My first week was very challenging. I felt really prepared and had fabulous plans written. There were many more behaviors to work with than I anticipated. The hard part was not being able to get to what I had planned. I missed both my community building activities and academic plans. I had planned a different energizer or brain break each day. As I went along I could feel that the class was not able to tolerate so many different ideas. Instead I worked on one activity for a brain break the entire week.
The activity I did was the greeting where you toss the tennis ball around the circle. It took all week to get most of them tossing the ball and not pitching it, not laughing at each other, cooperating, etc. I am glad that I gave them more time with the activity until we felt that it was successful. Otherwise it feels like rushing through things just to get them done without any gain.
I am hoping each week will gradually get better. I do love my group!
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