Cate's Counseling Corner

  How to be Purple? Recently, I have got the pleasure to read the book "The World Needs More Purple People" by Kristen Bell and Benjamin Hart.  This is a great story told by Penny who is going through steps on how to be purple. It breaks down what a purple person is and what you get to do to be purple!  Being purple is a choice followed by actions. Being purple is easy, fun and its something that we can all work towards! Use this language with your child to remind them of what they are capable of and how we can all be purple by making the choices to ask good questions, laughing a lot, using our voice, working hard and being ourselves!

 Twizzler Test Some of you may have heard your student talking about being Twizzlers away from them! What in the world?!?! That's right, we have converted from using rulers to using Twizzlers to measure space.  Just kidding, kind of! During this months classroom guidance we have been talking about space and boundaries. One of the biggest things that I have heard from students is "so and so touched me" or "they sit so close" or "they listen to what I am telling my friend."  All of these scenarios come back to "my boundaries are not being respected." So how do we make sure that we respect one another's boundaries? We all get on the same page on how to implement boundaries.  We have spoken about how different people or situations warrant different amounts of space. With a sibling your space may look very different from the space needed from a stranger. In order to utilize a memorable way of converting space, we utilized Twizzlers. A Twizzler...