January 9th- January 13th

This week was our first week back at North High School. We spent the first day back discussing what we did over break as well as our goals for this semester. Many seniors' goals included: to earn more scholarships for school, and to end with a high GPA. It seems that many of the seniors are anxious for their graduation day.

On the first day of class I introduced rules and expectation for the semester. These are rules from Love and Logic. It seems that the students really liked the rules because it is not a list of "do's and don'ts."

This week we did a short lesson called, "who is your tribe." Students reflected on who their communities are as well as who they can turn to for extra support. We examined if these were healthy relationship or unhealthy relationships.  We talked about finding new members of our "tribe" and what may hold us back from finding out new members of our tribe. Many students had issues with trust and deception. We discussed ways we can let people into our lives. This was a really good lesson for all mentees and mentors.

Also this week we did a team building activity so that students can bond and get to know one another. We had fun playing charades and doing a "Guess Who." game. Students were to list 5 facts about themselves. We then mixed up the cards so students could read another student's card. After the card was read the class would guess who it was. This was a fun way for us to get to know knew things about each other and welcome the new students into YESS.