Project Log
| Date | Hours | Activity | Total Hours |
| 1/12/06 | 30min | Spoke with Brian Duke and 2nd grade teachers about the project idea. | |
| 1/18/06 | purchased Haiku Journal wrote first Haiku | ||
| 1/19/06 | wrote second Haiku while shadowing second grade student (nonverbal-downs) during class time. Students were coloring dino-habitats | ||
| 1/20/06 | 20min | sunrise haiku I wrote at lunch after approaching Brian Duke about the project and calling Ginny Wicklund about the project. | less than an hour |
| 1/21 | 30min | I went for a long walk around campus and visited the childcare center for the first time. I was interested in the trained trees growing there and the ones around campus. I am wondering if they are willows. I wonder if I could plant a hazelnut dome at my house? Met for lunch with the edu/cur group to come up with a schedule | |
| 1/23 | 1hr30 | I thought that I would do a project working with the second graders at my school. We were going to make journals, go for a walk, and write haiku's. If no one minds I am still going to write Haikus, but I have decided to pursue another project. I am walking into a lack of enthusiasm. In the afternoon after school I helped the first grade teacher (who I work with everyday) hang up bulletin boards. We brain stormed about a project. Out of 24 four student in our class there are five who are bilingual. One of which is struggling in every area. My plan is to follow the ELL teacher and then develop some activities not just for this one student. The ELL teacher serves many schools and is not only hard to contact, she isn't there for very long. I am hoping that from what I can learn from her I can become a tutor for some of our struggling kids. | 2:50 |
| 1/24 | 30min | Writing emails to the D.O. for permission to do the project, and to the ELL teacher. Faxing paperwork. | |
| 1/25 | 30min | met with the edu/cur group to choose a book. | 3:50 |
| 1/26 | 30min | Sent more emails and made phone calls trying to track down this teacher. I might have to follow the speech or other teacher. | 4:20 |
| 1/28 29 | 4 hours | On saturday I got the tour of the longhouse garden and met with the group for the first time. Purchased and began reading "the Schools Our Children Deserve" for the edu group. | 8:20 |
| 1/30 | 2 :40 | I have been sick since Wednesday and tryingto hang in there. Read from edu group book for two hours. At work I sent emails and made phone calls trying to chase down the ELL teacher. Still no luck. | 11hours |
| 1/31 | 2:25 | Volunteered in the school library searching for books that have won the Corretta Scott King award, creating a list and then finding them in the our library so that the librarian can share them with the students. 25min.For two hours I attended the Tumwater Environmental Education Commitee meeting. Normally the meeting is attended by teachers from all over the district, all grades. We talk about ways to fit science into an already packed curriculum. Today we talked about the science wasl. A rep from ESD 113 brought example questions and student responses to share. Her intent was to show how the tests are scored. I was mystified and ticked off by what I learned, but like the other educators there I was polite. I have the examples if anyone would like to see them. |
13:25 |
| 2/1 | 35 min | Met with edu seminar group and talked about the book. Talked about being discouraged from entering the traditional public school setting. I shared the wasl info. I think that what Hirsh said in class is important here, to "Look for evolutions instead of revolutions." Also spent more time on the library project - but not so much as a volunteer. | 14hours |
| 2/3 | 2:30 | reading for seminar and taking care of cousins and emails | 16:30 |
| 2/4 | 1:30 | seminar mtg after class. We talked about the book and how it is a frustrating read. | 18:00 |
| 2/6 | 4:00 | reading both the Alfie edu book and the book How children Learn Language. I am starting to dig Alfie. He is starting to talk proactively about mending the education system. In H.C.L.L. I am getting the vocabulary and the timeline of language development. | 22:00 |
| 2/7 | :45 | volunteer at the THE library, shelving and pulling books | 22:45 |
| 2/7 | 2:00 | Met with the Tumwater School District Enviromental Education Committee. We went over a bird curriculum, followed through some activities that could be presented to most age groups. The beak adaptation activity was especially fun. We looked at how to "Wasl-ize" the activities. | 24:45 |
| 2/8 | 1:00 | longhouse mtg and reading | 25:45 |
| 2/9 | 1:00 | reading for edu seminar | 26:45 |
| 2/9 | 2:00 | pruned the forsythia and started a waddle barrier with the twigs. it is finally sunny enough out and day light long enough to work in the yard. loving new work in the yard assignment. it might be already done for me, I need to make it more challenging. I have already drawn the maps of my yard and photographed it and written down my dreams, that journal is five years old | 28:45 |
| 2/10 | :15 | reading at work, journalling with the kids while at work, working and thinking and seeing ways my education relates to my work, in some ways I took the day off to think about my birthday brother who died three years ago today | 29:00 |
| 2/11 | 1:00 | met with Victoria intending to have an edu-seminar mtg at Ottos, but we talked about the gardening project instead. what it means to us and what are we going to do - what we do do | 30:00 |
| 2/13 | 2:00 | reading for seminar about whole language - watched first grader sit unmotivated for twenty minutes saying he couldn't write in his journal because he doesn't know where he would go if he could go anywhere. Tried to motivate him the way John Holt would, but public school style as well. That was hard. Then I went to the library and ran into Lavinia who said "I remember you, you ESLed me in sxth grade. She is a junior now. Picked up more books | 32:00 |
| 2/16 | 0:00 | A first grader asked me about my journal during journal writing time and instead of explaining it I asked Caleb if he could and he explained everything perfectly down to how many syllables are in a haiku. Now if he would just write one with out me asking him to. | |
| 2/23 | 1:00 | mtg with Bev about bird adaptation experiment | 33:00 |
| 3/6 | 3:00 | library finding bird books | 36:00 |
| 3/7 | 4:00 | volunteered in the library pulling books for the season. 2hrs in Environmental Education Committee. 1hr illustrating haiku's | 40:00 |
| 3/8 | 1:00 | began bird project in 4th grade. introduced how to use binoculars, the books I picked out, and read a poem about waterfowl. made and distributed an extra credit packet | 41:00 |
| 3/9 | 2:00 | reading prep and instruction. today we talked about bird feet and bird beaks and why they differ | 43:00 |
| 3/10 | 6:00 | took a personal leave day so that I would have enough time to do the bird beak adaptation project. The day included a Mrs. Phillips class only recess, prep, and demonstrating examples of books at the school library. | 49:00 |
| 3/11 | 2:00 | illustrating haikus | 51:00 |
| 3/13 | 1:00 | follow up after experiement | 52:00 |
| 3/14 | 1minute | the first fourth grader to see and focus the binoculars on a bird identified a P-51 Mustang. I thought that was cool. And he did too. | 52:01 |
| 3/17 | I just spent a couple of hours trying to upload my presentation and garden stuff, my hands are going numb and something went wrong. So if it isn't there, I am sorry. You'll have to see what I have in person. |
