Concord Counseling Updates

Last week we celebrated Red Ribbon Week as a school.  As you will read we had a team approach to our message!  Each day we had a message on Flyervision and a theme of "dress up" to help us focus on keeping our bodies healthy and strong.  Our classroom counseling lessons reflected an awareness of healthy choices.  Our art teachers, Julianne Glossenger and Katie Goedde, guided our students in decorating grocery bags in art classes with a message about healthy choices and saying no do drugs.  The grocery bags were from our local Schnucks and Johnny's Market.  Our music teachers, Stephanie Buscher and Valerie Creech, taught our students songs in music class to support this message of saying no to drug .  This Friday, during our Fall Festival, we will enjoy a Drug Free Assembly message from a magician, Chris Egelston, provided by our P.T.G.!  Thank you to everyone for helping us to continue to teach our kids how to say no to drugs and keep their bodies healthy and strong, now

In second grade, we begin teaching the children how to take their feeling's temperature.  We teach them feelings are not good or bad, they just are.  We want them to be able to name and claim their own feelings and then rate or gauge their feelings by a number.  We call it our feeling's temperature. 1.  Piece of cake. 2.  A little twinge. 3.  Just a little uneasy. 4.  Starting to bother me. 5.  Not too good. 6.  Getting tough. 7.  Pretty tough. 8.  Really tough. 9.  Can't handle it. 10.  Out of control. This year we are going to emphasize: 1-3 as the green range (easy to control feelings) 4-7 as the yellow range (caution - more energy to control the feelings) 8-10 red zone (danger - it takes a lot of energy to control the feelings in this zone) What is your feeling's temperature?