If you don’t know by now, I am a middle school counselor and teacher as well as a licensed professional counselor, who is obsessed with 2 things in life, art and reading! I read more books than almost anyone I know and anyone you know, lol. Books are wonderful for our children and this is my love list of what the kids I work with adore right now! Hopefully your children will love this top ten list of young adult literature.
I am so not ready to have a healthy bedtime routine again. I love summer, even if we’ve all had a raging hot summer down here in Texas and to be honest I’m not ready for school to start. Regardless, time passes and we have to start changing our mindset back to alarm clocks, breakfasts, morning routines that don’t bring you to tears, pre-made lunches and homework assignments.
I teach an executive functioning class to incoming sixth graders at my private school. One of the things we focus on is study skills; being organized and learning how to study are extremely important. I asked all the teachers in my middle school, some parents and some students what they felt we needed to teach them when they entered into sixth grade and how to actually study and organize themselves was top of the list!