Today was my first "official day." I am so happy to have the support of the wonderful staff at SEAMAAC. I truly feel lucky to have them. In the morning I met with my two supporting teachers, Iris and Peter and we went over the lesson plans for the day. Since we have such a large group, we decided to break up the 30 students into 2 groups according to age --- Junior 1 and Junior 2.
I talked briefly about what the business project will be like and we played the name game again. Lillian joined us and we brainstormed about some business ideas. Lillian emphasized the importance of community, and what we can do to better our community and honor our heritage.
Some of the business ideas the kids came up with were....
1) a lead pencil store
2) a pet sitter
3) a person to give rides
4) a video game fixing service
5) a grocery store
6) a swimming pool
7) a rent-a-bike service
8) a zoo
After our morning circle I took one group of kids up to the computer lab and did a brief and simple tutorial of Power Point. Then I introduced the kids to the thumb drives that were given by PECO and gave them an assignment to create their own Power Point presentations: All About Me. They were really absorbed into this activity and did a great job. Many wanted to keep working on this project and make it better. I told them they had to make at least 5 pages and they included information about their families, friends, favorite foods and tv shows. Simultaneously, Iris had the other group downstairs in the classroom and the kids worked on Module 1 on paper. I know this must not have been exciting for them but we didn't have a projector.
Then we switched groups. I was very impressed by how at-ease these kids were with computers. It made me hopeful.
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