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The Power of Play A recent article by Melissa Healy of the Los Angeles Times summarizes the importance of play for children. Play enhances creativity, cooperation, problem solving, critical thinking, and resilience. The best kind of play is unstructured, when kids aren’t told what to do. They learn important lessons from just making it up. Too often we get caught up what toys to buy, which apps to download, or what after school activities our children should join. But, the BEST thing for our kids is to just to let them PLAY! Check It Out Please visit the School Counseling pages on the SAS website. We are located under the Student Services tab. We have lots of resources as well a link to a great article, “Reasons Kids are Bored at School, Feel Entitled, Have Little Patience, & Few Real Friends.” Guidance Lessons Pre-K I had the privilege of meeting with all of our precious Pre-K students in my office to introduce myself and the role of the school counselor. After watching a short presentation of what a school counselor does, we played a game so that I could learn little more about each student. In October students will be introduced to the concept of “bucket filling.” They will learn that we all carry an invisible bucket that contains our feelings. When our bucket is full, we feel great. When our bucket is empty, we feel sad. A bucket filler is someone who says or does nice things for other people. Kindergarten In K we read and discussed the book Have You Filled Your Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud. They learned how to be bucket fillers to others. At the end of the lesson, students drew three ways that they could fill others’ buckets. In October, students will learn about handling negative emotions and making good choices using the book Crankenstein by Samantha Berger. 1st Grade Our theme in 1st grade is listening and following directions Students were introduced to one of my favorite characters, Harold B Wigglebottom. Harold learns about what good listeners are and realizes that he hasn’t been a very good one. The students played a listening game that required them to practice good listening skills and follow multi step directions. In October we will continue to work on following directions with the book, The Worst Day of My Life Ever! by Julia Cook. Students will participate in an activity that requires them to listen and follow directions.