Here’s a simple craft that you can do with your child during the mentoring hour. Create a snowflake using white yarn, scissors, glue, a pie tin and wax paper. First, have your child dip yarn strings in glue that is in a pie tin. Use the yarn to form a snowflake on wax paper, overlapping […]
Start your mentoring hour by asking your child questions that can’t be answered with a simple yes or no. Try writing these questions on index cards and let your child choose just one card a day to answer. It’s easy, but it will help you reconnect each week! 1. If you could arrive a school
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Have you ever worked with a child who had a hard time telling you how he/she was feeling? This is a hard lesson for kids AND adults to learn! Sometimes it is just easier to kick someone instead of saying, “You hurt my feelings.” Or, it’s easier just to cry instead of saying, “I miss
I am stealing this idea from a sweet young boy named Carson, so a special thanks goes out to my friend in Missouri! You can connect learning math skills with something that most boys are interested in…baseball cards! Simply buy a few packs of inexpensive cards and divide them between you and the child you
Next week, I have to say goodbye for the summer to the little boy that I mentor. I don’t know about you, but I hate saying goodbye, especially since I do not know what his summer plans will include. Who will watch him during the day? What will he eat? Will he be back next
It can sometimes be hard to come up with craft ideas for older students, so here are a few suggestions that you may be able to use for Mother’s Day or throughout the year. For this age group it is typcially better to give them a little bit of structure in their project, but then
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