January 31 - February 3

    for the future of every student

In the third quarter, our goals are to continue bonding with the grade 9 students, establish some new goals for second semester success, encourage students to use all resources available for being successful at Foothill!, and to arrange for targeted intervention for struggling students

Link to Working Advisory Calendar

Link to Working Advisory Calendar

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Tuesday, January 31

SYNOPSIS

FIRE - No Travel

Review Calendar & Prepare for semester 2

Tuesday, 1/31 - Semester 2 Begins

Thursday, 2/2 - Lunchtime meeting for those interested in DTech as a junior

February 3-10 - Notifications about special program/course selection

Monday, 2/13 - No school

Monday, 2/20 - No school

Friday, 2/24 - Dance at FTHS (more info as it is known)

DETAILS

• Sit together in FIRE zone
• Put phones away
• Take attendance
• Review of calendar
• Sharing - Brainstorm on whiteboard
• What went well for you in semester 1? Academics? Social? Athletics? Hobbies?
• What did you do to help yourself to be successful?
• What do you do want to improve? 
• What can you begin or continue to do to increase your success?
• Use FTHS agendas to begin planning how to spend the advisory this week

Wednesday, February 1

SYNOPSIS

FIRE - Travel Optional

Connect with one another, school work or travel as needed

DETAILS

• Sit together in FIRE zone
• Put phones away
• Take attendance
• Agendas out and ready to write/share plan for the week
• Set up for in-room work or sign out for appropriate travel
• Students should have a written goal for traveling
• This is a "why I need to travel" statement
• Leader(s) sit with students and connect/work alongside
• Once everyone is set, leader should check on travelers

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Thursday, February 2

SYNOPSIS

FIRE - Travel Optional

DTech Nexus Meeting with Miller and Li

Connect with one another, school work or travel as needed

DETAILS

• Sit together in FIRE zone
• Put phones away
• Take attendance
• Agendas out and ready to write/share plan for the week
• Set up for in-room work or sign out for appropriate travel
• Students should have a written goal for traveling
• This is a "why I need to travel" statement
• Leader(s) sit with students and connect/work alongside
• Once everyone is set, leader should check on travelers

Friday, February 3

SYNOPSIS

FIRE - Travel Optional

DETAILS

• Sit together in FIRE zone
• Put phones away
• Take attendance
• Agendas out and ready to write/share plan for the week
• Set up for in-room work or sign out for appropriate travel
• Students should have a written goal for traveling
• This is a "why I need to travel" statement
• Leader(s) sit with students and connect/work alongside
• Once everyone is set, leader should check on travelers

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Resources

More Icebreaker Activities

• 40 Questions List from Orientation Handbook​
• Personal interviews - let the kids interview you or each other
  
• Two Truths and a Lie
• Heads Up/Hedbandz
  
• Pictionary (on the white board)
• Decorating desk tent cards (for names)
• Life information bingo cards
• Name of famous person on their back and trying to ask questions to figure it out
• Kahoot of your choice
• What Did You Do This Summer - pair and whole group sharing
• Q&A about first days of school
• Monster drawing (trifold, one person draws top, one middle, one bottom)
  
• Any card game you have available
  
• Any board game you have available
  
• Get out the Legos and let them build and chat
  
• Put "freshdragon" on white board and come up with words/character traits for each letter
  
  • Something similar with student names
    
• ​Taco, Cat, Goat, Cheese, Pizza
  
• If you have paper plates, you could do the drawing on the top of the head (similar to baby shower game)
  
• Find interests and histories in common
  
• https://www.sessionlab.com/blog/icebreaker-games/ ​
  
• https://nuventuretravels.com/blog/10-fun-free-travel-games 

Reminder

FIRE Crew leaders should reference Google Classroom and Canvas for materials, directions, activities, etc.