Archive for October, 2006
Tough Club – New Songs
Our club was a little rough last night – one of those that the kids just come in looking tired and beat up. Then, we tried to do about 3 new songs. I realized doing newer songs maybe isn’t the best thing to do unless the kids are really into it.
Here’s some things I think [...]
A Barn In Jacksonville
This is pretty cool if you can score a building like this to have club everyweek. Nease H.S. has club in a barn.
They are free to do anything they want to it, short of tearing it down or burning it, as long as they paint it red at the end of the school year. Each [...]
Will It Float?
From David Letterman’s game, we are going to start video taping ourselves trying to make things float.
Then, in Club, we call some kids up and ask for their predictions, before we show the video.
The humor is in what you try to make float.
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You’ll get e-mails whenever there’s a new post. It gives the title and a few lines of each new [...]
Door Prizes
I heard a few years back about a club that gave away “door prizes” to kids. Every week kids got tickets and a number was read out during announcements.
The winner would receive a piece of an actual door. One week it was hinges, the next it was a door knob, and so on.
The last week [...]
Our Mission To A Foreign Culture
The older I get, the more I realize I need to spend time learning about the culture of my kids. This morning, a song came on our announcements and it brought back some great memories of high school. I asked the kids to name the band or even the name of the song, and they [...]
Being A Good Mentor
Leadership Journal has an article titled Good Mentoring by Lesa Engelthaler. She shares 3 stories of successful mentoring.
…remember that mentoring is simply spending time loving people. Everybody has time for that.
Most of the time, if you’re like me, you focus on the big picture, the massive group of kids we feel called to reach. But, [...]