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    Social-Emotional Pandemic Risks To Your Child — and Solutions by Age

    I am resharing an article from a parenting blog that I follow. This article is taken from Aha! Parenting a parent community created and supported by Dr. Laura Markham. The article is linked in full above, but I have pulled the sections that apply to our Elementary age students: Social-Emotional Pandemic Risks To Your Child — and Solutions by Age Thursday, October 29, 2020 “Dr. Laura….I’m worried that… “My extraverted four year old never sees anyone but me and his little sister, and is getting more and more difficult.” “My eight year old hates zoom school and now says he hates math and reading.” “My twelve year spends all his…

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    Meet the Counsellor

    Hello! My name is Katie DeReus. Students call me Mrs. Katie. The friendly giant. I am a tall lady with hair that is changing all the time. But I promise my smile and my love and adoration of children will never change. I am proud to be the Counsellor at Gilmore and Rosser Elementary schools. I love working with our students and consider the school environment to be a unique counselling environment in that I often support students over many years as they grow and learn. I have been a School Counsellor since 2016. I was an Teacher from 2008-2016, starting my classroom teaching career at Choice School for Gifted…