Update on Tuesday's Class

I'm writing this post while also watching the Olympics.  Wow, I wish I had some of those athlete's energy!  Speaking of Olympics, this is how we started off our night on Tuesday.  We talked about our favorite sport to watch - all of us agreed that you must have to be crazy to do some of those sports, like downhill skiing. 

We talked a lot about some of the topics we want to start learning about.  There were some great ideas and I have a lot of work ahead of me to start preparing some new lessons.  I'll be visiting with Kristin to get some of her resources to use in developing some plans for future classes.  A couple of the main ideas included advocating for ourselves, dating tips and ideas and taking care of our money so we are able to do the fun things that we want to. 

We watched another People Smart video and then ended up the night with reading our book.  We are getting closer to the end of the book, so I need to order the new ones soon.  I think we are all ready to read something new :). 

Remember that class is at the Kenny Anderson Community Center next Tuesday.  This is hooked on to the Anne Sullivan Elementary.  They said they would have some signs up with arrows pointing the way to our room.  The signs should either say my name or book club.  I'll also try to be there early enough to greet everyone at the front door. 

Letter Coming Home

I sent a letter home with everyone last night, so if you haven't received it yet, please check with them.  The letter addresses their requests to host class at their houses and a couple of other requests that I had from families to arrange carpooling.  You do not need to respond to either of these requests, only if you want to. 

Class will be at the Kenny Anderson Community Center next week - this is a new location for us.  I apologize that it is so far away for many of you, but it was the only place I could book.  I also sent a new schedule home last night and will continue to look for creative places to hold class.  Thanks to all of you for your ideas! 

Look for another post tomorrow night on what we did for class this week.  It was a great class, even though our room was incredibly chilly :).  Have a great night! 

Chana's Here!

We watch a video about Don’t be too Critical and talk about the new schedule and talk about where we are going to meet for the next Month. And now we are going to read our books.

February 23rd Meeting Agenda

Class Agenda


February 23, 2010

Ice Breaker – What is your favorite Olympic sport?

Review Agenda

Items to talk about

• Updates on schedule and meeting location (handout of new schedule)

• Updates on transportation to and from class (handout of letter to families)

• Talk about activities for March and April

1. Money

2. Friends

3. Speaking out for ourselves

4. Other

People Smart Video: Don’t Be Too Critical

Break (writing on blog – Chana and Bryce)

Read books

Class Location

Remember we have class again tomorrow night.  We will be meeting at the Caille Branch Library on 49th street out by Sertoma Park.  Plan on being there from 6:30pm - 8:30pm.  I'll post the agenda for class sometime later tonight. 

Great to be back!

I really had a lot of fun Tuesday getting back together with everyone. As you can see from the earlier posts, we spent a lot of time reviewing the decisions that were made when we met with everyone last in January. We also planned for some new activities and read our books.

I wanted to make sure that everyone had their opinions heard. To do that, I had everyone, on their own, rate how they felt about the decisions that were already made. Everyone filled out the form by themselves and then had an option to list other things that they would like to see. I compiled the results and then we talked about each item in detail. At the end, everyone had a chance to vote if they wanted to move forward with our decision. There was only one item that did not pass by a unanimous vote, but even then everyone was happy with the final decisions.

So, you are probably wondering what those decisions were, aren't you? Well, not to keep you waiting any longer, here you go:

1. Meeting location - as you know, we changed the meeting location from Gustaf's to the library this time to make sure everyone would be comfortable. The group decided that they wanted to rotate the meeting location as much as possible. I was tasked with finding some new locations for the next several weeks and to bring a schedule with me to our class next week.
2. Meeting date & time - there were some ideas to change the meeting date to Monday, but in the end everyone voted to keep it on Tuesdays from 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm.
3. Fun activity - the group decided to do something fun together once every 6 weeks. It was decided that the group would make a decision on what this activity would be & that it had to be a unanimous decision. We will having our first activity at the mall and I'll give more details about that later on.
4. Parents driving - everyone wasn't that happy that their parents were driving them home. It seems like everyone really enjoyed that time together in the car on the way home. Unfortunately, there were no options to change this at this time unless the group decides to split into 2 groups - and no one wanted to do that.

I'll post a schedule once I get that finished.

February 16th Class Agenda

Class Agenda
February 16, 2010

Items to talk about
• Review new class structure (i. Meeting time, ii. Transportation to and from class, iii. Meeting location, iv. Eating out, v. New class title)
• Are there things we want to change?
• Talk about activities for February and March (i. Planning fun activity, ii. Topics to learn about (1. Money, 2. Friends, 3. Speaking out for ourselves, 4. Other))

Character Crossword Puzzle

Read books

Anne

If you are just joining us, it has been awhile since we have posted anything. We made a time change. We discussed about changing places to eat. We still are reading the same books from last time.

hey my name is Erin

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