Communication+Log

TUESDAY, MAY 11, 2010 FROM THE SITE DIRECTOR: FRIENDLY REMINDER FOR THE TECH TEAM! I KNOW THERE'S ONLY ONE WEEK LEFT BUT PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE DOING THE COMMUNICATION LOG WHEN YOU ARE ASSIGNED TO (IF YOU'RE NOT SURE ASK!) **__AND__** YOU NEED TO FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE TECH TEAM BOOK. IF THIS IS NOT DONE, YOU WILL NOT BE PAID. REMEMBER: THIS WILL IMPACT YOUR EVALUATIONS! ~PHUONG

THURSDAY, September 16th. Today Amber, Amy, and Caitlin worked today. The kids today played the desert typing racer game for ten minutes. after they finished the desert typing racer game they had free time where they played any game on freetypinggame.net. Once the kids were done playing the games, we had sit them down on the carpet where they watched The Diary of a Wimpy kid. Wrote By Caitlin

Wednesday, September 15th Today Kheri and Amy worked. We made some chances to the lesson, instead of doing a presentation on the computer we had the kids to the expectations on paper. We basically finish the lesson for Thursday also.Some of the younger kids who don't know how to write just practice writing their names on one piece of paper. We also went over the expectations with the whole class. We only have class from 4-5 because there's Cup Scout for the older kids and Rise for the younger kids. Wrote by Amy

monday september 13th caitlin trueblood, abdi osmen , amy nguyen , amber lani we finshed the lesson plans for all grades the only kid who received warning was Stephanie with her cell phone we had a good day *amy & amber*

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

From 3:15 to 4:00 the kids have free time to play non-violence games. From 4:00 4:15 the boys went to Mavis Beacon for 15 minutes and the girls have girl group 'till 5:30. First off we let the kids sat down on the floor and review about the book that they red yesterday. We asked some questions but basically went through it because many of the kids weren't there. The boy didn't get to finish the lesson and we left off on step 26. After that, the boys have Art so Amy went to help out with Art. Victoria was in the computer monitoring so kids who were to late to join group or were with their tutors. From 5:15 the girls come in and do Mavis Beacon for 10 minutes. Abdi and Noor were doing the lesson today and it's went well. Abdi let the kids gather on the carpet and went over with the book. Right after that they demonstrated what they need to do for the lesson. We got pretty close to finish the lesson with the girls but some of them have to leave early due to the weather. Warnings were giving out to Ngor Monday. And Travis got time out twice because he was misbehaving. We skip step 5 - 15 because we were short on time for both groups. No free time were giving out after the lesson today. Other than all the problem we encountered, today was a pretty slow day.

NOTE FOR WEDNESDAY'S WORKERS: PLEASE WRITE DOWN NAMES OF KIDS THAT DOESN'T HAVE A WIKISPACES PAGE.
THANK YOU :)

Victoria (4:00 - 6:00) Amy (3:00 - 6:00) Noor, Abdi (5:30 - 6:00)

Wrote by Amy

Tuesday 11, 2010 Today we started the day with Mavis Beacon. We had the kids do Mavis Beacon for about 15 min. Then we had all the kids sit down on the floor to start the lesson.The lesson was to review the book from yesterday and then have kids give a summary of the book. Here are some of the questions we asked the kids **Who were the characters?**, **Where did they go?**, **What was the problem?**, **How did the characters solve the problem?**, and **What happened in the end?**. Then we gathered the kids around one computer to model how to create their own comic strip. Then we had the kids go to this website http://www.pimpampum.net/bubblr to create their own comic strip. When they were done, they were allowed free time. Wrote by Noor ali

Monday, May 10, 2010

From 6-8 there isn't any problem with the kids who stayed from 6 - 7 no appropriate sites were visited by them. Ny was in the lab with his tutor. other kids were just playing games on the computer.

Amy, Kheri, Hussein Wrote by Amy

thrusday may 6th today we did the lesson plan. the bigger kids finished the lesson plan and had free time. the younger group didnt finsh and they had to share computers.

Wednesday may 5 Victoria and kheri today we started with Mavis beacon for 15 minutes.then when started with brinestrom somewords about thing they what to this summer.then they went to a computer then decided to do three thing they will need for six flag.then they went Google pick three picture then then they printed there picture. but bye the time they done they was no time for free time they had to go home. then raul got a warning for not listen to kheri when kheri sad stop talking. Wrote by Kheri.

