Counselor’s Corner
Kara Elfers, SCE School Counselor
elfers_kara@dublinschools.net
(614) 718-8663
OCTOBER NEWS
Grade 5:
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Being responsible: It is important to be responsible for our learning community.
Cooperating and collaborating with others are ways we can show responsibility.
Accepting others: Although we are all different, we can accept one another and
celebrate our differences.
Leadership skills: Students discussed what it takes to be a classroom leader.
Risk-taking: It is important to take risks with our learning and friendships.
Setting goals: There are differences between personal, academic, and career
goals. Working to accomplish goals is an important part of seeking success!
Grade 2:
• Individual strengths: We all have our own unique strengths. We considered our
personal strengths as well as those of our classmates.
• Kind words vs. mean words: The words we use can make others feel a particular
way inside. Compliments: We can be kind to one another through praise and the
use of “compliment cards.”
Grade 1:
• Listening: The four ways we listen at school are Stop, Look with our eyes, Hear with
our ears, Think with our brain.
• Feelings: identify and demonstrate four feelings: happy, sad, mad, scared. We
looked at ways to recognize the feeling that we have and that others have and how
do we help ourselves and others feel better.
• Acceptance and Celebration of others: Finding and focusing on our strengths and
the strengths of others. We focused on ways that we are all different and how
unique that makes us.
Kindergarten
• Listening: It is important for us to listen to others, both at school and at home.
• Feelings: Our four main feelings are happy, sad, mad, and scared. We have all
felt these emotions at some point.
• Problem solving: There are many ways to help solve problems, including sharing,
taking turns, compromising, apologizing, and getting help. We can use these
strategies at recess and free play times.
These conversations are part of our work in educating the hearts of our children as well
as their minds—and it is what helps make up the “Dublin Difference!”
Thank you for your support,
Kara Elfers
Scottish Corners Elementary School Counselor