Our first full week of school is complete and we participated in a lot of team builders to begin the trust and relationship building process. We started the week by creating our journals that we will use for the rest of the year to work on our literacy skills and also as an outlet for anything that is on our minds that we do not want to share out yet.
We continued the week with introducing some things about ourselves such as our family structures, what we want to be when we grow up and other interesting things we haven't shared yet. We also discussed the difference between a student and a scholar and how they have been referred to as students their whole lives and it's time to change that into an attitude that they are scholars and they care about all the work they do.
Classroom rules and procedures were also developed and they loved having their voices involved in that process. We wrapped up the week by playing more team builders; one of which was the M&M game. The M&M game has questions that align with the color M&M you choose so you must answer that question before eating the M&M. Some questions were silly but it was a good mix of silly and serious and so were their answers.
Overall another great week of getting to know one another and the mentors can't stop asking when are we going to finally pair up with mentees!
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