Monday, May 3rd, 2010

From 3:30 to 4:30 we have the kids do Mavis Beacon and there were a mixture of kids were in the lab (K to 2, MS-HS) and we sat down to talked about what the do best at. we went around the circle answering question. But Raul and Daniqua had a hard time letting opther people talk when they have the talking piece. After that Amy told the kids to gather around one computer to show them how to get to Microsoft Office PowerPoint and what to write on them. Amy made them write about what are the favorite things they like to do at Bridge. Next off the kids get on their own computers and work on the project that they were assigned. Most ofthem have to doubled up on each computer. Many of the kids accidently closed out of PowerPoint before we got a chance to save it. The PowerPoint is saved in the My fav Things about bridge folder. At 5 the kids went to Cub Scout. And Kheri went to help out. Hussein stayed inside the lab to finish his Survey. Tashiba didn't work today. There wasn't any problem with the group of kids that were in the lab from 6-7.

Written by Amy Amy, Kheri, Hussein.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

From 4:00 to 4:15, the kids did Mavis Beacon. Then, for the next fifteen minutes, we went over what our lesson was over this week, celebrities. We reviewed how to write a letter, then we had the kids choose a person to write to. We chose to write to Taylor Lautner. We made an example letter. After the we made sure the kids knew what they were doing we showed them how to get to Microsoft Word again. Then, they went to their own computer and started writing. Some of the kids didn't look for pictures on Monday because they weren't here, so we had them look for pictures too. We skipped the rough draft part because we didn't get to do the lesson yesterday. Most of the kids finished. The kids were a little hard to control today but we didn't have to kid anybody warnings. From 5:00 to 6:00 was open lab. We didn't have the meeting today, so tech team members stay until 6.

Written by Victoria (: Amy, Victoria, Kheri

Tuyesday apil 27,2010

Today we worked on Mavis Beacan and the SSP/ESSP even know the test was very long but all the kids took the test and most of them finshed and some there parents came and took them away but about 96% of them took the test and they all finshed then we give the one that finshed a 10 minte free time befor they had to go home and most of the kids seem happy when we tell them they could have free time when they finish Mavis Beacan they all get to work and start typing some type it right and some just want to have free time.

amy abdi vitoria witer abdi/David

Monday, April 26, 2010

Today we started the lesson with Mavis Beacon for 15 minutes. The high school kids took the SSP survey. After that Amy let the kids sat down on the floor to explain the lesson that they would be doing. The kid got quickly on task and started the lesson right away. But afterward they're were many kids who came in late and we had to explain all over again. Troy set up the printer and the kids was be able to print out their pictures to cut and clue it on the construction paper that was provided. Some of the kids didn't get done today and Raul didn't get to print out his picture. They weren't many kids that get to have free time today. Warnings were give out to Raul and Justin due to their inappropriate behaviors. The kids from 6-8 didn't cause much trouble but Isha and Berwo were checking their email without telling one of the Tech Team member. And Mariamo took the ESSP survey today.

Amy, Kheri Wrote by Amy

Thursday April 22 2010 Today we started the day with the lesson. The lesson was to go to this web site Http:

www.epa.gov/recyclecity/mainmap.htm. Then we had the kids search for five questions. The questions were**: What is something that's made from recycled** tires? **What are old bricks used for**? **What is something that's made from milk cartons**? **Where is the electric car**? **How can coffee be reused**? Then they went to mircrosoft word to write their answers to the questions. Then after they were done they were allowed to have free time.

Tashiba, Kheri, Hussein, Noor.

Wrote by Noor.

Wednesday April 21 2010

Today we started with free time form 3:20 to 4:05 all of kids were having fun and till i sayed every one go to Mavis Beacon then every one said man can we just have free time all day

then i said i don't make the rules i just follow them like you then i got every one on the carpet and asked them what they did yesterday and what day is tomorrow what New holiday it is and some of them answered the right answer and some just said something else an asked me anther question but i think today was the best day they ever had and it's my best day to it was my first time i though the kids alone by my salt.

abdi victoria

written by abdi

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Today for the first fifteen minutes the kids did Mavis Beacan. After that, we gathered all the kids and told them to sit on the floor. For about ten minutes we had a brief discussion about Earth Day. We asked the kids what holiday we're going to celebrate this week and then we asked them if they knew what endangered animals were. We defined what the word is then we asked them to give some examples of what animals are endangered. Then, Kheri showed the kids how to create the cartoon. We went to [|www.fluxtime.com/animate.php]. After the kids finished the assignment, they played the Earth day game.

