Overall this class ended up going a little bit better, actually a lot better than the first class. So I made a point to set class rules a little bit differently this time and really have emphasis on the no running and things like that and really get that consensus with them that we all work together to make these rules. And these are our class agreements and reminder that if you're here that's because you want to be here. So let's all be present. So that messaging seemed to work and resonated with them. So then basically What I started the class off and the focus of the activity was to do an improv activity and really to do a lot of like Hands-On acting out. However, this ended up being something fun for them. It ended up taking the whole class, instead of acting out the roles. We actually went around and we kind of did an improv. How do you call it like, story writing activity, where everybody who contributed their part to the story. What we did after that is, we assign roles to the story. And so the next step for the next class as we all agreed upon would be. That we're going to create an actual script. So we discuss the difference between a story versus a script and they were pretty knowledgeable. I'm not. So that's going to be the focus of the next class. And then finally, for I would say, like the last five to seven minutes of the class. Before before dismissal, we did have a dance party which was promised to them if they were engaged and respectful and all that other stuff which I think again, like helped with, you know, their behavior and things like that and their attention on the subject. Order. So, we had that dance party at the end and they were happy and then and then just was will happen. So overall, this was definitely a better class than before. I do want to add a note that the student that was causing a few behavior issues in the, in the first class was actually not there today. So, it was a pretty small group of four. Hopefully, the enrollment isn't affected by this class because, you know, these kids seem to have a lot of fun. But, yeah, I think that that did make somewhat of a difference but overall, yeah, it was but good classroom. Before the next one.

So today was the first class of the 12-week series and I kind of used this class to gauge the skill, level, the personalities, and the energy of the kids. So I did have a plan for today, which included kind of running through the basics and intro, you know, just basic theory of drama their daughter and then basically challenging them to use their acting skills, to just kind of see where we were all at terms of skill level or understanding. So we did do that. That today, but the class somewhat did get derailed. So, the agenda was a little chaotic, but at the end of the day, the goals of kind of reviewing, everybody's knowledge about like, you know, theater and drama fundamentals, everybody's favorite performance. And then I basically used most of the class to whiteboard and brainstorm and do like the consensus building thing for, where everybody was on, like what they wanted to do. So, I heard that some kids wanted to do like a disco a dance. 30. And then some other kids wanted to do a theater performance. So it was a small group of five kids, but we are going to refine that idea or probably into some kind of final performance is going to maybe look like a dance party or something fun, but it will be a performance of the parents involved. So that's where I kind of see us going in the next few weeks. I think it's going to be a lot of fun and hopefully, you know, the agenda will kind of go through better next time, but this was a fun class and it was really for me to kind of see where everybody was at. Get to know the Kids for them to get to know me, but so far so good, you know, no major, no major issues yet. This is only the first class. There is one out of the five kids who was a little vocal and kind of straight away from, you know, doesn't really follow directions. But, you know, I think I'm also just learning how to be more patient and to set expectations early on and keep reinforcing those instructions. So, that's an overall summary for today's class.

So for this class, for sort of 3:45 p.m. today, I started the class off the same way I started the last class off, which was by basically writing the class rules. Like when I'm talking, please be quiet and raise your hand. If you have a question and then when I say grasshopper, grasshopper is a grasshopper kids. So I really made an effort to set those big in the class like I did last time and that seemed to work. So then we finally got into the craft activity after I introduce what they would be doing today. Today's activity was focused on on making either a weird turkey for Thanksgiving season or making like an alien animal using like different parts of other animals are brought a book about how to draw different animals. So you know, that I could walk around and show them how to draw different different parts, but most of the classes end up wanting to draw turkeys and I showed them how to trace it with their hands. Some of them are already familiar with that method, so that took up the duration of the class, I then told them, if they cleaned up and completed cleanup, Appropriately and quietly, then we can have a quiet dance party at the end. So last time, I did not clarify that the dance party need to be quiet, but I really made an effort to reinforce with them and make sure that they understood. We were having a quiet dance party and it ended up going well and had a lot of fun. So that was my closure, and closing or goodbye activity for class, and that's a summary of his class.

So for today's crafts plus animals class, I started the first 10 minutes of Class off with setting basic classroom rules. Like when the teacher is talking, no one else is talking. If you have a question, raise your hand, be kind to each other and then finally trying to use the grasshopper grasshopper and then grasshopper kids response. And basically, I introduced the activity which was basically making a fall animal or Thanksgiving animal since we're Thanksgiving season and the holidays and I basically had the first 10 minutes focus on that as well as like a little animal brainstorm. So the kids came up with a pretty large list of different animals that you might see Around The Fall season. And then, finally, in the next 40 minutes, we got into the activity which today I ended up repurposing the white paper bag activity that I had for Halloween except today we were making either puppets or goody bags or just fun bags for stickers or candy and things like that and drawing Basically your fault, Animal theme on it or any kind of animal they wanted to. So that's what the kids did for the next 40 minutes. Then the last 10 minutes were basically spent on cleanup and it to clean up actually, went pretty well. We had enough time for the kids to really finish up their craft activities, be happy with their craft activities and then get out the door after the classroom is clean. By the time the class wrapped up so that part went well and yeah, that's actually a basic recap of today's class.

