My kids at SEAMAAC overall I feel are much more shy than my West Philly kids. So I wanted to work on some public speaking. Also I am having more kids trickle into the program. Overall, I am happy to see the same faces everyday.
We started the day playing a game where everyone stood in the middle of the room. Then I asked questions with two possible answers, such as "Do you prefer chocolate or vanilla?" All the kids who prefered chocolate walked to one side of the class and all the kids who prefered vanilla walked to the other side. If you liked both equally you had to stand in the middle. I continued doing this with a few other questions such as "Do you prefer basketball or baseball?" then later I let the kids get in front of the classroom and ask the questions. The point I was trying to make is that everyone has different preferences and how we need to take these preferences into account when creating our business. Then we had a contest.
The contest built upon a short lesson I did on surveying techniques. I wanted the kids to get up and interact with each other so I had each kid come up with a question with two possible answers on a piece of paper, and the kid to get 10 responses (with signatures) the fastest wins. Everyone completed their survey and later I pointed out some of the things I liked that the kids did. For example, saying "thank you" after someone answered your questions, or verbally asking "Can you please fill out this survey question?" instead of shoving a piece of paper in the person's face.
Then each child got up in the "speaking chair" and presented the results of their survey.
For the technology portion, I broke the class up in two again, and taught the kids very basic Microsoft Excel, and how to input the data that they collected. I was very impressed by how easily they got it! I think later on, I would like to move on to created graphs and pie charts.
Like Monday, Iris took the other group and they created on paper their "Dream Store Fronts" or "Business Logos."
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