Project Reflections
Date |
Place |
Reflections |
10/05/05 |
I learned more about Dreamweaver and I was happy to help. | |
10/12/05 |
I like to learn
and help with all I can, I'm not a professional in web design but
I try. |
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10/17/05 |
Group collaboration and preparation for the Day of the Dead. | |
10/19/05 |
Working in my web
pages and helping other students. | |
10/19/05 |
We used engrudo
(flour and water mix), rip pieces of news paper, a balloon for the
first step. We pasted several layers of news paper to it dry. I will
let you know the last step later. |
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10/25/05
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Today I was able
to find a class to help with my community service project. The class
is a fourth and fifth grade Hi cap class. Mrs. Pegg, the teacher,
agreed to accommodate my request and was happy to do it. It was a
challenge to find a class because I already work in a classroom, I
did not want my community service to interfere with my working hours.
I get off of work half hour before the students, so I asked the principal
if I can do my community service project during this time; I also
asked the principal if I can do a garden where a tree was planted
in memory of a student who died in a car accident last year. The area
where the tree is planted is about 49' x 44' and needs a little care
and love. The elementary students and I will beautify the area with
agarden and learn together has a class and small groups with the supervision
of Mrs. Pegg. |
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10/29/05 |
After
a long day of school and visiting the Skokomissh Indian reservation,
the Day of the Dead group drove back to campus and finished the piñata
and discussed the final touches for the celebration. After the piñata
dry we used tissue paper for decoration. |
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10/30/05 |
home |
I got ready for
the celebration Day of the Dead |
10/31/05 |
Evergreen Elementary |
Today was my first
day with Mrs. Pegg's class, a mix of 4th and 5th graders. This is
a hicap class. They were very excited to do this project, especially
because of the student that died last year, that they all knew very
well. The tree has been planted in memory of him and the garden will
be a great addition. |
11/1/05 |
Evergreen Elementary |
Today the class
and I went outside to the playground. Where the garden area will be.
We measured the area and the students shared some ideas. We started
brainstorming. Some students gave some great ideas like, a path to
walk towards the tree, to build a bench, and to do stepping stones.
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11/02/05 |
Evergreen Elementary |
Mrs. Pegg was absent
today however I was able to work with the students with the supervision
of the substitute teacher. Today the students wrote the ideas for
the landscape of the garden and we talk about them. At the end I give
the students the assignment to draw a sketch of future garden. They
work and groups some students asked me if they can do their own for
home work. |
11/02/05 |
Campus |
It was nice to
have the opportunity to remember our love ones and to work has a group
and work together. |
11/03/05 |
Evergreen Elementary |
Today I had the
opportunity to observe the class. This is a well behave class with
more girls than boys. I can tell that the students are very happy
to learn and serve in the garden project; I think that is exciting
for them to be able to design, plant, build, and work together to
create a garden, no to many students in public school have the opportunity
to work and learn with nature. |
11/04/05 |
Evergreen Elementary |
I was excited to
see the landscape sketches of the garden that the students turned
in today. I put the eight sketches on the floor and the students came
and looked at them then we discussed the attributes of each of them.
We decided to vote for the three top ones, although we can consider
parts of all the sketches for the final one. This exercise helped
the students to judge and choose for what they thought was the right
sketch for the garden. Even though they knew they were going to use
a little of each map. I offered to put the three top ones together
and use some ideas of the other ones and bring it on Monday and see
if that is something they would like. |
11/06/05 |
Evergreen Elementary |
I got my ruler
and pencil out and tried to combine the three top sketches also with
the input of the other ones, so I could put a nice ariel landscape
map together. The students have done a good job, considering the area
with plants and flowers, a pathway for the tree, stepping stones for
around the trees and flowerbeds. Also a bench to sit and contimplate
the tree. |
11/07/05 |
Evergreen Elementary |
I presented the
sketch to the students and they were very happy what had come together
of their contributions and they agreed to proceed.Today also we talked
about plants and to start thinking what kinds of plants are proper
for this area. A lot of students already in mind what they wanted
to use. I gave them the assignment to ask their parents for ideas
and research what would be good for this garden. |
11/08/05 |
Evergreen Elementary |
The students turned
their list and information about plants and we talked about them.
Then today was the first day that they were able to work in groups.
I took them outside to remove some cement blocks that were in the
garden, so that they could be moved aside so that the students could
start pulling weeds. They were very happy because they saw worms under
the blocks and eggs of some type of insect. I think they were ant
eggs. They loved to get their hands dirty. |
11/09/05 |
Evergreen Elementary |
I took a different
group out and we did more clearing. |
11/13/05 |
Home |
Today I was able to work
in my web site. I took time to reflect on what the quarter has been.
I know that I have been more familiar with the program Dreamwever,
HTML coding and CSS. It is nice to learn about different ways to a
web site. |
11/14/05-11/16/05 |
Evergreen Elementary |
These three days I took different groups of students
outside to work in the garden project. We did some clearing of grass
and weeding.
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11/17/05 |
Evergreen Elementary |
We did some clearing in the garden. |
11/19/05 |
Home |
I decided to do a lesson sperate from my community service. so today I did a lesson on orange pumpkins. The lesson included useful ways to use pumpkins. We talked about the fairy tale of the Jack-O-Lanterns and the history of pumpkins. The question for the students to answer was, "What can you do with a pumpkin?", then the other half of the class was Roasting pumpkin seeds. For more details refer to curriculum web page. |
| 11/21/05 |
Evergreen Elementary
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Today we started marking the area for the plant beds and flower beds. |
11/22/05 |
Evergreen Elementary |
My lesson went great today. I set up everything when the kids were at recess. I brought like 10 pumpkins and set them up on newspapers, I also brought a microwave to the class. Along with spoons, strainers and salt. This class was about an hour long. First I showed the biggest pumpkin to the class and everyone got excited. We talked about how the pumpkin was a fruit. Also how the name "Jack-O-Lantern" was made up. We also talked about how pumpkins are true natives of North America. They were one of the first foods grown by the natives. Pumpkins kept early people alive and healthy. I gave the students a worksheet to write and draw about what they liked to do with a pumpkin. They shared some ideas with the other students in the class. They worked in groups to extract seeds from the pumpkins, but i cut the tops so they wouldn't have to use knives. Most of the kids used their hands to scoop the seeds into the strainer. Then they washed the seeds in the sink, then we put them in a plate in the microwave for about 6 or 7 minutes. If they weren't cooked we put them in for a little longer and we added salt. After they were cooked, we ate them. |
11/22/05 |
Home |
I spent this time to work on my website. I feel like I have progressed a lot. I have learned a lot about Dreamweaver, especially hand coding HTML, and CSS. However I will learn more. |
