Hi! Just seeing if I could get on here (since it's the school's address) and I can! Thanks for refocus/rejuvenating #2--it was a booster shot, for sure. Liked the addition of Matt to this year's roster and the willingness of all of you to let us ask questions,and beg/borrow/steal your ideas to use with our staff and students. My "ah-ha" moments are usually from your wise sayings/ quotes you have on your powerpoints and on the plaques around the rooms. They are good mind-sets personally for me and help me create journal ideas for my wellness class at school. The one degree more t-shirt idea is fantastic for staff and creating one solely for a specific class would be neat as well. A v8 head-slep moment for me was the reminder to use stretching 1/2 way through a class period to keep kid's blood flowing. Heads you win--tails you lose (that's a fast way of remembering that idea). Thanks to all for another experience well worth my time. Two thumbs up all around!
Hello! Wow...my first attempt at blogging. I've thought about doing this with one of my classes and now that the ice is broken, I think I actually could. Thank you to all the fabulous instructors for the enlightenment. The materials you shared will make my classroom so much more enjoyable for me and my students. (They will probably want to thank you themselves!!) One A HA moment for me was Dan's idea to use a quote regularly, have the students do a quick write on it, then discuss. I love quotes, too, and what an easy way to incorporate them! Where have I been?? Anyway, ever since I got home I have been bubbling over with information that I absorbed over these four days. I just can't stop the praise!!
Greetings from Ladysmith. Thanks so much for a great week. I almost can't wait for school to start! A very strange thing to say at this time in the summer, and might be a dangerouse thing to say to some of my colleagues! My biggest AHAH moment came after I was back in Ladysmith. Looks like we will be having some major changes in administration in the fall. Instead of feeling panicked I just thought, "fresh start for a fresh year"! No big deal. When I thought about my strange and positive reaction, I thought that attitude stuff, "ok I might have said "crap in my head" really works! My AHAH moment during the class came when I was working on my Personal Mission Statement and realizing what a great life I have. Total gratitude.
The nutrition segment was really my aha moment this year. Keeping things simple and fresh seems to be part of the answer. I also loved the working out-working in concept. Thanks to all of you for a great week!
Thank you to all for your encouragement and help last week; you are awesome! I used positive thinking and speaking with a great friend who I bow hunt with; however, he has a tendancy to be quite negative. With my words positive, he couldn't handle it. We only spoke for 12 minutes when we normally speak for nearly an hour or even longer. He said "I can't handle talking to you today." I have my work cut out, but I hope to assist him with his view points, and I wish to make future hunts a much more positive experience.
Kudos to the instructors and the students in this class. You made a very trying experience a great one!!!
What a terrific week. I enjoyed all of the speakers, and I especially enjoyed the input of the class members. You are a great bunch of folks. My favorite part of the class was learning about relaxation and diversion techniques from Dick. I appreciated learning about the quiet, peaceful part of living life fully. This could have been a class that just focused on the "U rah rah", but it was well balanced. Thanks!
It was a great week! I've thought about so much of what we learned. My ah-ha moment came when we learned about choosing our attitude everyday. So often it's easy to see the negative side of things. I'm really trying to focus on the positive.
2 ah-ha moments for me. "75%' of kids are bullied at some point in school. Never realized the % was that large. Need to be more diligent in seeing and listening. The 2nd-"Have you found joy by choice and Are you bringinh joy to others!" I need to work on the second half of that statement more. Thanks to everyone for a great week. I was one of those you chose to repeat the class. I thought I might be a little bored with the material but I definetely was not. As with last year I learned a lot of great things I will be able to use this year-in and out- of the classroom.
I have been spreading the word about some very important numbers which will keep us healthy: 12 for the number of touches needed in our day; 6.5 for the number of minutes needed from belly laughing; 4 for breathing in stressful situations. My favorite is the belly laughs and teaching others about the types of laughter. These numbers are great to live by.
Hey I think it is working now. One of my AHAH moments right after the class ended regarded the comment in the video about "seeing an angel in the stone and carving to set it free." I thought this was a great analogy as to what we do as educators with watching the process of kids growing up and learning. I, too, find myself looking forward to a new school year versus lamenting over summer flying by. I just got back from a week of tent camping on the Bayfield Peninsula with my family. A lot of fun and memories for which to be grateful. I did think of my mission statement often! Amy
In case you are wondering who "sunnyday13" is - it's me - Lynn Sonnentag. "Sonnentag" means "sunny day" in German. I am new to this blogging stuff and am still not sure this is going to work, but thought I had to get creative with the name thing..........I had a great week and many AH HA moments. But, two that stick out in my mind are CHOOSING my attitude each day as I get dressed or bruch my teeth and the two shortest connections between two people are food and humor. I can't wait to incorporate some of the things we did in class into my classroom and with my colleagues this fall! Thanks to all the instructors and my classmates.
