1st Grade Counseling Instruction

1st Grade Counseling Instruction 2025 – 2026 (Dodson)

1:30 PM Mondays – Ms. Granados (1A)
2:40 PM Tuesdays – Ms. Allende (1B)
9:10 AM Tuesdays – Ms. Delgadillo (1C)
9:10 AM Fridays – Ms. Duran (1D)

Unit 1: Skills for School and Learning

Overarching Mindset and Behavior – M5. Belief in using abilities to their fullest to achieve high-quality results and outcomes

9/1/2025 – U1L1: Computer Safety and Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) – Lead by Ms. Kilmer

B-LS 5. Apply media and technology skills

9/8/2025 – U1L2: School and the School Counselor: Students will learn some facts about Ms. Dodson and her job as a school counselor.

B-SS 3. Positive relationships with adults to support success

9/15/2025 – U1L3: Respect and Personal Space: Students will define respect and personal space. They will practice ways to respect the personal space of others and learn what to say and do if someone is not respecting their personal space.

B-SMS 2. Self-Discipline and Self-Control

9/22/2025 –U1L4: Responsible Learners Focus Attention and Follow Directions: Students will define responsibility. They will learn and practice skills needed to listen and follow directions.

B-LS 8. Engagement in Challenging Coursework

9/29/2025 – U1L5: Trustworthiness and Using Self-Talk to Follow School Rules/Expectations: Students will define trustworthiness. They will discuss school rules and why we have them. Strategies to help students follow all rules will be explored.

B-SMS 1. Responsibility for Self and Actions

10/6/2025 – U1L6: Kindness: Students will define kindness. They will discuss ways they can show kindness to others and what they can say and do when others are being unkind.

M 2. Sense of acceptance, respect, support and inclusion for self and others in the school environment

10/13/2025 – U1L7: Engaging in Conversation: Students will express thoughts clearly and kindly in a conversation with others, listen carefully and respond to others with a comment or question, and use conversation do’s and avoid conversation don’ts.

B-SS 1. Effective oral and written communication skills and listening skills

10/20/2025 – U1L8: APS Bully Prevention Lesson – Differences Add Value: Students will learn that diversity means being different. They will explore how they are the same as others and how they are different and how they are special.

B-SS 2. Positive, respectful, and supportive relationships with students who are similar to and different from them

Unit 2: Emotions / Empathy

Overarching Mindset and Behavior – M 1. Belief in development of whole self, including a healthy balance of mental, social/emotional, and physical well-being

10/27/2025 – U2L9: All About Emotions: Students will recognize that everyone experiences emotions differently, understand that emotions affect how their body feels on the inside and how their body looks on the outside, and they will classify an emotion as mild or strong, and pleasant or unpleasant.

M 1. Belief in development of whole self, including a healthy balance of mental, social/emotional and physical well-being

11/3/2025 – U2L10: Identifying Emotions in Ourselves and Others: Students will figure out how they feel and how others feel by paying attention to faces, bodies, the situation, and words.

B-LS 1. Critical-thinking skills to make informed decisions

11/10/2025 – No New Lesson: Makeup any missed lessons.

11/17/2025 – U2L11: Empathy and Compassion – Showing Care and Concern: Students will understand and demonstrate empathy and compassion.

B-SS 4. Empathy

11/24/2025 – No Lesson: Short Week

12/1/2025 – U2L12: Handling Accidents: Students will define accident, predict how others might feel as a result of an accident, and demonstrate what to say and do when they cause an accident.

B-LS 1. Critical-thinking skills to make informed decisions

12/8/2025 – L13: SPECIAL CHILD PROTECTION LESSON: Students will recognize different types of touches, identify private body parts touching rule and the never keep secrets rule, refuse unsafe and unwanted touches assertively, and practice reporting unsafe and unwanted touches. (Letters sent home November 14th)

B-SMS 9. Personal safety skills

12/15/2025 – No Lesson

1/5/2026 – U2L14: Identifying Emotions: A Review: Students will understand how emotions look and sound on the outside, name emotions in others, and state if an emotion is strong or mild, and pleasant or unpleasant.

B-LS 1. Critical-thinking skills to make informed decisions

Unit 3: Emotional Management

Overarching Mindset and Behavior – B-SS 9. Social maturity and behaviors appropriate to the situation and environment

1/12/2026 – U3L15: Identifying Your Strong Feelings – Stop. Name your feeling.: Students will identify clues in their bodies and thoughts about the situations to help them name their feelings. They will demonstrate the first two calm down steps to manage strong feelings – Stop. Name your feeling.

B-LS 1. Critical-thinking skills to make informed decisions

1/19/2026 – U3L16: Calming Down Strong Feelings (Belly Breathing): Students will use a three-step process to calm down: Say, “Stop.” Name your feeling. Take a belly breath. They will demonstrate proper belly breathing techniques.

B-SMS 7. Effective coping skills

1/26/2026 – U3L17: Self-Talk for Calming Down: Students will recognize what positive self-talk is and use positive self-talk to calm down and get rid of Automatic Negative Thoughts (ANTs)

B-SMS 7. Effective coping

2/2/2026 – U3L18: Counting to Manage Worry: Students will demonstrate three (3) ways to calm down—belly breathing, counting, and using positive self-talk. They will identify grown-ups to talk to when feelings are strong.

B-SMS 7. Effective coping skills

2/9/2025 – U3L19: Controlling My Words: Students will distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate words, understand the words/terms – name calling, teasing, leaving someone out/excluding, lying, bad language/swearing, threats, race, and racism, and know what to do if they hear inappropriate words at school.

B-SMS 2. Self-discipline and self-control

2/16/2025 – U3L20: Controlling My Words Part 2: Students will distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate words, know what to do if they hear inappropriate words at school, and learn strategies to avoiding saying inappropriate words.

B-SMS 2. Self-discipline and self-control

2/23/2025 – NO Lessons – Middle School Registration