On the morning of October 14, BMHS’ W.E.B. (Where Everyone Belongs, 6th grade Transition Program) and LINK (9th grade Transition Program) Leaders (student mentors), directed lessons in the 6th and 9th grade classrooms. This student mentor program is an important part of check ins and easing the transition into both Middle School and High School.
BMS W.E.B. advisors Ms. Kelly and Ms. Hammond and BHS LINK advisors Ms. Bugbee and Ms. Hart shared the outlines for the lessons below. The student mentors lead the 45 minute lessons which included different activities and games to help make it engaging and interactive.
Great job W.E.B. and LINK Leaders!
W.E.B. Activity: Maintaining Emotional Balance
The objective of the lesson was to talk about the importance of handling stress by maintaining balance in your life.
Maintaining balance in life is important as we take on more responsibilities. Knowing what we need to do to stay balanced is important.
Link:
We completed 2 different lessons:
1) Making Choices: Decision Making:
Objective: To realize the impact of the decisions we make.
“Sometimes we have to make decisions quickly, with little information and must rely on intuition, make the decision and don’t even know whether it will be a good or bad decision. Other times we have plenty of time and information about the decision to be made and still struggle”
2) Cooperation and Competition: Sometimes It’s Just Not Fair:
Objective: To understand that competition directly impacts our relationships so we should be very aware of it.
Finding the balance of competition and cooperation is a challenge that continually comes about in our lives. Sometimes we can gain much from competing and other times we may gain more with cooperation.”