Hello Custer community! The community filled my bucked. Last week, I had a family reach out to say how interesting and important our lessons have been to their kiddos. It made me (and the other counselors) very happy. Thank you all for being so receptive to our Wednesday Wellness lessons. Last week, talked about identifying the intensity and precursors of our emotions, as well as a couple of calm down tactics. For our 6th Wednesday Wellness lesson, we expanded our toolkit of calming strategies by learning about Mindfulness. Mindfulness is noticing what is happening right now. When you notice what is happening around you, it can help you to calm down when you’re sad, angry or frustrated. Mindfulness helps you deal with tough emotions, and mindfulness can make you happy and feel good. Here are the links for this week's Wednesday Wellness videos: Kinder, 1st, and 2nd Grades: Link 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grades: Link Here are some of the mindful calming strategies we introduced to your students this week.
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Hello Custer Cougar community, Last week, our topic was big emotions, flipping our lids, and finding simple ways to calm down. This week, I am excited to continue the theme of big emotions and coping strategies. The counseling team talks about the feeling of worry (or anxiety), how it feels/looks like (body sensations and behaviors), worry triggers (school, home, friends, family), and more grounding activities (exercising, gratitude, creativity, talking). Here are the links to this week’s Wednesday Wellness videos: It is very helpful to identify how strong - or how intense - our feelings of worry are.
See you next week for our 6th Wednesday Wellness lesson, which is a continuation of our big emotions and coping strategies theme! Ms. Wood Hi Custer Students and Families, Welcome to our 4th Wednesday Wellness! I hope that you all found a helpful tip about self-care from our last video! Here are the links to this week's Wednesday Wellness videos. K, 1st, and 2nd Grades: Link 3rd, 4th, 5th Grades: Link
Coping StrategiesLuckily, we discussed a few simple, but effective coping strategies to help. The three coping strategies and links to practice them are:
Hi Custer Cougars,
I can't believe that it is already our 3th Wednesday Wellness lesson! Last week, we explored some tips to help us be successful online learners. I hope that everyone found at least one of those tips to use to set themselves up for success! Here are the links to this Week 3's Wednesday Wellness videos
This week, the elementary counseling team explored the topic of Self-Care. Self-care is the act of taking care of one's physical, mental, social, and emotional health! This can be as simple as getting a good night's rest or having a healthy meal. You can also use deep breathing, exercise, or being creative to practice self-care. It looks different for everyone! Our younger students got to listen to the story, I'm Calm, by Jayneen Sanders. In this story, a child uses strategies they have learned to remain calm when everyone around them is experiencing stress. Our older students learned about different kinds of self-care (e.g., physical, social, emotional) and explored their own self-care habits! We introduced simple activities all students can do to practice self-care. Some examples are:
Feel free to contact me if you would like any help in developing your own self-care practice. I hope that everyone has a wonderful, sunny week! Ms. Wood Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd Grades
Link: https://youtu.be/bDT5AwpsAiA 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grades Link: https://youtu.be/PGarZuS65Mo Additional Resource: Ideas to set up your at-home learning space This week, our students learned some tips to help them be successful online learners. Here are some of those tips:
Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd Grades
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRyJZ0wB2C0&t=33s 3rd, 4th, and 5th Grades Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRyJZ0wB2C0&t=33s In this video, we met Ms. Wood and learned more about what Custer Elementary School Counselor can do for students and families! Ms. Wood's website tutorial: Link |
Ms. WoodSchool Counselor at Custer Elementary School. This page is dedicated to housing Ms. Wood's Wednesday Wellness Lessons. Archives
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