5th Grade Mentors

• Focus on your strengths and superpowers
  
• Always be kind
  
• Show empathy and understand what they're going through
• Always look at them and don't get distracted
  
• Hold thumb up on one hand and pinky on the other hand. Try and switch them fluently and say the poem, "Empathy, it's empathy. Empathy, it's empathy. When you put yourself in place of me, it's empathy."
• Be patient
  
• Let the butterfly struggle by helping them learn but letting them come up with a solution to their problem
  
• Kindness is the real global warming
• Find your superhero, somebody that you look up to and that is always there for you
• Be their superhero by being kind, honest, understanding, enthusiastic, respectful, and empathetic
• Find connections with them
• Play icebreakers like That's Me, when you say something about you and the other person says either, "That's me!" if they can connect or, "That's not me" if they are not similar.

• Who is your superhero?
• If you were a flavor of ice cream, which one would you be and why?
• What is your dream job?
• What do you think is your superpower?
• Where is your favorite place to go on vacation?
• Comparison is the thief of joy. Don't compare yourself to others and improve yourself
• You can't be better than your best
• Make a shield to protect you from bad things and decorate it to show the good things about you
  

1. Who's your real-life superhero? Why?
   
2. Whose superhero are you? Why?
   
3. What's your superpower? Describe it.
   
4. How do you use that superpower for good?
5. What's your Kryptonite? {what weakens you?} Describe it.
   
6. How are you going to ensure that the student you work with leaves feeling better about themself?

1. My real life superheroes are my parents and grandparents. My parents always help me to get better and they are proud of me just for who I am. My grandparents also are my superheroes because they have so many great stories to tell, and I want to be just like them and make the most of everything.
2. I am my cousins' superhero because they are always looking up to me and repeating what I do. I am also my sister's superhero because even though we fight sometimes, she wants to be like me and we talk about things that bother her so I can help her feel better.
3. My superpower is that I can understand what people are feeling and why even though they might not show it. I can understand how they are feeling and I can help them feel better.
4. Whenever I know that someone doesn't feel so great, I can help them to understand about the problem. Then they can feel better about them self!