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Core Asset Manual

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Core Asset Manual
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Mentor Ideas

This section will be for ideas that our mentors have shared!
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Spring 2025 Community Activities

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Smart Board Activities

Smart Board Games
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10 Activities to Help Teach Executive Functioning in Kids

10 Fun Activities that Teach Executive Functioning to Kids
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Conversation Starters

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Dice Debrief.pdf
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Activities for Connecting

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Activities for Connection
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Emotional Intelligence Activities
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Critical Thinking Activities

81 Fun Critical Thinking Activities
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How to Teach Critical Thinking to Kids and Teens
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Additional Reading and Resources:

  • Providing Emotional Support and Empathy
  • Practicing Cultural Humility
  • Making Room for Fun and Play
  • Understanding Effective Online Communication
  • Working with Others in the Mentoring Relationship
  • Honoring Youth Voice and Building Power
  • Building Critical Consciousness and Youth Activism
  • Goal Setting and Support
  • Expanding Networks of Support
Additional Reading and Resources
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Becoming a Better Mentor: Strategies to Be There for Young People

Becoming a Better Mentor: Strategies to Be There for Young People
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Deeper Conversation Topics

Below are a list of Conversation Topics you can have with your mentee.  Whether you are meeting in-person or virtually, these topics will help create a deeper discussion between the two of you.  I encourage you, as mentors, to answer these questions too with your mentee. 
  • Tell me about your favorite teacher.
  • Talk about a time when you laughed so hard you thought you couldn't stop.
  • Name something you have always wished you could do. How could you make it happen?
  • Complete this sentence:  One way I'd like to change the world is...
  • What is the biggest mistake you've made in your life? What did you learn from it?
  • What are three things about you that your friends would say make you a good friend to have?
  • If you could describe your ideal day, what would it be like?
  • How do you handle a situation when someone lies to you?
  • What is your biggest dream?  What is the first step you can take toward achieving it?
  • What is a subject or topic that isn't taught in your school, but one you would really like to learn about?
  • What is one thing about your cultural heritage that you are really proud of?
  • What do you do when you disagree with the rules you are supposed to follow?
  • When people first meet you, what do you think they see?  What do you with they would see in you?
  • If you could achieve only one great thing in your life, what would it be?
  • You fast-forward 50 years and discover a new holiday is named in you honor.  What would people be celebrating about you?

Virtual Ways to Connect During COVID

  • Virtual show and tell
  • Rock, paper, scissors tournament
  • Make a collaborative music playlist
  • Exciting Sponge
    • Similar to show and tell, but you will grab an object at arms length then create a story about it.
  • Build a story 
    • Start the story, then your mentee builds on it, continue for however many turns you would like to do.
  • Watch a movie together
    • Netflixparty.com or start it at the same time - Link to Netflixparty.com
  • Gamepigeon​ App - FREE
    • ​iMessage Game App - Link to Gamepigeon
  • Houseparty App - FREE
    • Game Playing App - Link to Houseparty
  • ParticipACTION App - FREE
    • Fun ways to help stay Active - Link to ParticipACTION

Free Virtual Tours

  • 40+ Virtual Trips
    • https://kidsactivitiesblog.com/135714/virtual-field-trips40 virtual
  • Ripley's Aquarium's Live Streams Walk With Penguins & Watch Octopus Feedings
    • www.narcity.com/things-to-do/ca/on/toronto/ripleys-aquariums-virtual-events-will-transport-you-to-an-underwater-world
  • Virtual Museums
    • artsandculture.google.com/partner/van-gogh-museum
  • Virtual Rides on Disney attractions
    • www.popsugar.com/family/videos-virtual-disney-rides-47314693

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Transforming Lives, One Child at a Time
Circle of Friends
PO Box 1718
164 N Elm
Sisters OR, 97759
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www.circleoffriendsoregon.org
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