Mrs. Crabtree's Counseling Corner

It's survival mode here at my house. Every one in my house including me is sick!  With this being our final week on nutrition and a sub coming to teach,  It's videos to the rescue!  However I have to say these are excellent videos for teaching nutrition facts and a fun reminder for kindergarten to eat healthy. 

This month, I will be working on Nutrition for all my classes.  You will see how I have broken it down month by month and some of the materials I use for each lesson.  As a point of reference, I wanted to show you which habits I will be connecting with these units as well.  This unit is mainly for grades K-2.  I am working on the visual for grades 3-5 and will post it as soon as I can.   If you'd like the lesson plan for this week, click here ,  On the lesson plan, I have hyperlinked the documents and Powerpoints I plan on using.  Hopefully you can access those.  If not, please comment below, and I will work to get them to you.

I feel like last week's lesson with the K-1 students went really well.  This week, however, I want to be sure they are able to implement it.  In this activity, students will have to Synergize to decorate a Christmas Tree.  This is such a simple lesson, but I needed it to be in order to watch them practice working in a group. I'll have to show you the finished pieces later in the week!  I think this will be a fun, low maintenance lesson, and I don't know about you, but I need that this week!  Below is the Lesson plan. Feel free to click on the plan for the digital version of this plan.

I love using videos to re-enforce the habits!  The kids get a kick out of it too.  Here are just a few of the videos on my playlist that I have used.  I sometimes pick videos tbat are not good examples of a habit and they have to guess which habit the character should have used.  Seek first to Understand  Be Proactive Synergize

I stumbled upon this great book the other day and it was just what I was looking for to help me review Synergize.  What makes it so great is that it's got a Holiday feel to it,  so it was perfect for this time of year.  When I teach Synergize, I feel it's really important that the students understand that we all have different abilities and that using all of our special abilities together makes for a more fabulous result.  Here's the lesson plan with guiding questions. ENJOY!

I don't know about you, but this time of year is crazy!  I feel like I can't keep my classes on the same Guidance Lessons, and if you know me at all, you know that I have to be able to do this in order to stay sane.  It's important that all my classes get the same content.  Therefore, I use December as a time to reflect on what we've learned so far, review, and create culminating projects that go along with what we've learned. Game for Grades 2-5 Seven Habits of Happy Kids Game Set I use these with Grades 1-5.  Kindergarten kids aren't reading yet, so I do this as a whole group using the document camera.  You can purchase it at Amazon.com Culminating Project This is a time of year that I use my older kids to help me with my lesson planning.  (See, its all about utilizing your resources!  LOL)  Anyway, I have the kids develop scenarios and questions for games such as I made above.  I give each group a habit, and have ...

I have been teaching Guidance Classes for 6 years now, but this year has been such an "AH HA!" year in several ways!  First, I think I have finally gotten a handle on why there is so much girl drama!!!  Okay, maybe a don't have a complete handle on it, but I do feel like I'm in a little more in control of how to deal with it.  As I have taught Habit 5 for several years now, I have addressed it from a very general standpoint, and can honestly say this is the habit that has stumped me.  However, this year, out of the blue, I discovered a way that I can better teach it to my students.   I begin by showing my students several pictures that can be seen from two different perspectives.  As we discuss these pictures, I am able to show kids that no one is wrong, but that we have to search for a way to find out how another person is seeing things in a respectful way.  I tell students that we are sometimes so quick to get people to see our perspective that we ...