Wednesday, May 10th is the final Lake Effect Day of the 2022-23 school year! Lakers are asked to participate by wearing school appropriate Summer/Tourist apparel including shorts, sunglasses, hats, Hawaiian shirts, fanny packs, etc. or Laker apparel.
The theme will be to review all the lessons of the year and discuss perseverance... how to stay in the Laker Zone for the summer!
The March Lake Effect Day was a review of all the reasons we are lucky to be Lakers!! Students played a Lake Effect Bingo game that touched on all the ideas and principles in the Indian Lake Culture Playbook, including E+R=O, press pause and more. Classes also watched a quick video introducing the Laker Leadership Council team that is helping create this year's Lake Effect lessons.
Wednesday, March 1st, is the March Lake Effect Day! Students are asked to wear the color green to show off how lucky we are to be Lakers!
As always, students may also wear their Above the Line shirts. We will test our luck in honor of St. Patrick's Day with some Lake Effect Bingo and check out a video from the Laker Leadership Council. Go Green!
Lakers are feeling the love after the recent Lake Effect lesson! February's focus is to think about love and empathy, whether that is affection for family and friends, or just being a compassionate human.
Part of the lesson considered self-empathy or when you love yourself. Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person. Self-empathy is when you are kinder to yourself. You pay attention and listen to your feelings, you have positive self-talk, you forgive yourself when you make a mistake, and you don’t compare yourself with others. This leads to more positive thoughts and overall better self-esteem. 💓💓💓
Lakers are ready for the new year with mission statements made!
Students and staff considered their goals for 2023 and went through an exercise to create "Grow Your Greatness" or mission statements instead of resolutions.
During last month's Lake Effect Day, students wrote compliments about one another and placed them in "Lake Effect Snowmen."
This time they made two copies of their mission statement, placed one in the snowman and kept the other.
The hope is that by putting our goals out there, along with each other's kindness, we can grow our greatness together!
January 11th is the January Lake Effect Day for Indian Lake Schools! Students are asked to either wear their R-Factor Shirts OR wear the color red to show that they are "Ready for 2023!"
Classes will be taking part in activities that center around goals for the new year.
The December Lake Effect lesson was frosty and fulfilling!
Students were asked to think about their "anchors" or things that motivate them. Then they wrote their name on a blank piece of paper and wadded it up. This paper served as a "snowball" that they could throw around the room. When someone else got the "snowball," they opened it up and wrote something positive about the other person. At the end of the exercise, students found their own snowball and read what others wrote. Then they had the option of dropping the snowballs in strategically placed snowmen throughout the buildings.
Several Laker Leadership Council members, who helped create the activity, led the lesson for the day. Snow much fun!!
R-Factor ideals focus us pressing pause, getting your mind right and making good life decisions.
ILHS Principal Kyle Wagner reminds us, "When you are resilient, you can remain strong and resist negative forces that want to push you in a direction you know is not right."