Lean On Me
GRADE 3-5 SESSION 3
Time Required: 30 minutes
Content Standards:
Personal/Social Development
C. Students will understand safety and survival skills.
Indicators:
Students will be able to gather, analyze and apply information and ideas.
Students will be able to recognize and solve problems.
GOAL: Students will name different sources of
support in their life that they can count on in order
to help cope with the loss of a loved one.
Activity Statements:
Students will name different people in their lives who will help them cope with
their loss.
Materials:
Paper - one for each group member
Paper for list
Pencils
List of feelings on chart paper from last session
Memory Boxes from previous sessions
Teacher/Parent/Guardian Small Group Follow-Up
Procedures:
Session #3: Professional School Counselor Procedures:
Session #3: Student Involvement
1. Welcome everyone to the group and reviews
1. Students listen.
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Lean On Me
GRADE 3-5 SESSION 3
Session #3: Professional School Counselor Procedures:
Session #3: Student Involvement
Small Group Counseling Guidelines.
2. Explain that today we will be focusing on sources
of support. Define support as, “Someone or
something that is there for us; to listen and to
help us feel better. There are many types of
sources of support.” (Name a couple of examples
to get students thinking, such as a teddy bear, a
pet, a favorite activity, a tree house, a best
friend). “Sometimes we forget how many sources
of support we have.”
3. Ask for a volunteer to serve as a secretary, writing
information for the group. Play "who do you
know", where students name as many sources of
support as they can.
2. Students listen and consider possible
sources of support.
3. A student volunteers to serve as secretary.
Other students take turns naming different
sources of support. The secretary writes all
the responses as a list.
4. Ask group members to match rainbow feelings
4. Students look at their outlines from the
from the previous session with the source of
previous session and match a sources of
support who can best help them deal with specific
support from the list who will help them
feelings.
when they have specific feelings. Students
will write their matches next to the feelings
on the outlines.
5. Closure/Summary: Ask students to share a
support/feeling match from their outlines. Ask
the students to place them in their memory
boxes. As the students are preparing to leave,
remind them that you can be a source of support
for them.
5. Closure/Summary: Students share a
support/feeling match from their outlines.
Students place them in their memory
boxes.
6. Group Assignment: Ask the students to speak
with one of their sources and thank them for
being supportive.
6. Group assignment: Students will find one of
their sources of support and tell them how
they have been supportive and thank them.
Discussion:
Why does death upset us?
How do we feel about death?
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Lean On Me
GRADE 3-5 SESSION 3
How do we deal with the death of a loved one?
Additional Resources:
Adapted from
http://missouricareereducation.org/curr/cmd/guidanceplacementG/responsive
/index.html.
Extension Activities:
As the Professional School Counselor sees the students in passing, he/she will
ask students how they are progressing on their assignment
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