<blockquote>Welcome to Ms. Strom's Website! I am happy to be returning this year and getting to work will all of the returning students and meeting all of the new ones!

<b>I WORK WITH STUDENTS IN A VARIETY OF WAYS AT OUR SCHOOL THROUGH INDIVIDUAL GROUP COUNSELING, PROVIDING CLASS SUPPORT, AND DEVELOPING BEHAVIORAL INTERVENTIONS AS WELL AS COLLABORATING WITH TEACHERS AND OUTSIDE PROFESSIONALS.</b>

* Promoting positive attitudes among students towards self, family, peers and community.

* Assisting students in learning how school performance relates to future opportunities.

*Assisting students in developing skills such as decision making, resolving conflicts and respecting others.

* Working with students, parents and school staff to identify learning needs and to design interventions to enhance student success.

* Helping students to recognize and make the best of their abilities.

* Assisting students in decreasing  their anxiety.

* Assisitng students in recognizing social cues.

* Providing instruction in  understanding and reading body language.

* Providing support during a personal crisis.

* Working with students on attendance issues.

* Coordinating referrals to outside agencies.

* Developing student career awareness.

* Helping to create a safe and positive learning experience.

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<strong>GROWING UP ISN'T EASY! HERE ARE SOME OF THE TOPICS THAT CAN BE DISCUSSED DURING COUNSELING:</strong>

<strong>*</strong> Making friends

* Liking myself

* Getting along with others

* Parents' divorce

* Being a "new kid"

* Studying

* Bullying

* Learning and responsibility

* Death and dying

* Abuse

* Moving away

* Being honest

* Anxiety

* Eating Disorders

* Impulsivity

* Oppositional tendencies
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<p style="text-align: left;">Useful Links:</p>
Reading:

Giggle Poetry:   A really fun site. Students can read poems and grade them with an A to F! Reading poetry helps students increase their fluency.      <a href="http://www.gigglepoetry.com/">http://www.gigglepoetry.com/</a>

Parts of Speech Game:  This website has a few different games that help students identify different parts of speech (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, etc.)    <a href="http://www.gamequarium.com/partsofspeech.html">http://www.gamequarium.com/partsofspeech.html</a>

What Belongs Together?   This website helps students recognize how to organize things into catergories (farms, store, home, restaraunt and more).      <a href="http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bll/nina/">http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bll/nina/</a>

Sentence Sort:   This website helps students differentiate between simple, compund and complex sentences.  <a href="http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/sensort/index,html">http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/sensort/index,html</a>

Story Scramble:  This website works on sequencing the events found in stories.  <a href="http://pbskids.org/arthur/games/storyscramble/scramble.html">http://pbskids.org/arthur/games/storyscramble/scramble.html</a>

Guys Read: This is a great website to find books for boys! <a href="http://www.guysread.com">www.guysread.com</a>

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Math:

Math Fact Monster:  This website helps students work on increasing their math skills  in a fun way (facts, money, fractions and more).  <a href="http://www.factmonster.com/mathmoney.html">http://www.factmonster.com/mathmoney.html</a>

Math Baseball - Funbrain:  Funbrain will give the student a math fact problem for the students to answer.  <a href="http://www.funbrain.com/math/math">http://www.funbrain.com/math/math</a>

Math Fact Practice: This website also works on providing math fact practice for students. It is always better to err on going to easy and having students increase their level rather than decrease it - they think of it as progress!  <a href="http://www.playkidsgames.com/games/mathfact/default.htm">http://www.playkidsgames.com/games/mathfact/default.htm</a>

All Subjects:

Funbrain: This whole website has useful resources and games to increase students' skills.  <a href="http://www.funbrain.com">http://www.funbrain.com</a>

Math Fact Practice: This website has lots of fun games for practicing math facts. This is one of my favorites.  <a href="http://www.fun4brain.com">www.fun4brain.com</a>

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