The week of February 25th and March 4th 

My mom birthday was February 25th she turned 63!!! I wasn't able to go home during the week but I did send her a gift in the mail about a week prior to her birthday she really enjoyed it!

At work during the week of February 25th we had our usual day of RAOS. I assist students with their homework and then we have our fun time or an explore or beyond class. This week we were trying to enforce the growth mindset in students. The grown mindset program is a program that we have in place that gives team leaders a chance to teach students how to develop their brain by studying. This growth mindset program also tries to make students believe that can really grow their brain. Students in middle school have a hard time realizing some of the things they can do in life. A lot of students knew that the brain is a muslce but they don't understand the concept of making your brain smarter by studying and learning in different ways. 

During this week we taught students about different learning styles and showed them a video about how the brain grows and what things your need to make it grow (water, food and rest).  I also taught students in my RAOS ambassadors class what to do during public speaking. Students became really engaged as I showed them videos with good and bad public speaking examples. Students now have the task to create their own speech about the some of the things they learned from the RAOS ambassadors class and present it to the class. I really wish we had more time to work with the students a little more during the RAOS ambassadors course. This week was a lot of fun. I also got to teach basketball fundamentals with my beyond students.  Right now we are trying to determine what would be the best possible incentive or trip that will align with the basketball beyond course. We usually take all of the students on a field trip once they complete the 8 week Beyond course. Since basketball season is over we won't have an opportunity to go to a basketball game on the JMU campus. Right now we are determining what would be the best fit for the students in the basketball beyond class.

This week during March 4th
We got a lot of SNOW!!!!!This week was a lot of fun. I was a little nervous about being stuck in Harrisonburg but I took a chance Wednesday afternoon and drove home to Richmond. I only went to work twice out of the week. We didn't have wednesday to work because of the snow and we were already off thursday and no staff meeting friday.

I thought I wasn't going to see my family during spring break because the students at the middle school still had school. But because of the snow I was able to go home.