Last Monday was our first Mentor/Mentee Monday of the year. During these classes the mentees and mentors are split up into different rooms. The mentees go over a self improvement curriculum called Why Try and the mentors work on their leadership skills and how they can better serve their mentees needs. After talking with the mentors, they are excited to be paired up and ready to dive in with their mentees.
Instead of Tutoring Tuesday we worked on Personal Values. Students went through a list of about 15-20 values and they had to determine which ones were very, kind of and not really important in their own lives. After, they had to justify why they chose some as very important over other values.
On Wednesday we re-wrote our top 3 mentee/mentor choices because students had decided to not give 100% on Friday when they had a substitute teacher. They were not extremely happy with this decision but they understood that this will continue to happen if they do not turn in their best work.
Since we wouldn't be seeing each other on Friday, I decided to have No Fun Friday on Thursday. Students were in teams of 4 and had to build the tallest paper tower using only 3 sheets of paper, 40 cm of tape, 1 ruler and 2 pairs of scissors. There were some really creative ideas that did not pan out, but there were also some that did not seem like they would work and they did really well.
Overall, it was another fun filled week. I'm hoping to have mentees and mentors paired up this week!
Quote of the week:
"I never want to leave this class" - 6th grade mentee, Serenity.
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