Culture and Community Intervention/Enrichment Time

Habits of the Mind (7th and 8th grade slideshows): 

Students participate in several communication circles (group discussions) about positive and negative habits. They reflect on how their own personal habits have developed and what happens in the brain when habits are forming.  Students learn that it takes things like discipline, practice, consistency, focus, and dedication to create a positive habit that will contribute to one's personal growth and success. Below are student work samples from this unit of learning and self-reflection.

Understanding Values (staff and student activity):

Students participate in communication circles and reflect on their own values inside and outside of school.  They try and understand where they learned their values and how and if they compromise what they believe in when surrounded by different peers.  After this three part lesson, students wrote their values on a leaf that they added to our community value tree.

Body and Mind (6th and 7th grade slideshows):

Students begin taking Cornell Notes on 7 daily healthy habits including notes on nutrition, sleep, embracing failure, lifelong learning, exercise, stress management, and healthy relationships. Students researched information regarding each of these topics and set a personal goal for themself.  

Understanding Learning Modalities (7th and 8th grade):

Students participated in several memory games/activities and determined the type of learner that they are.  For example, some students discovered they are visual learners, kinesthetic learners, auditory learners, and some learn best by reading and writing.  After reflecting on assignments and projects in our past, we decided to redesign some of those lessons that would suit our specific learning needs.  Our final project was to create posters to hang in classrooms so other students could learn how they learn.