The Weekly Ranum: Edition #29

Hello and welcome back to the Weekly Ranum!

We're getting towards the end of the school year here and determined to finish the year strong.

On Mentor Monday we started preparing for the end of year event by making some posters.

Tutoring Tuesday was a great day for students to see what learning targets they can make up before the end of the year.

Wednesday and Thursday was the Wheel of Burnout/Caring. This was a good concept for the student's to learn. They realized that sometimes friends, family members and other people will wear them down, stress them out and even let them down sometimes and that's OK. We talked about the best way to get through those situations is to understand where the person is coming from, let it go and continue to be the best you possible. If the relationship continues to be a strain, be honest and open with that person and let them know what your needs are as a friend. If they can't/won't change or even try to, you may need to cut them out of your life. Overall, a heavy lesson but I appreciated their resiliency and willingness to talk about difficult topics.

The Weekly Ranum: Edition #28

Welcome back!

We had testing again this week so students were a little up and down but we managed to finish our documentary on nutrition. Students learned more about the effects of fast food on the body and how so many internal things can effect your health way more than what you see on the outside.

On No Fun Friday we played a team builder called "head's up". It's like the phone app if you have it. If you don't, basically one of your teammates stands in front of your group and they grab a random word (that they can't see) and hold it on their forehead. Their team then has to act out that word, charades style, so the person holding the word can guess it. You're trying to guess as many as you can in 1 minute. It's a fun game and the students really got into it.

T-shirts are in!!!

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The Weekly Ranum: Edition #27

Hello and welcome back!

Mentor Monday was a great start to the week with talks about mentees, high school and testing.

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday was CMAS testing so I did not see any students in the mornings but did get to see a couple classes in the afternoon. We followed up from last week learning about nutrition by watching a documentary on unhealthy food and it's effect on the body. We will be finishing the documentary this week.

No Fun Friday was pretty laid back. We received our YESS program t-shirts so I handed those out. The students were pumped to finally have their t-shirts. I have pictures but unfortunately my phone is being a pain and not letting me send them to the computer. My apologies, hopefully next week I can upload them.

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The Weekly Ranum: Edition #26

Hello!

This was a great week back from Spring Break!

We started off on Monday with creating individual motivation flowers. On the pedals, each student had to write a few things they did over break, an academic goal they have for themselves for the rest of the year and a social/personal goal they have for themselves for the end of the year. Students had fun with this and it added some much needed color to the classroom.

Tutoring Tuesday went well, as usual. Students caught up on missing assignments and this was also a great chance for students to "wake up" from Spring Break laziness.

On Wednesday and Thursday we talked about Nutrition. We learned how to read nutrition labels and what each category meant in terms of how it effects our body. Students know that most foods they are eating are bad for them, but this gave them a better idea of just how bad, and the possible long term implications of their decision to eat these foods now.

We had no students on Friday but overall it was a great four days and I'm excited to get this week started. Students will be taking their state standardized tests and I know they're all going to do awesome!

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