategies for different emotions.

Ask your student:

- Can you describe how the wave represents the range of a feeling?

This lesson explains how our thoughts, feelings, and actions are like dominoes and have a cause effect relationship with each other.

Ask you student:

- What causes us to head into rough seas sometimes?

- How are our thought connected to our behaviors?

Student identify the following for when they are upset:

- I can do...

- I can be...

- I can think...

- I can ask...

​- I can say..

We learn about how everyone experiences stress in different ways. We play a Kahoot game to review what we have learned this week.

Ask your student:

- What is stress?

- What are some things we can do to help deal with stress?

Students create skits to show what they learned this week.

Ask your student:

- Which coping skills did your group show in their skit?

We learn about scaling conflicts to assess how to best respond.

Ask your student:

- How can you tell if a conflict is 'cloudy by cool', 'heating up', or 'blazing hot'?

-Why is it helpful to be able to scale a conflict before deciding how to respond?

We talk about how we can use individual solutions to help solve problems.

Ask your student:

- How many strategies can you think of to solve a small problem?

-Which strategies do you prefer?

We learn about how to calmly express our feelings so we can solve conflicts effectively. We practice saying "I feel... when... could you please...".

Ask your student:

- Can you show me how to calmly express your feelings?

We learn about 3 different types of solutions for solving conflict: sings, wings, and slime.

Ask your student:

- What type of solutions is best for solving conflict?

We learn about the importance of moving past conflict. We talked about how to form an apology.

Ask your student:

- How do you form a sincere apology?

We learn about careers and explore different careers in our community.

Ask your student:

- What is the difference between a job and a career?

- What are some careers you can name?

We talk about how our interests, values, and skills can help us decide which careers we would enjoy and do well in.

Ask your student:

- What are things you are interested in that you could enjoy doing in a career?

- What are some skills you have that could be helpful in a career?

We explore the website Paws in Jobland. We take a short survey on the website to see which careers might fit well for us.

Ask your student:

- What type of careers did you find interesting?

- Have you ever thought about what type of career you would like to have?

We finish exploring the website Paws in Jobland and doing some research on careers that fit with our skills, values, and interests.

Ask your student:

- What surprised you about one of the careers you researched?

We wrap up our unit with a fun career trivia game!