04.10.22 Weekly Mentor Update

Challenge for the week: For April, the challenges will center around the theme of Earth Day. This week’s challenge is to use a “greener” mode of transportation while hanging out with your mentee. Could you bike to the library or to get ice cream instead of driving? How about taking the bus? Maybe your mentee […]

04.03.22 Weekly Mentor Update

Challenge for the week: For April, the challenges will center around the theme of Earth Day. This week’s challenge is to get outside and clean up a green space. Pick up trash in a local park or in your mentee’s neighborhood, pull weeds and ready a garden bed or, if you’re up for a really […]

03.27.22 Weekly Mentor Update

Challenge for the week: For March, the challenges will center around the theme of Literacy. This week’s challenge is to do an activity that involves reading directions. Follow a recipe to bake cookies or muffins or, find online directions for a DIY project or craft. Is your mentee into drama? Find a two character play […]

03.21.22 Weekly Mentor Update

Challenge for the week: For March, the challenges will center around the theme of Literacy. This week’s challenge is to visit a library with your mentee. Go downtown and walk the library from the bottom to the top. Check out a book, or don’t but be sure to explore! Or, maybe your mentee always goes […]

03.13.22 Weekly Mentor Update

Warmer weather this week! Are you excited, or wish for more snow? Challenge for the week: For March, the challenges will center around the theme of Literacy. This week’s challenge is to ask your mentee questions about reading. What is their favorite book and why? If they could be any character from a book, who […]

03.06.22 Weekly Mentor Update

Some of my daffodil bulbs have started to come up! Spring is almost here! Challenge for the week: For March, the challenges will center around the theme of Literacy. This week’s challenge is to try your hand at storytelling. One way you could do this is by writing a story with your mentee. Or, you […]

02.27.22 Weekly Mentor Update

I can’t believe March is in 2 days! Enjoy these last few weeks of winter! Challenge for the week: For March, the challenges will center around the theme of Literacy. This week’s challenge is to read with your mentee. Perhaps this looks like sitting in a coffee shop with your own books and cup of […]

02.20.22 Weekly Mentor Update

This time of year you never know what you’ll get weather-wise. Enjoy the warm days and enjoy the snowy days! One day soon we’ll be sweating and complaining about the heat index. Challenge for the week: For February, the challenges will center around the theme of Share the Love. This week’s challenge is to tell […]

02.13.22 Weekly Mentor Update

We are into mid-February already – the days are getting longer; the sunrise is before 7am! Bundle up and enjoy the sunshine as much as you can. Challenge for the week: For February, the challenges will center around the theme of Share the Love. This week’s challenge is to share the love with a stranger […]

02.06.22 Weekly Mentor Update

Have y’all been watching the Olympics? I forgot they were starting and now I feel like I’ve missed so much! Those snowboards flipping their way down mountains amazes me every time. Challenge for the week: For February, the challenges will center around the theme of Share the Love. This week’s challenge is to share the […]