Vista San Gabriel Elementary Counselor's Corner

The holidays can be a really hard time.

Have a great Winter Break from all of us at VSG!

Ideas for your Winter Break!

Hope you all have a wonderful Holiday Break!

October is National Bullying Prevention Month Every October, schools and organizations across the country join STOMP Out Bullying in observing National Bullying Prevention Month. The goal: encourage schools, communities and organizations to work together to stop bullying and cyberbullying and put an end to hatred and racism by increasing awareness of the prevalence and impact of all forms of bullying on all children of all ages. Make friends with someone you don’t know at sc...hool If you've ever been isolated from others at school or you were new at school and it took time to make friends, you know what it feels like to be left out. Or even if you were never isolated, imagine how it would feel. Make friends with someone at school who you don't know. You probably wish someone had done that for you. Be a leader. Take action and don't let anyone at school be in isolation. Challenge Others To Be Kind Make kindness go viral with an act of kindness and challenge friends and classmates to pay it forward with their acts of kindness. Make a video of everyone doing acts of kindness and submit it. We'll add it to our website.

Some great tips for parents helping their kids have school at home. :)

Happy Halloween!

This is a great website to find out what is appropriate for your kids to watch.

https://www.raisingdragons.com/halloween-gelatin-excavatio/

https://www.iheartartsncrafts.com/fluffy-pumpkin-slime/

The Week of October 26th Start the Week With Conversations Amongst Your Peers Meet with fellow students and discuss how you can Change The Culture at your school. Use our Student Participation Toolkit to begin conversations on how your school can be judgement and bully free. Hold a discussion in your classroom where you allow students to openly speak and discuss their experiences with bullying and cyberbullying, and how these experiences have effected them and how they dealt ...with these moments. This is your month to take leadership at your school and carry it through all-year-round! We look forward to hearing about your student led activities during National Bullying Prevention Awareness month. The more awareness that is created during the month of October -- and all year round, you are one step closer to putting an end to bullying!

This is a good one!

It sounds great but it is oh so hard to do when people blame you, complain, or cannot keep a confidence. At that point in time being kind really feels like a super power!

The Week of October 19th Week of Inclusion: Ideas for when we are all back at school. Don't let anyone at school eat alone in the cafeteria or on a school field trip. Make it the week of #NOONEEATSALONE Include other students in school activities Include other students in after school activities... Invite someone you don't now that well to sit next to you on the bus. Learn about each other. At one point or another each of us has felt insecure, or stressed out, or alone. It is important to remind our friends and classmates that we are all in it together and we are there to listen and support each other. Use the hashtag #HereForYou on social media to let your classmates know that they have your support and a person to reach out to if they ever need to talk. See more