Victoria, Amy, Kheri Written by Victoria.

Monday, April 19th, 2010

Today, we didn't do the lesson plan because it was a early release day and there were only 10 kids at bridge so we let the kids play games and have free time on the computer for an hour from 1 to 2. Some of the kids gether with Amy and make paper stars. After that all the kids have Scout and they all went outside and do their activities. No lesson plan was done today. Phuong will email Margret gives her a heads up on that. Tashiba and Kheri went to help Sergio with Scout and Amy went to do her homework with Phuong. Also, the group that come from 6 - 7 didn't have any problem of going to restricted sites.

Tashiba, Amy, Kheri. Written by Amy.

Thursday April 15

Today we let the kids go to Mavis Beacon for the first 15 minutes and then we let them all sit down on the carpet to start the lesson. The lesson was to let the kids write about three things that they were going to do this summer. And than after they were done we let them sit back down on the carpet to share what they wrote. But before they shared what they wrote, we told them the lab expectations. They were to be respectful, do not disturb and so on after we were all done. We let them back on the computers and let them have some free time.

kheri hussin noor Written by Noor Ali.

Wednesday April 14, 2010

Today we stared the day with free time and at 4:15 all the kids gather on the carpet and i read a story that was form anther Bridge project writing by a student that was on the 3rd the student was taking about her favorite animal what she like to cook what grade she in. then the west wood students told what they had in command with the girl and then we ask them what the title of the story was the Date was the persons name where it was form an what was the persons favorite animals an her subject then they wrote letter to the Bridge leaders thanking them for all the help they give to them then it was 5:00 so we closed and we couldn't print the letters form yesterday to read to them.

abdi, victoria, amy Wrote by abdi

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

The girls had Girl's Scouts, so at 4:00 they left. The boys stayed and we taught them the letter writing lesson. Raymond and Memphis were a handful and they were very hard to handle. The other boys were good though. At 4:30 all of the boys except for Memphis and Raymond left to go to art. Later on, Ahmed and Mrijohn came in and we taught them the lesson individually. Malchi aslso came in later, but he was being really rude and he left. For the rest of the time, the boys had free time. The girls came at 5:30 but there was too many people and some of the boys were still in here so we just gave all the girls and boys free time for the rest of the thirty minutes.

-Victoria Lam Victoria, Amy, Kheri, Noor, and Abdi worked today.

Monday, April 12, 2010

Today we let the kids go to Mavis Beacon for the first 15 minutes and let them all sit down on the carpet to start the lesson. The kids from grade 3-5 have group so we have some middle school students and kindergartens kids. First of Amy started off by asking the kids if they know what a friendly or a nice letter is like and let them brainstorming some ideas. After that we Amy gather the kids around one computer to demonstrated what they will be doing later on. Then Amy let them do their individual's works. All of the kids finish the lesson today. The kids then have free time until Cup Scout start. There wasn't many kids who stayed back for computer from 6-8 today. Mostly what they did was playing games on the computer. No problem with the kids getting on YouTube or Myspace ect.

Amy, Hussein. Wrote by Amy.

Thursday April 8

Today we had the student go to a computer do 5miunts of mavis beacon.then we ask how ever won spring was .the student were good but travis had one warning.then all did listen to a story on the website www.tumblebooklidrary.com. then after they played games on same website that they listen to a story on there. then they had freetime

amy kheri hussin noor Wrote by Kheri

Wednesday April 7 2010

abdi victoria amy wrote by abdi

Today when the kids came they started with free time that was befor tech team had started they all were happpy and i think today was most funest day they ever had because they read books they wanted to read so no one was angary about doing the work.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Today, there weren't any kids in the computer lab from 3:30 till 5:30 because the little boys get to watch movies with Mayumi and the girls have girls scout. So the Tech Team members went to help out with group and tutoring for the kids. After they were finish with groups, we started the lessons plan and let them go to Mavis Beacon and type for 15 minutes. After that we started the lesson plan by going to [|www.readwritethink.org/materials.shape/] to make a shape poem. It's only girls computer so the boys didn't do computer today. Victoria give the kids the directions and explanations to introduce to the kids what's a shape poem. The kids then get to their own computers to work on the lesson plan. Everything went well but there were many misunderstanding too. With different age groups they were many distractions in the lab. After that Noor took over and he was in the lab from 6:00 - 8:00.'

