Week 18: Building Resilient Kids

“Weathering” Changes

If our community was a novel, this season has been full of plot twists that keep us guessing. You have been so gracious, and we are thankful. And your kiddos are building up a skill that they will use for life: resilience.

What does resilience do? It helps our children overcome challenges, be better problem-solvers, and recover from disappointment and mistakes they make along the way. Resilience is birthed from activating our whole brain and using all its four quadrants together.

And our students are learning more and more how to do this as they adapt, grow, and change. Parents, if you are interested in learning more about the whole-brain approach, we have a book recommendation for you! (Book club, anyone? Email Brooke Turbyfill if a parents-only book club sounds good to you.)

Be encouraged. You and your kids are doing a wonderful job in these changing times. Speaking of change, here are some fun weather pics from earlier in the week. What’s that song lyric? “I’ve seen sunshine and I’ve seen rain…”

4th Grade Gets Creative in Math and Spelling

Hands-on units of measurement and spelling-connection games never hurt anyone! Our fourth-grade students have been busy applying learned concepts this week. They’ve measured, weighed, and connected their way to accurate spelling and standards of measure.

Middle School Get-to-Know-You Devotional Time

Learning about how God has wired each of us differently is a high value at Learnwell! Our middle school students got their acting skills going when they had to think of a mime that represents something about who they are and how they’re made. Then, to take it to the next level, they had to remember everyone else’s mime cues to describe how each student is unique. What a fun, active way to rest in God’s wonder: “Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex! Your workmanship is marvelous — how well I know it” (Psalm 139:14).

Kindergarten/1st Learn about Symmetry and Care

This week some students learned the importance of caring for one another by cooking a meal and making cards for a classmate. And as a class, they learned about butterflies and symmetry through painting and reading butterfly books.