Spicewood has absolutely the best school counselor ever. Mrs. Hougham is the best. If you want to read more about our lovely counselor, click here.
Mrs. Hougham talked about good weather days and bad weather weather days. We talked about all sorts of different feelings like sad, stressed, angry... and how to cope with those feelings.
They brainstormed some different reasons why they would have an empty bucket.
One important thing she touched on was the person in charge of how you feel is you!! The person responsible for filling your bucket is YOU!
Mrs. Hougham talked about good weather days and bad weather weather days. We talked about all sorts of different feelings like sad, stressed, angry... and how to cope with those feelings.
They brainstormed some different reasons why they would have an empty bucket.
One important thing she touched on was the person in charge of how you feel is you!! The person responsible for filling your bucket is YOU!
Thinking about our feelings....
Ms. Hougham demonstrated how it can feel to bottle up all our feelings and how important it is to let out some of those feelings using some of those strategies.
She again talked about Smell The Roses (breathing in) and Blow The Coco (breathing out).
Loooooove that. As the breathe in they say, "I am...." and then as they breathe out, "relaxed."
We did a meditation about being on the beach and feeling the sand under our toes.
She taught them the trick of counting down from 100 and even imagining the colors of the digits, which I've never heard before!
As an activity the kids had little pieces of paper that had different scenarios like, "Your big sister goes to college and you feel sad. What can you do?" or "You have so much to do after school, piano practice, sports, and lots of homework. What can you do?" The kids worked in groups to talk about what coping mechanisms to use.
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