WELCOME STUDENTS TO THE

"PLAN YOUR WORK, WORK YOUR PLAN"

2010 MIDDLE SCHOOL MIGRANT COLLEGE MENTORING LEADERSHIP ADADEMY

83 STRONG

17 DISTRICTS

Wednesday and Friday Meetings

Hello everyone hope those of you who participated in the high school camp had an amazing time. Im personally excited to be attending the Middle School camp this weekend. Id like to share with you all how our meet went on Wednesday during lunch. Were getting a lot of returning students for every meeting which is great and they seem to enjoy the team building activities. One of the things I believe we're still struggling in with is the fact that we don't get as much time with the students since it's during their lunch. Our Wednesday after school meeting was a little challenging as we don't have such a large number as we did the first time. The reason being that a lot of the students have to do after school tutoring or intervention programs and they are mandatory unlike our mentor meetings. Last meeting Pahnia and I decided to purchase composition books in order to motivate the students to reflect on paper rather then verbally as we were doing before. We have also implemented the idea of having word of the day as there school uses this concept and the words we choose deal with different aspects of the mentoring philosophy. Fridays meeting went great we meet during their lunch and since Panhia wasnt present I conducted the meeting and the activity we did was The Attention game. It was challenging at the beginning but once the students got the hang of it they really seemed to enjoy it. The five students attending the camp are really excited and I'm trying to figure out what will happen with our lunch meeting this Friday since we usually meet from 11am- 1pm.
Hope everyone is having a great week....

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

High School Leadership Academy

St. Nicholas Camp

Thanks to all of the mentors, bus chaparones, administrative staff and all of you who had a hand in this wonderful experience!

Your hard work will pay off! We may not see it but but it will... through the successful journeys of our students...

Thank you,

Luis, Janelle, Eddie and Alfredo

We are all set to go to tomorrow's camp!!! We hope you are as excited as we are. This will be a life changing experience for many of our students.

Hmong is correct, be ready because our students will be...

Go Mentors...

Eddie, Janelle, Luis & Alfredo

MCMP CAMP

Well hope everyone is ready for the camp tomorrow!
Remember to bring your pillows, toothbrush, etc.
With everyone working together I think that the camp will
be as successful as it can be. So save a lot of energy for the camp
because trust me we are going to need it to keep up with the hype of the students!
So get ready cause it is gonna be a great experience and a whole lot of enjoyment.

~GO MENTORS!

Firebaugh High School

Today's visit to Firebaugh High School went very good. Our seniors are excited and getting their scholarship application for ELF filed out. We have been encouraging them to apply for this scholarship and today we went over personal statements. We expect most students to have the applications ready by next week. The students really impress Maria and I because many have taken our advise and written letters to their teachers/counselors requesting a letter of recommendation instead of verbally asking them. The students have also been getting all their paperwork ready and working on their personal statements. We have also encouraged those who are not seniors to write personal statements and resumes so they can have experience doing them. I believe that our students have a good chance in the scholarship and wish them the best;-)

Today's visit,

Today visit is another successful one although most of the students didn't make it. Yesenia and I attended the lunch and after school meeting at Kings Canyon Middle School. We did a lot of activities to break thee ice and for our students to know a little more about each others. We played
the "Name Game" and the "Things in Common". A major event we had was the "Culture Show". What we have the students do is to share something about their culture and where they came from. Yesenia and I thought that this was a good way to promote culture awareness between the
diverse group we have. Culture awareness falls under one of the LACS column. =) Anyways, the two ice breaker we had was for our students to remember each other names and to find things that they each have in common. Another thing we will keep doing is to have a daily "word of the day" for our students. We realized that it will help them learn and increase their knowledge of the different terminologies. But it wasn't just any words, we try to relate it to school, high school, college, and terms that will do them best for present/future references. Our word of the day today was "involvement". It was surprising how many of the students did not know what the word mean. They could think of other words that remind them of it but not necessary the meaning itself. Also, another thing is we are having our students do daily reflections on our meetings. We used the stipend to buy them each a composition notebook and give it to them to keep and reflect. We will collect it every Friday and read what they write in it. Besides that, we are excited for the camp because Yesenia and I are getting very comfortable with our 5 students that are going. I hope everything else is going great for everyone. Thanks Jose and Martina for the code. Yesenia and I will try to incorporate that with our students too. =)