"A Monster and an Alligator"

This week was full of trust bridge presentations, laughter, and emotions.

The mentors started a research project on a leader of their choice, past or present.  They are creating a Google Slide show to present to the other mentors.  Tutoring went well when free time and food is the reward.  Ha. 

Wednesday the mentor/mentee pairs presented their trust bridges to the class.  Afterwards, four classmates asked questions or offered a compliment.  Some of the quotes from presenting were "Snakeness...lots of girls have snakeness in this school."  "Our bridge looks like a rainbow chicken because friendship is like a rainbow to us."  "There's a monster under the bridge that will EAT you and an alligator that will just bite your face off...this is all from breaking our trust."  Haha.  It was nice to see all their hard work and hear their ideas about what trust meant to each of them.   We ended the hour with mentor/mentee pairs creating a rap about trust.  This.was.awesome. =D

Thursday we started learning about emotions.  We had some great conversations about emotional intelligence, why we have and need to understand emotions, and what associations the kids have with certain emotions.  We'll continue work with emotions next week as well.

Friday was a day of Kahoot! competitions.  Emojis, logos, and brain teasers were the topics and the kids had a great time competing against each other for food!

Hope everyone had a great week.  Here's to surviving the next two weeks before break! =)