Victoria, Amy, Kheri, Abdi, Noor. Wrote by Amy.

Monday, April 5, 2010

Today, from 3:30 - 5:00 we start the day by reminding them about the Lab Expectations and we let the kids sit down in a circle to talk about their Spring Break and what was there favorite part. After that we let the kids gather around one computer to demonstrate what they have to do next. So we showed them how to get to Microsoft PowerPoint. After that the kids were told to make five slides about what they did during their Spring Break and go to AskKids.com to find pictures for each slide. Jordon and Raul were very distracting today during the discussion and we have to stopped many times to remind them. All of the kids powerpoint were saved in the USB under folder "Spring Break pp." THe older kids didn't get ta chance to do the lesson today because they have Cup Scout the younger kids didn't have any free time. From 6:00 to 7:00 some of the kids come in the computer lab to have free time and wait for their parent to pick them up. We have no problem of kids logging into social network sites or inappropriate sites.

Amy, Tashiba, Hussein. Wrote by Amy.

Tuesday March 23, 2010

Today we taught the boys the lesson from 4:00 to 5:00. The girls didn't come until 5:20 because they had Girl's Scouts. The boys got here a little late today, so we let them have five minutes of free time at the beginning. At 4:10 we told the boys to log onto Mavis Beacon and they typed for fifteen minutes. At 4:25, we started the lesson. We told the boys to log off and sit on the floor. Then we asked them if they knew what the topic was this week. We had a tiny discussion about spring then we asked them if they knew what poems were. We taught them the word acrostic. We showed them what acrostic poems look like and we made them do a sample one with us. Then, we showed the boys how to make an acrostic poem on the computer. The boys then went off and worked on the assignment. We gave Sabastion, Murjon and Admed warnings today. They wouldn't listen to us teach and they were being disruptive. However, by the end they started behaving better. The lesson went pretty well; we completed the entire lesson. At 5:00 the boys went to Boy's Group. At 5:20, the girls came in. We told them to do Mavis Beacon for ten minutes, then we told them to sit on the ground and we taught the same lesson. They girls were really good. We went through the lesson really quick because they were focused and payed attention. We didn't have to give any warnings.

Amy, Victoria, Abdi, Kheri Wrote by Victoria.

Monday, March 22, 2010

Today we let the younger kids get on Mavis Beacon for 20 minutes because Amy was talking to Andrew and Travis outside due to their behaviors. So we started the lesson a bit behind today. Tashiba went to www.puzzlemaker.com instead of going to Microsoft Office to create table and such which is a great idea. Most of the kid were behaving but Andrew got sent home, Travis was in trouble, Angelo got one warning, and Ty'Airah got sent to Phuong's office. The lesson went quite smooth and well today. We have Cup Scout that's why the older kids didn't get a change to do the lesson.

Tashiba, Amy, Hussein. Wrote by Amy.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Today we let the older kids go to Mavis Beacon and let them sit on the floor talking about their favorite food and what pet they want to have. Then we started on the lesson plan. At the end, Amy let the kids have some free time. The younger kids had literacy with Lisa. When the little kids come we sat down and asked them about what holiday was yesterday, what their favorite food, and what pet they want to have. Also, with the younger kids we didn't do the lesson plan. Instead, we play Hot Potato and Sneaky Status. Because they were very behaving during the week. The little kids were loud and Justin, Travis, Kennedy, and Jordon got warnings.

Amy, Kheri, Hussein Wrote by Amy.

Wednesday March 17, 2010

Today at west wood we started the class with questions asking the kids what they did yesterday an what they learned from it then we asked them what Holiday it is today and some kids answered and some didn't even try so we did St. Patricks day bingo on Microsoft Office.

Today's worker were Victoria, Tashiba, Abdi Wrote by abdi osman

Tuesday March 16, 2010

We started the website www.miniclip.com/sketch-star/en/ then for girls they listen to a story. But we didn't do much because they had girls scout the boys had art.

