Happy March!

This week up as we approach early March, we continued to work intensively on grade checks and introduce a new game activity in our program.

Tuesday, we went over homework and class reports. With that, my mentees and I started to examine very closely with their grades with each class and their grade percentages. By examining each of their grade percentages and potentially what assignments are downing their grade or missing in the grade book, I sat with both of my mentees, followed along with a new mentee into my group, Diana Solto, we did a verbal step by step plan to improve those grades even higher than their B or A streak. Additonally, I followed up giving them advice about what habits they want and don’t want to keep for the next following year in order to keep themselves productive and top of their work. Later during their conversation, they asked me how I was able to maintain and be persistent with my schedule. With that, I told them “For me, it is honestly learning how to manage and being consistent with your work. Like myself, I learned to set my values and worked my schedule around what was important and if they matched up to my values.” I added on, “Sometimes I found myself overwhelmed with the commitments I had, but I told myself that it would all be worth it in the end if what I was doing matched matched my values as a person.”

Shifting to Thursday, our team came up with a new lesson plan called “Life with the Wright Family”. The objective of the game is listening story where one person will read out a story. Within this story, you will hear a repetition of “left” and “right”. Everytime you hear, a certain direction, you will pass the object (in this case, we used pins ) in that direction. Regardless if many students messed up or not, the lesson of the plan is similarly in life, we have many obstacles and distractions that will pull us “left” and “right”, however we should remember to focus on one thing in life, in this case, it was to listen very closely not only for directions but the plot of the story. In the end, Mr. Medina was able to ask them question to reflect on their communication, teamwork and listening skills both individually and as a whole group. While, many of the members enjoyed the activity. Many of whom took this time to reflect on very essential things like listening and communication skills in life. In the end, we wrapped our last 15 minutes on beautiful homework!