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