The Counselor’s Corner
Working together to help each child reach their
STAR potential!
February and March have passed us by!
Here are updates on what has been going on in
the Valley Elementary Counseling Department:
FEBRUARY SNAPSHOT: Kindness & Caring
It was a
challenge with all of the bad weather days, but my students were still able to
accomplish a lot in February!
Pre-Kindergarten:
Carrie the Caring Cat visited the students and taught them the importance of
caring for other. We discussed what
caring looks and sounds like.
Kindergarten
& First Grade: Students learned from Froggy’s mistakes in this month’s
lesson. Froggy was having a hard time remembering the importance of using kind
words. He found himself without friends
because of his poor choices to name-call and tease others. The students, along with Froggy’s friend
“Jake the Snake,” did a great job helping to get their favorite green friend
back on track!
Second &
Third Grade: How do our words feel to others? The 2nd & 3rd
graders’ lesson was entitled “Cotton
versus Sandpaper Words.” Students were
asked to feel two sides of a box, one side was covered in cotton and the other
was covered with sandpaper. We had great
discussions about how this related to the words we choose to speak to others
and how those words affect them.
Fourth Grade:
After TWO attempts to reschedule their classes due to snow days this month, we
gave up and I will provide their February lesson in June.
Fifth Grade: How
can pepper, sugar, water and soap be used to teach a lesson about the impact of
our words and actions on others? Ask
your 5th grader to explain it to you! The students did an awesome job with the
“Pepper Experiment!” Turns out pepper is
like people. Our hurtful words/actions
(soap) drives people (pepper) away and our kind words/actions (sugar) brings
people (pepper) back to us…
Fifth Grade: Students also received an anti-tobacco presentation, “Tar Wars’” from our local
substance abuse prevention specialist, Martha White.
KINDNESS
TREE: In addition to our lessons, many of my students also made kindness hearts
that I placed on a tree that is in our hallway near the library. If you need a little “pick me up”, stop by
and read a few kind words from them!
MARCH SNAPSHOT: Career Awareness
Pre-Kindergarten: Due to bad weather days, pre-k March lessons
will be made up in June.
Kindergarten
& First Grade: Students participated
in an interactive lesson with a career riddle book called “What’s my Job?” We also took a look at a few “tools of the
trade” for several careers.
Second Grade:
Playing career charades is so much fun! I had a great time along with the
students when we chose a variety of careers to act out, either individually or
in teams. We learned about the importance of all careers and talked about what
things we should consider when choosing a career of our own.
Third, Fourth
& Fifth Grade: Students played
“Career Tic-Tac-Toe” by listening to clues about several occupations and trying
to guess the careers. We also discussed
the importance of planning ahead for our future so that we are able to have the
career we choose.
In addition,
our 2nd and 4th grade students participated in an
assembly on March 12th with Miss West Virginia, Paige Madden, who spoke to them
about bullying and violence. She taught
them how to S.I.T. (stop, ignore, tell).
It was a great presentation!
As always,
thank you for sharing your child with me.
Crystal Pell
School
Counselor
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