February 14-17

      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, February 14

SYNOPSIS

FIRE - No Travel

2/14 to 2/17 Spirit Week/Kindness Week

• 2/14 "Love Day" - Valentine's Grams
• 2/15 "Be Kind to Your Team Day" - games in quad
• 2/16 "Be Kind to Yourself Day" - activity in quad
• 2/17 "Random Acts of Kindness Day" - Kindness Court presentation in quad

Monday, 2/20 - No school

Friday, 2/24 - Dance at FTHS, 6:30-9:30 p.m. (tickets on sale 2/6)

DETAILS

• Sit together in FIRE zone
• Put phones away
• Take attendance
• Review of calendar
• Valentine's Event with FIRE Group?
• Use FTHS agendas to begin planning how to spend your advisory this week

Wednesday, February 15

SYNOPSIS

FIRE - Travel Optional

• 2/15 "Be Kind to Your Team Day" - games in quad

Some shifting between FIRE classes to allow for all grades intervention in Q3

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 16

SYNOPSIS

FIRE - Travel Optional

• 2/16 "Be Kind to Yourself Day" - activity in quad

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 17

SYNOPSIS

FIRE - Travel Optional

• 2/17 "Random Acts of Kindness Day" - Kindness Court presentation in quad

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.