Date: Friday February 5th 2016
Name of Activity: K2 SketchUp work
Unit: Geometry/shape and space
Learner Profile: Open-Minded
Attitude: Enthusiasm
Yesterday morning, my teacher took my class to the ECC, where there are all the Discovery kids, Pre-K kids and Kindergartners. We were taken to a Kindergarten class with our computers. The class was K2CL. At least I think so. In there, we were partnered up with 1 or 2 kids to work on a house on an application on our computers called SketchUp. In the app we can create 3D objects (such as houses, swimming pools, apartments. The list goes on and on) using simple 2D shapes. Like rectangles, circles, polygons and others. I got partnered up with 2 girls. I think their names were Lucy and Alice. They seemed very shy at first, but then once I started to ask them questions, Lucy started to become more and more excited to find out what her/ their house was going to end up looking like! The Kindergartners drew a "blueprint" of their house designs in their portfolio or something. Then they described what they wanted in the house and I made it on my computer.
How this activity showed being Open-Minded was because we had to respect the kid's ideas and not reject them in any way. Example of rejecting a K2 student's idea: K2 Student: I want to add the bed over there!
You: No. That's a weird idea.
K2 student might feel bad.
You: How about we put it there instead. You may have more space if you put it there.
K2 student: OK!
How this activity shows Enthusiasm was because with the little kids, you had to be very happy and excited with them in order to work with them better. Kindergartners have to know you are excited and appreciate working with them or else they'll think you're not happy with their ideas and you're just mean. I know this because I have a little brother who's in K2. I was very enthusiastic about working with my pair! I think that's why we worked so well together. Besides Alice not talking much but I'll get to that later...
I think what I could do better is (even though I think I did a pretty good job with the kids), Alice didn't talk at all about what she wanted in the house so I think I should've let her a chance to talk if she really wanted to. Actually, she did kind of talk. She whispered some things to Lucy about what she wanted the house to look like, but Lucy told them to me for her. When we meet again, I'm going to let Alice talk a little. But I can understand being shy!
