I love Teachers Pay Teachers. If you don’t know what it is, it is a collection of stores where teachers sell their lesson plans, game ideas, posters, and other things to other teachers (or school counselors, social workers, psychologists, speech therapists, etc).What I love about it is that your will
Day 2 and I was back in 7th grade classes to talk with them more about bullying. Yesterday’s lesson took the whole period and there was little time to process and discuss the presentation and activity. I used the first part of the period today to wrap up. I
Today during Lunch Bunch, I wanted to be able to see if my students remembered the skills we have been working on all year. I made this game as way for them to practice their team building skills, as well as to reinforce all the topics we have covered.
It has officially started! Today I met with our 8th grade social studies classes and talked to them about what to expect in high school. I have done this for years, a process I started when I worked at the high school, and I have continued doing this since my
Here is my newest game on TpT! The Bully Buster Dice game will help students learn what to do when they are being bullied. Just roll the die, pick a card and then address then talk about the situation from the perspective of the bully, the bystander or the target.
Cyber Safety and Social Media has been a big thing at our school lately. I don’t think our school is the only one dealing with “how do we teach kids about internet safety?” It’s a growing trend around the country and I’m reading new articles every day about how to
For children, divorce can be stressful, sad, and confusing. At any age, kids may feel uncertain or angry at the prospect of mom and dad splitting up. For the past several weeks, I have been talking to kids in grades 5-8 about divorce. Sometimes, getting them to open up is
I love the book, Memoirs of a Goldfish, by Devin Scillian. It is a sweet picture book depicting the life of Goldfish. Goldfish happily swims around his bowl but day by day, new things and fish are added which crowd his bowl. Goldfish has a variety of feelings and is
While I do not have a ton of items in my TpT Store I think the ones I have would be helpful to any counselor, so I am offering this Back To School Giveaway. a Rafflecopter giveawayContest starts now and ends August 8th! Don’t forget to enter and good luck.
Need Help putting together a Lunch Bunch Program? I put together this TpT Lunch Bunch Lesson Planner. It has everything from Lesson Plan templates to a Teacher Survey, Post Group Evaluation Form, Group Rules, Confidentiality Poster, Invites, a Parent Letter, Attendance Tracker, and How-to Tips. Everything is editable, so you
I’ve been hearing this song a lot on the radio lately. May and June are always a time for lots of words of wisdom to be passed around. While this song was first written as a newspaper article for the Chicago Tribune, it received much popularity after being turned into
I am starting to plan for our 4th to 5th grade transition. I love this and our 5th graders have a ball showing the 4th graders around the building, and telling them all about middle school. Talk about helping kids find a voice. . .this does it for the 5th
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