Week 12- Mentor Blog

Good Morning! For my blogging I will be doing some different things. With all these knew changes happening to us all around, it’s been changing our daily lives. It has also changed my life a lot! I was doing all my classes at the campus, which for most of us that was the case. Now we are all doing online. With my job, I also had to learn more about the online school world. I was three boys all in elementary school. With my final project I will be blogging about the lesson plans we will be putting into place. So I take all the boys calendar for what is do that week and I will put together the times we will be doing each subject along with activities. The boys are aged 7,8, and 11. They all need help with there homework and I’m no mother, so this was something very big that came to me all at once. I knew I needed help so I looked up many different blogs on how to home school, or different activities to help cope with children as they get bored through out the day. I’ve watched these three boys since I was about 10, so I know exactly how they act. I knew that if I didn’t have a plan set in stone then they would go crazy. So the first thing I blogged was how to keep them active. The first thing I knew is if I keep them busy and not cooped up in the house they will focus, listen, and be able to communicate in a better way because they will be able to get all their energy out. So the first thing I have them do in the morning is stretches and yoga with me. I tell them this helps clear their brains and they get all their “wiggles out”. I