A lot of my students were really terrible today. : ( During one of my tutoring sessions, after having students lie to my face, steal my teachers' book, hide their shoes, and then run around the school and hide, I had to have to Principal speak to my class and take away their field trip this is coming up in two days. And all of this was from what is usually my best group, so you can imagine how much worse the other groups were. What a day.
-Aly
DUG: 78
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
1,422.75 Hrs.
Today was another great day!
This morning, instead of going in to R. R. Moton, I met Lee, Dan, and Saif at the office so we could travel to Commissioner Bruno's office. We had a round table with him all about City Year and the work we do, and it was actually pretty cool. It's been very frustrating to me that I've never been invited to do a roundtable before (especially since some people have done, like, thirty), and I'm not really sure I was their first pick for the roundtable today, but it was still fun to be there.
At school, fifth grade interventions were cancelled because of a field trip, so I didn't really have to do much work until J.A. After school, we ran a Sarfish Corps lesson, and the kids enjoyed so much that I didn't have to work so hard at getting them organized and behaving well.
So, yep, today was pretty great.
-Aly
DUG: 79
This morning, instead of going in to R. R. Moton, I met Lee, Dan, and Saif at the office so we could travel to Commissioner Bruno's office. We had a round table with him all about City Year and the work we do, and it was actually pretty cool. It's been very frustrating to me that I've never been invited to do a roundtable before (especially since some people have done, like, thirty), and I'm not really sure I was their first pick for the roundtable today, but it was still fun to be there.
At school, fifth grade interventions were cancelled because of a field trip, so I didn't really have to do much work until J.A. After school, we ran a Sarfish Corps lesson, and the kids enjoyed so much that I didn't have to work so hard at getting them organized and behaving well.
So, yep, today was pretty great.
-Aly
DUG: 79
Sunday, March 29, 2009
DUG: 80
I accidentally slept in today, and didn't make it to Bible study or church. I suppose I needed the sleep, though.
This afternoon, Beth and I went to the mall. It felt good to get out of the apartment for something other for work, which is something I haven't been able to do in a long time.
I am not ready for work again tomorrow. : (
-Aly
This afternoon, Beth and I went to the mall. It felt good to get out of the apartment for something other for work, which is something I haven't been able to do in a long time.
I am not ready for work again tomorrow. : (
-Aly
Saturday, March 28, 2009
1,413.75 Hrs.
Today was a Young Heroes Saturday, and the topic of the day was "The Roots of Poverty". We took a bus down south to Camillus House, which is an organization that provides low-cost housing for people who are in the "transitional phase" - they have an income, but are not yet up on their own feet. For the service portion of the day, we cleaned up the grounds of the complex a little bit, including picking up a lot of trash.
After the students left, all of the Team Leaders went over to Liana's house for a Team Leader Appreciation Dinner. It was really fun to relax, eat good food, and hang out with the people that I work with every Saturday. I didn't stay very late, though, because today really wore me out and I was feeling totally exhausted by the time the students left.
-Aly
DUG: 81
After the students left, all of the Team Leaders went over to Liana's house for a Team Leader Appreciation Dinner. It was really fun to relax, eat good food, and hang out with the people that I work with every Saturday. I didn't stay very late, though, because today really wore me out and I was feeling totally exhausted by the time the students left.
-Aly
DUG: 81
Friday, March 27, 2009
1,404 Hrs.
Today was in interesting day.
The day started out with a Unity Rally at 8:15, just like every other Friday. After the Unity Rally, though, the corps members split into groups. A few weeks ago, we were each given a survey about what interests us, so today we were put into groups pertaining to what we are interested in. My group got to visit the state attorney's office, which was really cool for me because that is what I am interested in doing for a career. Since Friday's are apparently pretty slow days in court, most of what we got to do was talk to a bunch of judges and lawyers and sit in on a little bit of a traffic court session. We did, however, get the chance to sit in on about thirty minutes of a felony trial, which was cool. This morning was very informative and fascinating for me, since it gave me the chance to see what goes on in a typical day in the life of a state attorney. Things were a lot different than I had expected them to be, but still very interesting.
For the afternoon, we had to go back to the office and complete some computer proficiency training, which is one of our graduation requirements. This meant that we had to send an e-mail and replicate an excel spreadsheet.
-Aly
DUG: 82
The day started out with a Unity Rally at 8:15, just like every other Friday. After the Unity Rally, though, the corps members split into groups. A few weeks ago, we were each given a survey about what interests us, so today we were put into groups pertaining to what we are interested in. My group got to visit the state attorney's office, which was really cool for me because that is what I am interested in doing for a career. Since Friday's are apparently pretty slow days in court, most of what we got to do was talk to a bunch of judges and lawyers and sit in on a little bit of a traffic court session. We did, however, get the chance to sit in on about thirty minutes of a felony trial, which was cool. This morning was very informative and fascinating for me, since it gave me the chance to see what goes on in a typical day in the life of a state attorney. Things were a lot different than I had expected them to be, but still very interesting.
For the afternoon, we had to go back to the office and complete some computer proficiency training, which is one of our graduation requirements. This meant that we had to send an e-mail and replicate an excel spreadsheet.
-Aly
DUG: 82
Thursday, March 26, 2009
1,395 Hrs.
Today was, thankfully, a pretty uneventful day.
My fourth graders were wonderful once again, probably because rewarded them with candy for their behavior yesterday. The seven of us went through an entire party-sized bag of skittles in only thirty minutes! Now that I think about it, though, I kind of feel bad about the sugar rush and than sudden drop those kids probably put their poor teacher through.
-Aly
DUG: 83
My fourth graders were wonderful once again, probably because rewarded them with candy for their behavior yesterday. The seven of us went through an entire party-sized bag of skittles in only thirty minutes! Now that I think about it, though, I kind of feel bad about the sugar rush and than sudden drop those kids probably put their poor teacher through.
-Aly
DUG: 83
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
1,386 Hrs.
Today was such a great day with City Year!
The day today was fairly short and easy, since the team left R. R. