Healthy Relationships Week 17

Scott Carpenter is filled with students who love each other, however, do they often keep that love throughout the year? Often something comes between friendships and sometimes students are able to work it out, other times not. So we had a discussion this week about how we handle conflict in our relationships and how we can make things better when they are not great. This week we talked learned about healthy relationships and what our role in those relationships are. I got a whole lot of sadness from previous YESS students when we learned about the Apple Pie Analogy and I didn't have apple pie for them to eat, (thanks Sara for setting the bar at real pie😁). Students then got to see what type of pie eater they were: Whole pie eater (controlling), Balanced Pie Eater, or Pie Crumb eater (Victim). I thought it was hilarious to see how many 6th graders turned out to be Pie Crumb Eaters and held the "nothing is my fault" attitude. As well, this is our second week on the Relationship unit and I still am getting snickers from kids because they think I am just talking about their boyfriend or girlfriend (shake my head). One day we will get past it, I can only hope. We continued reading The Hate U Give and I even started crying at a certain part in the book that all the kids said, "Miss, it's not that sad." It was, to my defense. On Friday we had a blast playing real life Hungry, Hungry, Hippo. It's days like this that makes everything you go through as a teacher worth it. 

Emotions Week 16 at Scott Carpenter

This week at Scott Carpenter we dove deep into understanding our emotions. We had great conversations this week about why understanding our emotions matters and the ways in which we can help ourselves by knowing what is going on with us. To add a little fun we watched a video that introduced the emotions from Inside out and played a game where the students were given a scenario and they could only choose one emotion as a table. Then in the debrief we talked about how difficult it was to choose only one emotion and situations in our lives where we have felt all the emotions. We also took a quiz to see if we were optimistic or pessimistic and another quiz to see if we were more introverted or extroverted. Then talked about how understanding where we are on these scales can help us understand our reactions in social situations and help us be patient with ourselves regarding anxiety and our personal needs at school, parties or with friends. And last but not less exciting we voted on the best trust bridges from last week! Pictures below

The Hate You Give and Trust Bridges Week 15

We had a great week here at Scott Carpenter as we started our Relationships Unit! On Monday we had Mentor Monday and I had a great time bonding with all the mentors and setting goals to raise their Lexile numbers in Achieve 3000. On Tuesday we played 2 truths and a lie to get reacquainted with each other after a week apart. On Wednesday we talked about our sphere of influence and evaluated all our closest relationships and how people influence us. On Thursday and Friday we had a blast making Trust Bridges!

 Thank you to our private donors who donated The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas! The kids are super excited to read the book, especially because we are doing it for fun and they wont be graded on anything, as of now!