As the teacher today, I think class went fine. I want to say that because there was actually another teacher with what the kids in the first group today, that was a huge help. So really reinforcing like the classroom rules. Raise your hand when you have a question. So, I noticed it having like, maybe sometimes that the teacher in the classroom, where the pair are something definitely really helps, you know, setting the tone for like Behavior expectations even like keeping the kids focus on, you know, the task at hand or you know, what was on the agenda for today. So that was a big help for me as a teacher. There were no issues today. You know, I had my lesson plan kind of planned out which was the craft activity and that's exactly what we did. I had the materials prepared so I didn't experience any issues as the teacher and you know, of course, if I do, I will definitely share them.

For this class on October, 31st Halloween, I rubbed a little bit early so that I could write the class rules on the board. This included no talking when the teachers talking and when I say grasshopper grasshopper you say grasshopper kids. So I wanted to kind of just start out with some rules. So at first there was a smaller group and the activity that I had planned for today, terms of the agenda was to bake craft bags. So blank bags that I bought out of paper where you Neither decorate and have it. Be your Halloween candy basket for site, or you can turn it upside down into an animal puppet. So, I drew some examples of funny Halloween creatures and scary creatures on the board. I also said that it didn't have to be halloween-related and it could be, you know, any animal that actually exist or as part of their imagination. So fictional or true. So essentially, that was the activity that took up most of the class, the materials that I had brought were multi colored markers. Glitter pens. Or like glitter glue pens. What else? The paper bags? And I forgot the third or the last item. But essentially, I had the craft for the kids today and and the kids made their thing and they took them home and they were happy. So that was the gist of today's class. Unfortunately, the larger group did not come in today because it was Halloween and everybody went home. So the there was early dismissal and that's about it for today.

This was a great group of kids. I started the class out with setting some class rules, and making introductions to the students and introducing myself as a substitute teacher, this was for about 5 minutes, then I opened to, I opened with some openers. So some open-ended questions, like what was the craziest thing you've ever seen or found in nature. You know, maybe I want a family vacation or on a nature, walk with your family and some kids, shared some pretty pretty funny examples that we talked about a little bit. And then I set the expectation that we were going to go on a nature, walk that took up most of the time. So we actually had kind of an open campus walked which the teacher said was. Okay, we walked around the, you know, the school is a class and then later came back to the Garden area which was available to us. That was really helpful and did the remainder of our kind of nature. Search nature walk there in the garden area after that. Oh sorry. The focus of the nature walk was really to pay special attention and close attention to, you know, From smells different textures different you know, plants that look strange and things like that and definitely not to eat anything poisonous. And then also, there's this question of, is this man-made? Did somebody make this, or is this straight from nature? So people are finding beads on the ground and fun little objects like that. So those were those were good conversation starters as well. And then what we did after the nature walk was we shared our findings for 10 minutes. So some people wanted to share in some people did it and we said that that was okay. So if you want To share you could. And if you didn't want to, you didn't have to finally the after sharing findings, we had an activity of sketching. What you found if you wanted to, but we had to improvise a little bit for this class because I wasn't able to bring any writing utensils. But one student had this really great idea that you could actually sketch with pieces of grass and green plants and flowers that we had found would actually ended up working out and people were also making confetti out of flowers, which is a really, really cool Discovery. So So that ended up taking about the rest of the time after the nature walk and the discussion. And then after that, we went on to clean up and dismissal the front office.

This class went well- I met the main afterschool coordinator and we worked together to keep an eye on all the kids, manage disruptive behaviors and provide fun and safe activities for all the kids. We had another helping hand from another volunteer from another organization in the last hour or so, so that was a big help. Overall I had a great time with some wonderful kids and teachers and am very glad I had a chance to help out.

During today's enrichment session at Mission Dolores, I arrived around 2:30. 2:45 p.m. students were in the main room or the auditorium room where they just basically had snacks and we're celebrating someone's birthday and playing games. They did this until about 3:00 3:30 p.m. and we all went outside for some outdoor enrichment activities including like basketball games, Legos puzzle. All's we had a few tables of kids who are also drawing, so that was also a good activity. We did this until about between 4:30 p.m. and 5:00 or sorry, 5:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. when all of the students finally got picked up. So overall it was a good session. There were no major issues, you know, myself and other staff had to reinforce the no running Rule and safety with all the students, but there really weren't any overall issues. Who's the kids were pretty well-behaved. Although very energetic, but overall it was a good session today.