Kindergarten Guidance at Lunt

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Kindergarten Guidance at Lunt

Welcome to Lunt School!

Lunt School has about 142 new kindergarten students this year. We are excited to be doing classroom guidance lessons with all our kindergarten classrooms. We teach six weekly guidance lessons with each kindergarten class, and each lesson is thirty minutes long. We teach additional lessons throughout the year as well.

Mrs. LaBossiere and Miss Bush will begin kindergarten classroom guidance lessons the first week in September.

Miss Bush visits
Mrs. Hughes' morning class,
Miss Littleton's classes,
Mrs. Sinnett's class, and
Mrs. Smith's afternoon class.

Mrs. LaBossiere visits
Ms. Granata's morning and afternoon classes,
Ms. Smith's afternoon class, and
Ms. Hughes' morning class.

Getting to know you

During our first kindergarten guidance lesson we got to know the students, and they go to know us! We talked about what school counselors do, and why kindergarteners need school counselors. We also talked a little bit about being in a new school, and riding the bus.

Feelings

During our second kindergarten lesson, we talked about "feelings." Students brainstormed "feeling words," like sad, mad, glad, happy, excited, surprised, grumpy, silly... and many others. We talked about these feelings, and about what those feelings might look like on a person's face. The students did a wonderful job showing these feelings on their OWN face! We also talked about how important it is to talk about our feelings, and to understand how other people feel.

"I feel" Messages

During our third and fourth kindergarten guidance lessons, we taught students about "I feel" messages. During the third lesson, students learned what an "I feel" message is, why it's helpful to use "I feel" messages, when to use them. Students learned that an "I feel" message is safe a way for a person to tell someone else how they feel about something without blaming or threatening. They also learned how to build and use an "I feel" message! Students were then asked to practice using "I feel" messages in school and at home.

For our fourth guidance lesson, we reviewed how to build "I feel" messages, and students practiced using them. We asked students to pair up with a friend and then role-played giving an "I feel" message to their friend. The kindergartners at Lunt sure do know how to give an "I feel" messages now!

Click here to learn more about "I feel" messages.

Personal Body Safety

During our fifth guidance lesson we read a book entitled Uncle Willy's Tickles, which is a story about a child who feels uncomfortable because his favorite Uncle tickles him too much. Students learned that their body belongs to them, and they have a right to tell anyone "No!" or "Stop it!" when someone is doing something to their body that they don't like - whether it is pinching, tickling, hitting, pulling hair... or even hugging.

We also talked about how everybody is different, and while some people really like to be tickled, other people don't - and that's okay! We then talked about the things that we like, and the things we don't like. Some kids said they really LIKE to be tickled and tickled, and some kids said they don't like to be tickled at all. The important part is that if it makes us feel uncomfortable, then it is okay to say, "Stop it! I don't like it when you do that!"

Individual Differences

During our sixth and final kindergarten guidance lesson for Fall 2002, we talked about individual differences. We read the book It's Okay to be Different by Todd Parr. After discussion, we then asked students "What is your most favorite thing to do." We then asked students to use paper and crayons to draw a picture of themselves doing their favorite activity. We then discussed how some of them liked to do the same things, and some liked to do different things. We are all the same in some ways, yet we are all different and special.

Note to parents: For an outline of our six-week kindergarten curriculum, be sure to check out our Parent Resource page.

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