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Classroom-Based Counseling Lessons on Following Directions

Are you the un-organized type? Are you always finding math homework in your English notebook? Organization is the key to success in middle school. Read this article on how to stay organized. Buy a good book bag or tote. Don't get book bags...

Jen, a school counseling intern who graduates in December, gave an organizational skills lesson a creative and interactive spin! Jen wrote: I was running an organizational and study skills group for 7th and 8th grade students during my field experience at a middle school. In this group, each session focused on a different area of organization and studying. In the session where we focused on organizing backpacks and binders, we played a game where students had to race to find a paper in a…

Story Cubes, Story Rocks, Lunch Bunch, Craft projects for school counseling, counseling supplies

Lunch Bunch, end of year, crafts

Lunch Bunch Ideas, Icebreakers, Confidentiality posters

I have compiled lists of therapeutic questions to use with children or youth in counseling sessions. The topics are:1- Divorce 2- Feelings & Coping 3- Social Skills 4- Study skills 5- Self esteemYou can also check out version 2 of Questions for Counseling with the following topics:1- Anger2- Wo...

After learning about how to make Never Ending Cards, I started thinking about what kids could learn from folding paper. Turns out there is quite a bit that can be learned by making a few folds in a sheet of paper! Below are just a few of the benefits that students would gain from learning Origami. Academic Shapes (Identifying basic shapes, new shapes made from folding) Symmetry (Much of Origami is symmetric) Angles (You had a right angle, but folded it in half. Now how many degrees is the…

After learning about how to make Never Ending Cards, I started thinking about what kids could learn from folding paper. Turns out there is quite a bit that can be learned by making a few folds in a sheet of paper! Below are just a few of the benefits that students would gain from learning Origami. Academic Shapes (Identifying basic shapes, new shapes made from folding) Symmetry (Much of Origami is symmetric) Angles (You had a right angle, but folded it in half. Now how many degrees is the…

I know...I know...you have heard me say this a million times. It is important to have groups in science and to have individual jobs while ...

School-Wide Program: Students of Character Club

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"The Tree of Many Colors" provided lots of stimulation from creating art, allowing the kids to travel away from hospital routine and loneliness. Artists John

Still just getting started with this blog, so I thought I could start with some of my beginning of the year activities. I love sending these posters home with the new students to get to know them better. They bring them back the first week of school. It's always interesting to see the ones that are done by the little ones independently and the ones that the Mom's can't resist "improving". Some will come back completely "scrapbooked" with mounted photos, and others with scribbled doodles. I…