Huntingdon Area School District

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Lessons for Kindergarten – 3rd Grade are taken from the “Second-Step” counseling curriculum focused on social-emotional learning. Career education is also included in all grade levels.

Kindergarten

  • Introduction to a School Counselor 
  • Learning to Listen
  • Focusing Attention
  • Being Assertive
  • Feelings
  • Accidents
  • Caring and Helping 
  • We Feel Feelings in Our Bodies (lesson on understanding what we feel)
  • Calming Down Strong Feelings
  • Managing Disappointment
  • Solving Problems
  • Fair Ways to Play
  • Clothesline Clues to Jobs People Do

First Grade Lessons

  • Back to School and Manners
  • Listening to Learn
  • Focusing Attention
  • Being Assertive
  • Tattle v. Tell Problem Solving
  • Identifying Feelings
  • Feelings Change
  • Showing Care and Concern
  • Identifying Our Own Feelings
  • Self-Talk and Calming Down
  • Solving Problems
  • Fair Ways to Play
  • Handling Name Calling
  • Career Interests

Second Grade Lessons

  • Back to School and Being Respectful
  • Focusing Attention and Listening
  • Being Assertive
  • Identifying Feelings/Learning More About Feelings
  • Feeling Confident
  • Respecting Different Preferences
  • Showing Compassion
  • Predicting Feelings
  • Introducing Emotions Management
  • Handling Making Mistakes
  • Managing Anger
  • Solving Problems (Part 1 and 2)
  • Taking Responsibility
  • Career Interests/Abilities
  • Career Hunt 

Third Grade Lessons

  • Being Respectful Learners
  • Using Self-Talk
  • Planning to Learn
  • Identifying Others’ Feelings
  • Understanding Perspectives
  • Accepting Differences
  • Making Friends
  • Emotions Management
  • Managing Anger
  • Test Taking Skills
  • Solving Problems
  • Dealing With Negative Peer Pressure
  • Learning Styles
  • Entrepreneurship

Fourth Grade Lessons 

  • Leadership
  • Teamwork
  • Mindset: Growth v Fixed
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Bullying Prevention
  • Organizational Skills 
  • Study Skills
  • Accepting Differences
  • Cyber Safety
  • Coping Skills
  • Test Taking Skills
  • Multiple Intelligence
  • BOTS Personality Assessment
  • Career Interests

Fifth Grade Lessons

*Career Fair Projects- All fifth grade student are participating in an career exploration project this May. Students will use the skills and knowledge they learn in lessons to bring a career to life during our Career Fair.

  • Introduction to Careers
  • Bully Prevention
  • College/Career Vocabulary
  • Interests and Abilities/Lifelong Learning
    • Hollands Code
    • Career Cruising
  • Budgets
  • College Virtual Visit
  • Mock Interviews/Interviewing Skills
  • Career Project