Counselors Corner
Monthly Update: March 2021
March Character Trait:
Friendship & Problem Solving!
This month, we will continue to build our social and emotional skills by focusing on Friendship & Problem Solving! As students grow and develop, they are learning the essential social aspects of creating and sustaining healthy lasting friendships with others!
It is important that we guide students in building these skills through practice and modeling! As a result, students are learning healthy and productive problem solving strategies that apply both to relationship building and their own resiliency.
What does it mean to be a good friend?
Good Friends Work together to solve problems!
Problem Sizes
Figuring out the size of our problem can better help us determine how to solve it! Some problems we can solve by ourselves or we can work it out with someone while others need an adults help!
Small
“NO FIX IT” problem. It’s so small that it really is not even a problem. You just let it go and move on. No Danger
Medium
A size 2 is a small problem. No Danger, maybe just sad feelings. It is a problem a kid can fix by themselves. It can be fixed with strategies you already know.
Big
Requires an adult to fix it. It is either unsafe or you have tried to solve it yourself at least twice and have not been able to fix it. Danger, Emergency
Problem Solving Choices:
There are many things that we can try to solve our problems!
- Take Turns
- Tell them to please stop, firmly
- Walk Away
- Go to another game
- Ignore it
- Talk it out & Apologize
- Wait & Cool off
- Make a Deal