Yeah, I took the class was overall pretty good. They were the younger group of kids. They seem to enjoy it. There seemed to be like a little bit of, like, a language barrier, which I wasn't aware of. Is that one of the instructions I had to give? There had to be, like a translation. So yeah. It would have been nice to have a little bit of a heads up. That, that was a thing. But thankfully activity was simple enough and they seem to be able to get it done. So yeah. But they overall enjoy the activity or able to complete it so I was happy about that right now. I'm hopefully everything is going to go okay for this next class is it does look like there might be a thunderstorm, they do have me outside so hopefully everything will go. Okay with that.

Yeah, I felt pretty reasonably prepared for today's class. I was just a little frustrated with the time because I didn't. Yeah, I was just a little unclear. What time was supposed to show up to the school? Today, I had all my materials in my car already but yeah in order to I got a text message reminder for the class at the same school at two but not for the one. Right before it. And then I had, when I asked when I had a meeting last Friday, believe, it was, yeah, I wasn't quite sure if that was booked or not. So, but the class went, well, the kids had a lot of fun. So yes, that's all that really matters. But yeah, just frustrated with the time miscommunication there.

Yeah, I'm just kind of more bouncing off what I said. Last point just kind of feeling unprepared and then I was embarrassed. Yeah. And then The thankfully, the school is very sweet and understanding, they're really, really nice cool. But yeah, I just felt embarrassed as a teacher but I will be back up here tomorrow and I'll have fresh start, you know, start over again. Yeah. But there's a lot of miscommunication for today. I. Yeah. But tomorrow will be much better, the students were great. So, once again, it was Nothing they did. The staff was very understanding. They help me pass out. Ingredients area was great to teach him. Yeah.

Yeah, today's class was a little chaotic when I was on my teacher, like planning call yesterday. I was informed that there would be five students per class. Instead there's like, you know, 16 kids per class. So I was really caught off guard. I didn't know. Yeah, I was really kind of like flustered because I knew I was teaching. King. But a kind of made my lesson plan a whole lot different because originally I made pasta, skewers with the kids today, but instead of being able to like have them cut up the ingredients, I use me and the other the teachers and staff that worked at the school we cut off the ingredients, they would stretch farther and they either were kind enough to order more ingredients, but I was extremely embarrassed. My first time teaching at the school and I was unprepared because I didn't know how many students was going to be in here. Yeah. But, you know, other than that, the kids were great and I yeah, I was just really unprepared, like felt unprepared with my materials, because I have more materials at home. But since I have another commitment after this, I didn't bring all them with me so they wouldn't spoil. So yeah, just a huge misunderstanding. Miscommunication with the amount of students that I would have in this class or classes. Thank you.

Today, I think class went pretty good overall. Again the kids were little and see but I think that's just because the end of the day and they're ready to go home which is understandable I did have to get a little Stern at one point because two boys in the group in particular. Again me a little push back, kind of just giving a little like snarky comments and not wanting to listen but I was quickly able to kind of deescalate That. So, I'm glad that was able to be resolved, but yeah, that was. That was pretty much, it felt prepared. My wife, I was acting a little iffy but it was okay. We, I figured it out. We had fun.

Today in class we simulated an oil spill. And we learned about oil spills and the impacts on the environment. We learned about the oil spill that happened in the Gulf of Mexico. So I showed them a few videos and how that impacted the environment and how devastating that was. And as for experiment I had some water and just a little bit of vegetable oil from the kitchen, I had them. Attempt to try and clean that up and to help them understand how expensive and time-consuming it is to clean up oil spills. And you'll never never, truly will get all the oil out of the water. So that's what we did in class today. Just to kind of help them understand that concept more

Today's class went pretty good. I accidentally. There's like multiple schools called Platte River. Whichever the school was called. So I went to the wrong School. Thankfully, I was early, so I arriving to the wrong school. It was just 10 minutes down the road. So the school? Because I went inside to the wrong school, they provide me the address to the right school. So that was the most hiccup I experienced today. Basketball. When really goes the kids, the staff was very friendly and helpful and direct me where to go because I wasn't familiar with this school. I'm not sure if I would go here again because it was quite a long drive for me. It was like, 55 minutes going and then like an hour plus was traffic. So I don't think I would do this again. And also just, I was able to get out of school early today, but I don't think I would do this. This again in the future but it was a nice experience nonetheless.

We played various games such as around the world basketball freeze tag and knockout.

Today we did basketball manias. I'd like to call it. We just play the three mini-games basketball-related many games. So we did basketball, freeze, tag, knock out and around the world basketball freeze tag have the students dribble the ball around the basketball court, while keep to continue, dribbling their own ball. And there is Is a taggers and they have to dribble their own basketball. And taggers essentially had to knock the ball out of the other players hands, without fumbling their ball, then around the world was a game where I set up some cones, have the students shoot from each cone. So they made the first shot, they got your moves to the next cone and so on and so forth. But if they It's, they went to the back of the line, and then another student would shoot and then knock out as a classic basketball game, where students, you know, challenge each other to try to make as many shots as they can and in a row without a knockout, the other opponents basketball. So I'll just good skills to help the students. Continue their basketball.

Yeah. Yesterday's class could have gone a little bit better. The students since they were getting frustrated with the origami project they started getting really like antsy and pressure. And then one a pretty big space here at this school, like we're in the cafeteria but it's only us and they're so at some point some of the kids got up and started doing like, cartwheels and backflips. Wish I was exaggerating, but no, which I could understand to a degree because it's hard for kids of this age group to kind of sit still, especially something proves to be a little bit more challenging there. They seem to kind of want to give up. I tried to give them a couple stretch breaks in between while we were folding the origami. But yeah, it wasn't our best class that I've had with them but partially because the project I will not partially lat Largely because the project was very frustrating for them. And I don't want this to be a frustrating experience for them. So next time I'll pick something that's not that's still fun but it won't be as exhausting for them.

Today in the class, we were not today yesterday since I'm turning this inlay. But we've did origami where at least attempted to for Earth Day. So I showed the kids a video since Earth days on the 22nd and we just kind of focused on How what it is and the history of it and how it started. And instead of planting trees, since we don't have the space or materials for that, I just decided to have the kids use recycled paper that I had. So from Wrapping paper, I guess that you get at the grocery store, you buy fragile items. I have them use that. Since is the right weight for origami, we attempted to fold origami trees. I say attempted because it was quite more much more difficult than I expected, but hopefully the kids had fun. Some of them seemed a little frustrated, but so next time, if I choose to do an origami project again, with kids, I'll make sure It's a very simplistic way.

Really good, students were ready to learn and eager to improve. They really look forward to cooking class every week! Staff was really friendly as well.

Today we made avacado-chocolate pudding. The ingredients were 1 Avacado, 1 Banana, Honey Vanilla Yogurt, melted chocolate, and sprinkles. The students improved on their fine motor skills by mashing and mixing everything together and learning how ingredients come together to make something new and how just because something is healthy doesn’t mean it isn’t yummy!

Really good! The kids were organized and ready to learn and the teaching facility was really nice and clean.

Today we built a water filtration device with a plastic water bottle, coffee filters, and rocks. The water was contaminated with dirt , leaves, and seeds and the students and I built a device to illustrate how hard it is to keep water clean once contaminated. The key takeaways was to conserve water and keep it unpolluted otherwise it can contaminate other freshwater sources. We also watched a few YouTube videos on my laptop to illustrate how the water cycle works