Hello all!
The first full week of school is in the books. We continued to get to know one another through team builders, learned more about YESS, and played introduction bingo.
This week we will continue to get to know each other and start identifying potential mentor/mentee pairs for the year.
Hope everyone has a great week!
Monday, August 27, 2018
Monday, August 20, 2018
The Weekly Ranum: Edition #1
Hello and welcome back to another year at Ranum Middle School!
The school year got off to a great start with a lot of familiar faces and many of my former students siblings.
We stuck to a basic introduction of YESS, some classroom policies and mostly team building exercises for the first 3 days of school. Students are still shaking off that summer rust but overall they were excited and more than willing to jump in, be themselves and participate.
Have a great week!
The school year got off to a great start with a lot of familiar faces and many of my former students siblings.
We stuck to a basic introduction of YESS, some classroom policies and mostly team building exercises for the first 3 days of school. Students are still shaking off that summer rust but overall they were excited and more than willing to jump in, be themselves and participate.
Have a great week!
Monday, May 21, 2018
The Weekly Ranum: Edition #31
Hello and welcome to the second to last edition of the Weekly Ranum.
This past week was a blur with all of the events going on. We had band/theater performances, field trips, make up testing and all of the end of year catch up you could cram into a week.
We finished College and Career projects, started to clean up the classroom and passed back projects. It was fun reminiscing about the past year and all the fun activities.
Students are pretty checked out at this point so we'll see how these last 3 days go!
Thanks for reading.
This past week was a blur with all of the events going on. We had band/theater performances, field trips, make up testing and all of the end of year catch up you could cram into a week.
We finished College and Career projects, started to clean up the classroom and passed back projects. It was fun reminiscing about the past year and all the fun activities.
Students are pretty checked out at this point so we'll see how these last 3 days go!
Thanks for reading.
Monday, May 14, 2018
The Weekly Ranum: Edition #30
Hello and welcome back to the Weekly Ranum!
This past week there was no Mentoring Monday but we did have the YESS Middle School year end event here at Ranum. Everything came together. There was food, fun and some amazing speeches by some incredible students. Huge shout out to Shaw Heights and Scott Carpenter for coming over, being super responsible and respectful and representing their schools!
The rest of the week we focused on College and Career. Students worked individually and chose any college that interested them. They first focused on some classes/majors they liked and then would look for schools that had great program for those specific majors.
After they chose their college, they would then research a career that interested them. How can you move up in this career, how much money can you earn, where in the country are the most openings and what are the different skills/certifications needed are just a few of the questions they had to look up.
Most students will finish those up this week and then we'll continue to wrap up the school year next week!
8 days left!
This past week there was no Mentoring Monday but we did have the YESS Middle School year end event here at Ranum. Everything came together. There was food, fun and some amazing speeches by some incredible students. Huge shout out to Shaw Heights and Scott Carpenter for coming over, being super responsible and respectful and representing their schools!
The rest of the week we focused on College and Career. Students worked individually and chose any college that interested them. They first focused on some classes/majors they liked and then would look for schools that had great program for those specific majors.
After they chose their college, they would then research a career that interested them. How can you move up in this career, how much money can you earn, where in the country are the most openings and what are the different skills/certifications needed are just a few of the questions they had to look up.
Most students will finish those up this week and then we'll continue to wrap up the school year next week!
8 days left!
Monday, April 30, 2018
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.
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.
Monday, April 23, 2018
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.
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!!!
Thanks for reading!
Monday, April 16, 2018
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.
Thanks for reading!
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.
Thanks for reading!
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