Student Support Report
~ with Ms. Jones, School Counselor & Mrs. Misek, School Social Worker
Counselor Connection:
Kinder-2nd grade: Our lessons focused on practicing and sharpening our listening skills after the long winter break. With our life skill in January being resilience, we talked about the importance of persevering through challenges. It helps us to learn new things, have a growth mindset and make our brains stronger.
3rd: We started the year talking about the importance of knowing our personal qualities in order to build our self-esteem. We can use positive affirmations to help us feel good about ourselves! We also practiced resilience and perseverance with some challenging activities- golf ball stacking and the marble challenge. The kids had fun!
4th: We focused on goal setting- making sure our goals are specific and realistic and that we have a plan to accomplish them. Each student set a personal and academic goal for themselves.
5th: The students took a Strengths Assessment to help them write a SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic/Relevant, Timely) goal. They used their strengths to help them determine the best goal for themselves at this time. We also talked about our life skill of the month, resilience, and practiced using it while competing in an Index Card Tower Challenge.
Schoolwide Team Update:
This month our Hawks were able to earn 1,782 stickers, meeting their 1,500 monthly sticker goal. We will be celebrating by holding an all-school flashlight reading time in the gym on the morning of 2/6/26. Please help your student remember to bring a flashlight and blanket on this day. Our upcoming superpower for February is communicator. Our meaningful work program, Hawks Helpers, began in January as well. Every student who applied was assigned to one of their top two preferred jobs, and those jobs began the week of 1/26/26.
Monthly Expectations Connected to Home:
Being a good communicator is an important skill to have throughout one’s life. Here is an article with 10 ways to help improve your child’s communication skills.
Resource of the Month:
You can find many resources on the North Dakota Family First Services website such as:
· Family Therapy – Helps strengthen family relationships and communication
· Family Check-Up - Helps improve parenting skills and behavioral/emotional challenges in children
· Healthy Families – Home visiting program for expecting and new parents
· Nurse Family Partnership – Trained nurses visit first-time moms meeting certain income requirements
· Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) - For parents and children 2-7 to help improve behavior, strengthen parenting skills, and enhance parent-child relationships
