Hey all!
This past week we finished up a movie called Remember the Titans. It's a true story about a high school football team that was desegregated and had to persevere and battle through racism, injustice and hate in order to have a successful season.
We also spent a couple days on gratitude and what it means to be thankful. Students created great lists of different things, people, and places in their world that they are thankful/grateful for. They had a great understanding of the concept and it was refreshing to hear students sit back and reflect on the things in life that really matter.
Only a few more days until winter break, yay!
Thanks for reading!
Monday, December 17, 2018
Monday, December 10, 2018
The Weekly Ranum: Edition #16
Hello and welcome back!
This past week we finished up talking about our basic emotions and then we jumped into talking about fear.
We discussed why being afraid can be a good and a bad thing. Examples of good fear could be anything that keeps us out of a dangerous situation and an example of fear being a bad thing is when it holds us back from doing something we really want to do.
We ended the week by going to our school play. They were performing Macbeth and we had a lot of YESS students involved in the production.
Thanks for reading and have a great week!
This past week we finished up talking about our basic emotions and then we jumped into talking about fear.
We discussed why being afraid can be a good and a bad thing. Examples of good fear could be anything that keeps us out of a dangerous situation and an example of fear being a bad thing is when it holds us back from doing something we really want to do.
We ended the week by going to our school play. They were performing Macbeth and we had a lot of YESS students involved in the production.
Thanks for reading and have a great week!
Monday, December 3, 2018
The Weekly Ranum: Edition #15
Hello all,
This past week Mentors finished and presented their leader projects about a leader in history that they knew about and respected. Also, on Tutoring Tuesday we had a lot of students catching up in other classes so they can finish this first semester strong!
The rest of the week we talked about Emotions, what are the main ones, which category emotions fall into, what we think of when we see/hear that emotion and we also read an article talking about the purpose of emotions.
Students could relate to a lot of the emotions but it was good for them to vocalize how certain emotions cause them to act/react. It was a great intro into emotions for students and it set a great stage for the future lessons that revolve around emotions.
Have a great week!
This past week Mentors finished and presented their leader projects about a leader in history that they knew about and respected. Also, on Tutoring Tuesday we had a lot of students catching up in other classes so they can finish this first semester strong!
The rest of the week we talked about Emotions, what are the main ones, which category emotions fall into, what we think of when we see/hear that emotion and we also read an article talking about the purpose of emotions.
Students could relate to a lot of the emotions but it was good for them to vocalize how certain emotions cause them to act/react. It was a great intro into emotions for students and it set a great stage for the future lessons that revolve around emotions.
Have a great week!
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