First full week at Ranum!

The first full week here at Ranum is just about complete and it has flown by. It's always a nice challenge early on the memorize the students names and I almost know all of them by now. I am also an expert on opening lockers since 6th graders are still having a little trouble with it. Either way, they all bring a lot of energy to the table and it's been a lot of fun so far.

This week we discussed and posted our Shared Agreements so that we can hold each other accountable in order to maintain a collaborative and safe classroom. We created our own communities, talked about philanthropy, introduced ourselves to one another and built Spaghetti Towers.

The students are getting more and more comfortable sharing with one another and mentor's have already started telling me who they want their mentee's to be. To quote one of the mentors, "Mister, I already know who my mentee is going to be (points to mentee). I'm going to make her less shy, just like how I became less shy last year". I told him that sounds great to me.

Looking forward to week 2! Have a great weekend!