I love being able to celebrate National School Counseling Week every year on the first full week of February. I educate students and teachers/staff about what the school counseling program consists of here at Washington-Lee. This year, I decided to give out cute treats with little sayings and tidbits of information to encourage and uplift our teachers and staff! I truly enjoyed this opportunity. I forgot to take pictures, but will try to find the posters I made for each day of the week later. :)
For our Guidance Lessons, we focused on Kindness and Appreciation. With it being Valentines Day and Black History Month, I thought it was appropriate to recognize what we should be thankful for and how we can show appreciation to the people around us. Students wrote notes to one another, their parent/guardian at home, and were challenged to do an act of kindness based on what they drew from a "Secret Mission" baggy with kind acts written on slips of paper inside. We read "Have You Filled A Bucket Today?" which taught students that our words and actions can fill others buckets (hearts) with good feelings, as well as fill our own buckets through those acts of kindness towards others. We practiced saying nice things to one another in a circle in the classroom, too, which was such an amazing thing to see as they all began smiling and blushing as we complimented one another and "filled each others' buckets."