Color Monster Counseling Guide

A comprehensive 2-page school counselor lesson plan and facilitator guide. Provides step-by-step reading prompts for 'The Color Monster', a detailed body-clues mapping guide, slide pacing suggestions, worksheet instructions, and targeted counseling differentiation strategies.

SSSandra Silva

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Broadcast Stars

A dual-module news broadcast unit where students learn speaking, scriptwriting, and filming skills. Module 1 masters core phonics standards (vowel teams and past-tense ed pronunciation), while Module 2 develops essential Social-Emotional Learning skills including reading the room and identifying emotional Zones of Regulation.

Lenny

Summer Steps

A supportive transition lesson designed for 1st graders to process feelings of change, ease anxiety about entering 2nd grade, and celebrate their small group journey through collaborative drawing.

Patricia Perry

Summer Steps Counselor Guide

A comprehensive counselor facilitation guide for the final group session, containing lesson objectives, an step-by-step pacing timeline, guiding discussion questions, and behavioral support tips.

Patricia Perry

Remote Control Agency

A specialized social-emotional learning unit for young learners to understand personal accountability and self-regulation. Using the metaphor of a personal remote control, students learn that they are in charge of their own actions, words, and safety, regardless of what others do.

Corey Hayes

Monster Mixup

A school counseling lesson plan centered on Anna Llenas's 'The Color Monster'. This lesson helps students identify, label, and regulate their emotions through the visual metaphor of separating mixed-up feelings into color-coded jars.

Sandra Silva

Adventure Balloon Poster

A collaborative group keepsake drawing poster template for small group counseling sessions, featuring individual drawing spaces and a shared balloon theme to celebrate cooperation and friendship.

Patricia Perry

Club Connection

A comprehensive social skills curriculum sequence designed for small groups (specifically 3rd graders) to master recognizing feelings, conversational turn-taking, and conflict resolution over three structured lessons, including visual prompts, role-play scripts, and teacher guides with tracking tools.

Rebecca Farnham

Choice Champions

An evaluation kit for Upper Elementary (Grades 3-5) designed to measure the impact of student choice on engagement, ownership, and learning. Includes an observational rubric and checklist for teachers, and a friendly self-reflection survey for students.

Lenny

Soaring Ahead Worksheet

An interactive, student-facing transition drawing worksheet for 1st graders featuring a hot air balloon theme to express feelings about entering 2nd grade and identify supports.

Patricia Perry

Norm Navigators

A 5-day Tier 2 behavior intervention sequence for grades 3-5 focused on recognizing and adapting to social norms across different school settings. Aligned with CASEL Self-Awareness and Social Awareness competencies, the sequence uses the concept of the 'Social Dial' to help students regulate their energy and volume.

Erin McFarland

Newsroom Emotions

An SEL-focused school broadcast lesson where students write, film, and direct an "Emotional Weather Report". Students learn how to "read the room" and use Zones of Regulation terms to identify feelings and select coping tools for emotional self-regulation.

Lenny

My Feelings Jar Worksheet

A beautifully designed, printable student worksheet containing a 2x2 grid of 'Feelings Jars' (Happiness, Sadness, Anger, Calm). Each jar includes a specific, lined white writing area for students to draw or write their personal coping strategies. Includes name and date fields.

Color Monster Counseling Guide