Engage+with+Habits

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 * Engaging With Our Habits (8/17)**

Rebekah Ellis and I put our heads together and this is what came out:

Objective: Students will begin to genuinely internalize the habits. We want them to play with the ideas so that their brains will begin to make them their own.

Materials: We will provide each of you with a big baggie filled with 5 smaller baggies and 30 note cards.

Activity:
 * Arrange students into up to 5 groups. Give each group 6 note cards and ask them to write one habit on each.
 * Ask each group to imagine approaching a problem. [If they need a frame of reference, you could ask the kids how the school might address the problem of crowding on the stairs.] Their task is not to tackle the problem, but to try to decide how to order the 6 habits: Which cog gets the problem-solving process moving and can they arrange them in a linear fashion?
 * When the groups seem to be finishing, invite each group to share their findings and explain their reasoning. It would be great if they continued to introduce themselves and getting to know each other as an advisory group.
 * Have groups gather their 6 cards into a small baggie and then collect the small baggies into the large advisory baggie. Save this, because we might use these again later.

By the time you take attendance and collect any forms coming in, we think this will take about 30 minutes.

I hope I didn't confuse you by giving you Wednesday's advisory plan before you go to sleep on Tuesday!

-Stephanie Ogden