What’s Challenge All About?

Hello Parents,

Challenge is about BIG ideas and hard questions. It’s about fun, inventing and brainstorming. It’s about challenge and choice.

The big three:

• Empathy:  What is empathy and how is it like a muscle?

Check out this video called The Power of Words showing empathy/apathy.

• Fixed or Growth Mindset? Powerful ideas from a book by Carol S. Dweck called Mindset: A New Psychology for Success. Here’s a quote: “If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence.” ― Carol S. Dweck
  

  

  
  

  This picture is from a gifted website called Byrdseed.

  
  
• Reading Zone:  An invisible world where readers go when they leave the classroom behind and live vicariously in their books.

We will be talking about all three ideas throughout the school year.  I hope they inspire your student to gain a better understanding of themselves and others.  

Mrs. Hektoen