Tritt Counselor Corner

April 7-11--Spring Break

April 16-25--CRCT Testing & Make-ups

Human Growth & Development

Lesson for the Week of March 31-April 4--Personal Health.  The PTA has provided an opportunity for our fifth grade students to participate in a Human Growth & Development Program.  There was a parent preview of the material.  A registered nurse from Healthwise will speak to the students about body changes, emotional changes that occur when one goes through puberty.  The girls and boys are separated for this program.  There will be several videos shown after the discussion.

Re-evaluate Our Values

Lesson for the Weeks of March 17-21, April 28-May 2--Understanding Self & Others.  When the students were in fourth grade, they did a lesson on values.  At this time, they were asked to fill out a questionnaire ranking 15 items of importance to them on that particular day.  This was done in Sept./Oct. of 2006.  Their questionnaire was kept and we reviewed our lesson on values and their importance in our lives.  The students did the questionnaire again and we compared how things had changed or stayed the same.  Things that we value, change constantly, yet there are things in life that remain the same and will always be important to us. 

April 16-25--CRCT Testing and Make-ups

How Advertising Affects You--Part 1 & 2

Lessons for the Weeks of February 18-29, March 3-14--Points of View.  Advertising is a very powerful source of influence in our lives.  Many of our daily lives are shaped by the advertisements that we see and hear all of the time.   Advertising is all around us, twenty-four hours a day.  We will talk about the affects of various tricky techniques that companies use to promote their product.  Discuss the influence of advertising on the purchase of cigarettes.  We will list products and the way in which the product was being advertised.  The students will become advertisers.  They will create an advertisement of their own promoting a healthy product.

Smoking and Society

Lesson for the Weeks of February 2-15--Personal Health and Safety.  This lesson with the fifth grade will help familiarize students with the many different kinds of tobacco products and teach them that attitudes, norms and laws about smoking in this country.  We will review the immediate and long term effects of smoking on our bodies.  They will view a video on smokeless tobacco--Glory Days...Gory Days by the American Cancer Society.  The students will pretend they are lawmaker and in groups they will make a law  that would decrease or limit tobacco use in this country.

April 16-25--CRCT Testing and Make-ups

Good and Bad Touches

Lesson for the Weeks of March 24-28, March 31-April 4.  The third grade will be participating in a program that is sponsored by our PTA concerning good and bad touches.  Shannon will present an interactive program using her puppet Hermenebell.  Hermenebelle will talk about appropriate and inappropriate touches.  Through the use of the puppet, Shannon will show how children have the right to say "NO" when they are in uncomfortable situations and get that "Uh-Oh" feeling in their stomach.

April 7-11--Spring Break

How Smoking Hurts You-Parts 1 & 2

Lesson for the Weeks of February 25-29, March 3-7, March 10-21--Decision Making.  For the next several lessons, the students will be using their Botvin Life Skills Book discussing the effects of smoking.  We will talk about the immediate and long term effects that smoking has on our bodies and the reasons why people choose to smoke or not to smoke.  Students will list the reasons why people smoke and don't smoke.  The students will take their resting and active heart rate to show how a heart changes beating from one who doesn't smoke to one who does smoke.  Students will work in groups to make anti-smoking posters.

Friendships and How It Effects You-Part 2

Lesson for the Weeks of February 4-15-Social Skills.  We will finish our unit on friends.  The students will share their posters advertising for a friend.  What characteristics are they looking for and what is important in having and keeping friends.  We will end the lesson with the video The Fair Weather Friend--A Story About Making Friends by Joy Berry.