The Counselors' Corner
News from Smyrna Elementary School Counselors
Week 2 of Online Learning
Congratulations, Smyrna Stars!...you made it to week 2 of our online learning! Your school counselors are working hard to provide your with lessons, encouragement and purposeful activities and ideas to support you and your family!
Here are your school counselors' emails so that you can contact them. Please send us pictures of your students doing our lessons or learning during this time that we are not in our school building. We love to see and hear from you!
Please keep up to date on school and community information by visiting our blog at:
Cobb Meal Plan for our Families- English version
Cobb Meal Plan for our Famlies-Spanish version
Internet, Food and Crisis Resources
Mindfulness Choice Board
Forms of Self Care
Tips on Talking with Students about COVID-19
Social Emotional Learning Resources
Social Emotional Lessons and Resources
While school counselors are teaching lessons through a virtual platform, we have many resources that provide Social Emotional lessons and resources. Here are some of the Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) resources available to Cobb students.
Minecraft – Social-Emotional Learning Worlds available - http://msft.it/6019TkgQP
The game students love now has social-emotional learning lessons and worlds available. Students can access these worlds and experience engaging lessons on different aspects of social emotional learning.
Featured Available Worlds:
The Mindful Knight – This world will take students through exercises to introduce mindfulness, self-regulation, and social awareness. Students will document their experience in the in-game portfolio and camera which can be exported as PDFs for teacher review. This is appropriate for grades 3-12 to complete the activities in their worlds as individual activities. Grades K-2 may be able to complete the activities in the world as a whole class activity. This world is available in the Lesson Library within Minecraft. Click here for a link to the lesson.
Digital Citizenship – After teachers teach the accompanying lesson, students will enter this Minecraft World and use digital citizenship skills to work collaboratively to complete the tasks within the world. Click here for a link to the lesson.
Inspiration Island – This world allows students to explore Creative Mode in Minecraft and challenges them to be creative with their Minecraft builds. Students will create structures that help them express their emotions. Students will also be able to identify areas of self-growth as well as highlight their strengths. This world is available in the Lesson Library within Minecraft. Click here for a link to the lesson.
BrainPOP – https://www.brainpop.com/social-emotional-learning/
Students can watch and respond to movies aligned with social emotional learning components. Students can interact with the movies by taking a quiz, creating a concept map, creating their own BrainPOP movie as well as other activities attached with each movie.