Description

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Students today are pressured every day from peers. Everyone has something to offer, if he or she could just look within, recognize his or her strengths, and use them as springboards for exciting opportunities

But self-acceptance is not an easy lesson to learn, and it's an even more difficult lesson to teach. Luckily, author and School Counselor Bryan Smith has developed this fantastic activity guide, designed to accompany the Is There an App for That? storybook. Twenty activities for educators to use with their K through 5th grade students are included. The lessons are designed to teach and reinforce the skill of self-acceptance, while learning to differentiate between making positive changes that will help you grow versus responding to negative peer pressure and changing just to try to fit in.

Several activities can be combined to support your common core learning initiatives and are identified throughout. School counselors and educators who work with K through 5 students will benefit from the included activities with step-by-step instructions, lists of materials, worksheets, and answer keys. The CD includes ready-to-print forms and handouts.

About the Author

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Bryan Smith has worked in the education field for more than 15 years, first as an elementary school teacher then as a school counselor. He excels at teaching students life skills that will take them far and help them succeed. He is also a popular children's author whose other titles include What Were You Thinking? and My Day Is Ruined! His Executive FUNction children's book series won the Counselor's Choice Award, which is awarded by Licensed Mental Health Therapists for "Recognition of Quality in the Field."