Today I served in the toddler room at FayetteKids. I love being able to serve within this organization and pour into the young kids I care for.
Today I served in the toddler room at FayetteKids. I love being able to serve within this organization and pour into the young kids I care for.
I love getting to serve in the toddler room! I’ve grown so close to these kids and my other leaders. I love getting to pour into the younger kids at church!
Today I served in the toddler room at FayetteKids. I love being able to serve within this organization and pour into the young kids I care for.
I had such a fun time catching up with my mentee post Thanksgiving break! She told me about getting to see her family, all the yummy food she got to eat, and she also went to the movies to see Moana 2. There were a few other girls at the table who had seen Moana 2 over the break as well so they got to chat about that. We also played a lot of trivia today and they asked me riddles and thought it was so funny that I couldn't figure a lot of them out. I also talked to my mentee about how we only have 3 more lunches together. She did get a little sad but I assured her that we would make these next 3 lunches the most fun!
We had another exciting lunch today! My mentee was once again in such a happy mood and was telling me how her class was performing a USA concert today. All her classmates, including her, had special speaking parts and we went around the table and practiced. After that, they wanted to all tell me riddles and see if I could guess them. We did this for the remainder of lunch and they thought it was so funny that I couldn't guess many of the riddles.
Today was one of my favorite days at the school with my mentee. We started off just talking about her weekend and then she started randomly giving complements to all her classmates and me. It was so sweet to see them all interacting in such a positive way and giving one another compliments, like "you are so smart" or "your hair is very pretty." After that, they asked if I could ask them trivia questions. So for the remainder of lunch, I asked my mentee and some of her classmates trivia questions about math, sports, Disney, singers, etc. They were having so much fun together and uplifting on another anytime someone got something right. It was such a fun experience getting to see once again how much her relationships with her peers have grown since the beginning of the semester.
My mentee and her friends were very excited to share what they have been learning the last two days in class. They have been going over the Little Rock Nine and were learning all about the history and significance of this event. My mentee told me that she learned that the Little Rock Nine were very brave and fearless and she thought that was amazing. They even got to zoom call with one of the Little Rock Nine yesterday at school. I noticed a few new kids from her class coming to sit by us today and I don't know if this is just because they wanted to talk about what they learned or if she is reaching out and gaining more friends. She did tell me she made one new friend in the 5th grade and pointed her out to me when fifth grade came in for lunch. I feel like my mentee is getting out of her shell more and is interacting with my students then just her normal friend group which is super exciting.
Since today was Veteran's Day, my mentee and her classmates got to watch their friends in a Veteran's Day program at the school this morning. She was telling me all about her friends who were in the choir at school and performed in the program. We also talked a lot about Roblox today which was fun seeing everyone interact about a shared hobby. My mentee and her classmates talked about that for a long time and some kids who don't normally have conversations with us joined in as well. I love getting to watch my mentee grow her friendships with her classmates each and every visit.
Today's meeting with my mentee was another great meeting. She was very talkative to her peers and they engaged in lots of different topics of conversation. Today, they went to their favorite Specials activity, the library, and wanted to tell me all about the books they got to check out. My mentee told me she is reading The Babysitters Club which was such a full circle moment because I remembered reading those books when I was younger. I shared that with her and she was so excited that we had that in common.