Hi! Just seeing if I could get on here (since it's the school's address) and I can! Thanks for refocus/rejuvenating #2--it was a booster shot, for sure. Liked the addition of Matt to this year's roster and the willingness of all of you to let us ask questions,and beg/borrow/steal your ideas to use with our staff and students. My "ah-ha" moments are usually from your wise sayings/ quotes you have on your powerpoints and on the plaques around the rooms. They are good mind-sets personally for me and help me create journal ideas for my wellness class at school. The one degree more t-shirt idea is fantastic for staff and creating one solely for a specific class would be neat as well. A v8 head-slep moment for me was the reminder to use stretching 1/2 way through a class period to keep kid's blood flowing. Heads you win--tails you lose (that's a fast way of remembering that idea). Thanks to all for another experience well worth my time. Two thumbs up all around!
ReplyDeleteHello! Wow...my first attempt at blogging. I've thought about doing this with one of my classes and now that the ice is broken, I think I actually could. Thank you to all the fabulous instructors for the enlightenment. The materials you shared will make my classroom so much more enjoyable for me and my students. (They will probably want to thank you themselves!!) One A HA moment for me was Dan's idea to use a quote regularly, have the students do a quick write on it, then discuss. I love quotes, too, and what an easy way to incorporate them! Where have I been?? Anyway, ever since I got home I have been bubbling over with information that I absorbed over these four days. I just can't stop the praise!!
ReplyDeleteGreetings from Ladysmith. Thanks so much for a great week. I almost can't wait for school to start! A very strange thing to say at this time in the summer, and might be a dangerouse thing to say to some of my colleagues! My biggest AHAH moment came after I was back in Ladysmith. Looks like we will be having some major changes in administration in the fall. Instead of feeling panicked I just thought, "fresh start for a fresh year"! No big deal. When I thought about my strange and positive reaction, I thought that attitude stuff, "ok I might have said "crap in my head" really works! My AHAH moment during the class came when I was working on my Personal Mission Statement and realizing what a great life I have. Total gratitude.
ReplyDeleteThe nutrition segment was really my aha moment this year. Keeping things simple and fresh seems to be part of the answer. I also loved the working out-working in concept. Thanks to all of you for a great week!
ReplyDeleteThank you to all for your encouragement and help last week; you are awesome! I used positive thinking and speaking with a great friend who I bow hunt with; however, he has a tendancy to be quite negative. With my words positive, he couldn't handle it. We only spoke for 12 minutes when we normally speak for nearly an hour or even longer. He said "I can't handle talking to you today." I have my work cut out, but I hope to assist him with his view points, and I wish to make future hunts a much more positive experience.
ReplyDeleteKudos to the instructors and the students in this class. You made a very trying experience a great one!!!
What a terrific week. I enjoyed all of the speakers, and I especially enjoyed the input of the class members. You are a great bunch of folks. My favorite part of the class was learning about relaxation and diversion techniques from Dick. I appreciated learning about the quiet, peaceful part of living life fully. This could have been a class that just focused on the "U rah rah", but it was well balanced. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteIt was a great week! I've thought about so much of what we learned. My ah-ha moment came when we learned about choosing our attitude everyday. So often it's easy to see the negative side of things. I'm really trying to focus on the positive.
ReplyDeleteThanks for a great week!!
2 ah-ha moments for me. "75%' of kids are bullied at some point in school. Never realized the % was that large. Need to be more diligent in seeing and listening. The 2nd-"Have you found joy by choice and Are you bringinh joy to others!" I need to work on the second half of that statement more.
ReplyDeleteThanks to everyone for a great week. I was one of those you chose to repeat the class. I thought I might be a little bored with the material but I definetely was not. As with last year I learned a lot of great things I will be able to use this year-in and out- of the classroom.
I have been spreading the word about some very important numbers which will keep us healthy:
ReplyDelete12 for the number of touches needed in our day;
6.5 for the number of minutes needed from belly laughing;
4 for breathing in stressful situations. My favorite is the belly laughs and teaching others about the types of laughter. These numbers are great to live by.
Have you gotten your 6.5 in today? :)
Trying this out again as having difficulty
ReplyDeleteHey I think it is working now. One of my AHAH moments right after the class ended regarded the comment in the video about "seeing an angel in the stone and carving to set it free." I thought this was a great analogy as to what we do as educators with watching the process of kids growing up and learning. I, too, find myself looking forward to a new school year versus lamenting over summer flying by. I just got back from a week of tent camping on the Bayfield Peninsula with my family. A lot of fun and memories for which to be grateful. I did think of my mission statement often! Amy
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of a HA HA moment vs a a ha moment.
ReplyDeleteIn case you are wondering who "sunnyday13" is - it's me - Lynn Sonnentag. "Sonnentag" means "sunny day" in German. I am new to this blogging stuff and am still not sure this is going to work, but thought I had to get creative with the name thing..........I had a great week and many AH HA moments. But, two that stick out in my mind are CHOOSING my attitude each day as I get dressed or bruch my teeth and the two shortest connections between two people are food and humor. I can't wait to incorporate some of the things we did in class into my classroom and with my colleagues this fall! Thanks to all the instructors and my classmates.
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