What a crazy week?! TWO SNOW DAYS?! Every teacher at Shaw said this is like seeing a unicorn in WPS. So, goodness we were all thankful! Before the massive storm hit this is what we did...
I did Mentor Monday with a twist this week; instead of our normal success and struggle sharing I spiced it up a bit. We started with reviewing our goals then shared one success in our own lives, outside of YESS. Most mentors shared that they passed a big math test in Mr. Hartman's class, have turned in multiple missing assignments, or won their basketball game. It was great to hear the kids be proud of themselves and take the focus off their mentees for a day. The kids then wrote a motivational sticky note for their mentee and found a way to surprise them with it. I got to see some mentees read theirs later that day or on Tuesday and their faces just lit up when they read them. This is something I'll do more often with mentors and I'm going to try and write one for each mentor in the coming weeks. We ended Mentor Monday with a fun game where pairs of mentors faced off in a Simon Says type of game. The object was to listen for me to say 'grab the cup' and be the mentor who ended up with it. Those who got the cup continued in the competition while those without were eliminated. We continued until we had a last mentor standing with the final cup. They LOVED it. What a fun day!
Tuesday I taught Love Cup with the help of a few mentors to start class. One mentor said things that drained them another mentor poured water into a cup that had holes in it and the water drained from the cup. The class then described what 'drained' meant to them. We learned about how we can fill our cups with great, positive things but our cup can be drained by negative, stressful, exhausting things in our life. The kids then created cups with 'drops' of fillings and 'holes' of drainings. They turned out great. My plan was to teach an extension lesson about 'bandaids' or 'tape' to bandage the holes but, well we know, cold and snow messed that up.
Back to school on Friday and were the kids hyped! Haha. We played different games in each hour and then 7th hour earned a pizza party for a class competition (thanks for the idea, Erica!!). It was a great way to end a super short week!
I hope everyone had a great weekend and enjoyed the beautiful sunshine! One more week until Spring break!
I did Mentor Monday with a twist this week; instead of our normal success and struggle sharing I spiced it up a bit. We started with reviewing our goals then shared one success in our own lives, outside of YESS. Most mentors shared that they passed a big math test in Mr. Hartman's class, have turned in multiple missing assignments, or won their basketball game. It was great to hear the kids be proud of themselves and take the focus off their mentees for a day. The kids then wrote a motivational sticky note for their mentee and found a way to surprise them with it. I got to see some mentees read theirs later that day or on Tuesday and their faces just lit up when they read them. This is something I'll do more often with mentors and I'm going to try and write one for each mentor in the coming weeks. We ended Mentor Monday with a fun game where pairs of mentors faced off in a Simon Says type of game. The object was to listen for me to say 'grab the cup' and be the mentor who ended up with it. Those who got the cup continued in the competition while those without were eliminated. We continued until we had a last mentor standing with the final cup. They LOVED it. What a fun day!
Tuesday I taught Love Cup with the help of a few mentors to start class. One mentor said things that drained them another mentor poured water into a cup that had holes in it and the water drained from the cup. The class then described what 'drained' meant to them. We learned about how we can fill our cups with great, positive things but our cup can be drained by negative, stressful, exhausting things in our life. The kids then created cups with 'drops' of fillings and 'holes' of drainings. They turned out great. My plan was to teach an extension lesson about 'bandaids' or 'tape' to bandage the holes but, well we know, cold and snow messed that up.
Back to school on Friday and were the kids hyped! Haha. We played different games in each hour and then 7th hour earned a pizza party for a class competition (thanks for the idea, Erica!!). It was a great way to end a super short week!
I hope everyone had a great weekend and enjoyed the beautiful sunshine! One more week until Spring break!
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