April 16th - 20th

Gimme a "TEST"... Gimme an "ING"... What's that spell? One tough week for our kids. I was extremely proud of the percentage of students who said they tried their best and worked harder than they ever had before, but I could tell they were zapped by Friday. What's so amazing about YESS, however, is that we can provide opportunities for kids to process how they're feeling and work on some "art therapy." The kids reveled in the fact that they were able to come to room 101 and create something beautiful while also hitting a teamwork target for Empower.

On Friday, we continued the teamwork theme by playing team building games. The first was Sentence Makers, in which the team works together to create grammatically correct sentences that have a designated number of words. It was cool to see how creative they were with adjectives! Second, students played another team builder called Let's Make Squares. This is a game where each team member receives three strips of paper and they have to work with their team to create squares. Finally, we went to the small gym to play The Great Wind Blows. This is one of my favorite class builders (and the kids love it, too!).