Amy, Victoria, and Kheri Wrote by Kheri

Monday March 15, 2010

Today we started the lesson plan. Tashiba read Fin M'Coul to the kids and asked them questions involving the book. After reading the book, the kids logged on www.miniclip.com/sketch-star/en and got on sketch star. Because there was a little bit of time for the kids to go to cubs scouts, the younger kids were able to play the tutorials on the sketch star. Warnings were gave out to Travis and Kennedy.

Tashiba, Hussein, and Amy Written by Tashiba

Thursday, 3/11/10

Today we did Mavis Beacon for fifteen minutes, did read book for them and went this website [|www.fluxtime.com/animate.php]. So the kids could create what they like and showed them how to use.For An example, they could create a house or dent in the website.They were using free create in the website. After that we played game. We gave the free time to play.

Today workers were Kheri, Amy, and Hessein Hussein the one wrote this.

Tuesday, March 9th

Today, the first thing we did was have the kids do the Mavis Beacon for fifteen minutes. The girls had girl scouts today, so only the boys did computers. After Mavis Beacon, we had the boys sit on the floor. We asked them questions about what they did yesterday, like what book they read and what the book was about and such. Then, we got the kids to gather around one computer and we showed them how to do the lesson today. Some of the kids not behaving like they should be as an example Justin, Murjon, and Kennedy. We got to step 19 on the Monday and Tuesday lesson plan. So please finish the rest there's time this week.

Kheri 3:30 - 6:00 Victoria 4:00 - 6:00 Amy 3:00 - 6:00 Abdi 4:30 -8:00

Victoria, Amy, Kheri, Abdi Wrote by Victoria

Monday, March 8th, 2010

Today we started with letting the kids go to Mavis Beacon for 15 minutes and let them sit down on the carpet for the lesson. First off, Amy let Daniqua read the Book (Totem Tale) because she volunteered, but the kids didn't listen to the story very well and we have to stop every five seconds to tell them to listen up and be quite. So when Tashiba comes, Amy started to take out the candy to grab the kids' attentions. Tashiba red the book and stop after each page to asked them questions and give out candy to whoever answer the questions correctly. Right after the candies were gone the kids went wild again. And there were a lot of kids who don't listen and running around the class. Nasir, Murjon, Raul, Ty'Airah, Travis, Kennedy, Tabari, and Haji were the troublemakers today. Hussein was watching over Nasir so he calm down a little bit at the end. Tashiba made the kids put their heads down for ten minutes before switching to Cup Scout. So we didn't get as far as we expect. We basically got to step 9 on the lesson plan. The older kids (MS-HS) didn't to the lesson plan today. So please finish the rest tomorrow. Tashiba came at 4, Hussein came at 4, and Amy came at 3.

Notice
 * Many of the new kids don't have a wikispace page yet so please write down the names of the kids that doesn't have a wikispaces page and one of the Tech Team member will make them one. Thanks.

Hussein, Tashiba, Amy Wrote by Amy

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Today Hussein, Kheri, and Amy worked today. Today, we didn't do Mavis Beacon instead we sit in the circle and asked them what color would they color their day and why. We also finish the lesson and let the kids post their poems on their wikispaces. And after that we let the kids play a game, Silent Ball and Sneaky Statues. Many kids participate and that what's the advantage of today lesson. Even though, many kids didn't listen and being kind of noisy. We also have a talking piece which is the plastic clip and the green ball. The younger kids have about five minutes of free time, Jordan and Andrew was pull out of the lab today because Phuong caught them pushing each other. =] Everything basically went well today.

Hussein, Kheri, Amy Wrote by Amy

Wednesday, March 3rd

Today Tashiba, Abdi, and Victoria worked. Amy and Tati volunteered. First we had the kids do Mavis Beacon for 15 minutes. Then we told the kids to sit in a circle. We asked them who's birthday it was on Monday then we talked about the rhymes they made yesterday. Afterward, we told the kids to gather around one computer while Victoria showed the kids how to make an animation that goes with the rhyme. The kids then went to their own computers and made rhyme. The kids then went to their own computers and made animations. All the kids finished early so we read Green Eggs and Ham and then save them free time. The kids were good today except Raul and Malchai got two warnings.

Victoria, Tashiba, Abdi, Amy Wrote by Victoria