Week 25 at Scott Carpenter Middle School

What a wonderfully silly week we had at Scott Carpenter! Last week we explore the "Why" of why we get upset, stressed or hurt through a series of discussions. This week, we explored the "How." We learned all about Emotional Trolls which are the ways we react in unhealthy ways when we are upset. We also learned about Emotional Superheros, which is how we react in healthy ways when we are upset. On Tuesday the students had a class competition where they had to match each emo-troll with the correct behavior, why they act that way and the negative outcomes.

On Wednesday we played a review game about Emo-trolls and the students had to listen to a scenario where someone was acting out in an unhealthy way and then guess which Emo-Troll it was. Then we talked about Emo-Superheros and the students had to create a project that showed them as an Emo-Troll and as an Emo-Superhero. This activity gave students a chance to explore what helps them calm down and what they need to react to situations in a healthy way.

On this day we also did an activity where brave students got up and said a very important to our time song lyric in the voice of their Emo-Troll. See videos below! Thursday we had a great day doing a station version of our tutoring day. Students rotated between working on a grammar website, math website, checking their missing work on empower/ setting a goal for Low-Mass areas, and working on missing work. Every 8 minutes students rotated and this seemed to keep them focused and on task! On Friday we had a bit of a weird day because the 6th graders had a special event but the mentors had a great time bonding with each other!