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Community ResourcesFerndale's community partners are providing assistance to families in need. Explore the resources below or reach out to Ms. Wood information on community supports.
Wednesday WellnesThank you all for being supportive the counseling team’s Wednesday Wellness lessons! Here is a recap of what our students learned over the last few weeks of October. Next week, we will focus on kindness, perspective taking, and appreciating others! Click here to access Custer Elemetary's Wednesday Wellness videos. Strong emotions
Coping strategies can help us work with our big emotions and help our thinking brains stay in charge.
Parent Webinar: Managing Your Child's Big Emotion
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Hello Custer Families! I hope that everyone has had a chance to practice self-care in some capacity. I wanted to let you all know that you are doing an amazing job. This week I wanted to focus on ways to connect and ways to support children during distance learning and transitions. Virtual Lunch Bunches This week, I will be hosting optional virtual lunch bunches on Zoom. They will be on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday and will be from 12:15 to 12:45. Tuesday will be for K and 1st, Wednesday will be for 2nd and 3rd grades, and Friday will be for 4th and 5th grades. If your kids are missing their friends this is a great place to send them! Here are the links to each lunch bunch:
Connect with Ms. Wood As we learn to adapt our roles in this new online world, I want to be sure that all of my students still have access to me. To that end, I have created a meeting request form for parents, students, and staff to fill out to let me know they would like to meet. If students are in K-4th grades, I will then send an email to their caregiver’s email address from Skyward for a meeting during one of their breaks. If the student is in 5th grade, I will send a zoom link to their Ferndale School District account. This is one way that our kids will get to practice their independence and self-advocacy skills.
Caregiver Support Webinar: Handling Big Emotions The Ferndale elementary school counselors hosted a live webinar for parents and caregivers on October 6th. It focused on your children’s big feelings during this time and how you can help ease those feelings! We presented some of the strategies we have been passing along to individual parents. We will try an host more webinars to support you, our awesome parents and caregivers.
Supporting Students Through Transitions With the abundance of changes and transitions we are adapting to in so many areas of our lives right now, anxiety and our desire to control things can skyrocket. As adults, we are feeling this, and it's no wonder that our kids are as well. This can look like big emotional reactions over small things, difficulty changing from one task to another, or heightened stubbornness in an attempt to hold onto control of something. I wanted to share a couple great articles as resources for how to help our kids with changes and transitions when they too may be feeling out of control, heightened levels of worry or uncertainty, and are still very much working on their own coping skills in these areas. These practical, day-to-day steps can help our kids know what to expect, rely on some predictability (even within a time of very little of that outside of our homes), and to give them ways to have their voice heard throughout the process.
Daily Feelings Check In
In conjunction to our Wednesday Wellness lessons around strong emotions, I am starting up an online feelings check in system called CloseGap: daily wellness for kids. It is a great resource for our students to track how they are feeling each day and gather effective calm down strategies.
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