Beliefs; Empowering or Limiting?

Another great week in the books!  Snow and bitter cold caused another day of super low attendance, but those that were here enjoyed a day of fun!  Let's hope we finally have a week where everyone can make it!

Mentor Monday was a success; I'm really enjoying my time with the mentors this semester.  Tuesday I introduced empowering and limiting beliefs.  The kids already knew which of their beliefs 'built them up' and which 'brought them down' so this idea was familiar.  To teach them a more inside look at these beliefs I assigned a group of kids an article about either empowering or limiting beliefs then they used a great tool, Snap and Read, to listen to each article.  After reading the articles and taking excellent Cornell notes the groups created a poster that showed off what they learned.  They will present them to their peers this week. 

Thursday was our day of low attendance due to the weather, but the kids that were here focused on their missing assignments and I was able to tutor multiple kids in math.  I sure loved this!  I hope I get this opportunity again on our tutoring days. 

Friday was so much fun!  I found a game called SnapChallenge that showed a 'snap' for only five seconds then it had a multiple choice question about it.  The kids worked in pairs to answer each question to win candy.  The snaps were hilarious and the questions required the kids to really analyze the snap when they saw it.  The first one through everyone off because they thought the question after the snap would be cake, but no way.  After that, they studied the snap like mad before it vanished.  It was so fun to watch their faces after each question came up.  "Miss, this isn't fair!" and "I didn't look at bae's watch!" were heard multiple times.  But they begged to play another version so be ready for SnapChallenge part II coming soon.

Hope everyone had a great weekend!  I was home with my sick daughter all weekend.  These winter colds sure aren't fun!