What is YESS and Who Are We?

AAAAND we're BACK here at ACHS in C251 for our second week of the 18-19 school year!

Lately my classes and I have been having a blast getting to know each other by playing get to know you games and filling out student cards that helps me to understand them better as scholars and as young humans outside of school. At the end of the week last week I quized their memory about the YESS program in ACHS and what it is all about, many students won reeces and kit kats!

We started the year by having one on one meetings with each student to identify whether or not the program would be a good fit for them considering what they are bringing to the table transcript wise and experience wise so that I could formulate a list of kids for the counselors regarding who needed to be removed to pursue their elective passions elsewhere. This took up most of last week but after those were finished we moved onto the Question Ball game where each student caught the ball and answered the question beneath their right palm. After all of my classes completed this we have moved onto what I had planned for today, which was our Heads Up team games! 

I made enough home made lemon cupcakes over the weekend for all of the winning teams in my classes to have some incentive to compete for and boy did this game not disappoint! They were getting really competitive with the points and for a Monday, it sure was exciting and rowdy in here. I will save the rest and possibly even include a video in next weeks blog!

Wish us luck that we will get the rest of our rosters evened out so we can move onto YESS lessons!

Until next week,

Ms. C

Welcome Back!

Hey there Eagles / Eagle supporters!

We are back in action over here in the Adams City YESS room! I could not be more excited about having more classes this year to reach out to, personalities to connect with, and souls to watch grow.

Over the past few weeks schedules have been changing tremendously, meaning that the students who I was supposed to have from last year are not in my classes and the new student requests are not accurate, but HEY! We learn how to roll with the punches over here at ACHS. The beginning of the year at this school always challenges me to test myself as far as my ability to be flexible and patient, so I have been doing my best while getting to know each student individually, whether they will be in my class for the year or not because either way I share the building with them and would like them to know that my room is always a resource for anyone. The word about the YESS program has spread much more than last year so it has been encouraging to hear of students requesting this class due to what they heard of through friends and kids coming into class with a positive image painted in their mind of what the program can offer them. Also, side note, the incoming freshman are so bright eyed, bushy tailed, and adorable! I can't wait to get to know them all.

Here's to hoping rosters get solidified so I can begin to hand out syllabi and get the curriculum rolling! Thanks for checking in with our start to the year!

Until next time,
Ms. C

p.s here is a community resource map of Adams City that was compiled over the summer months to help out students and families in the community, ch-ch-check it out!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QkGbHKP6k9f29WTVsXn45NPCXJneNgV6XwEMA7eLOe8/edit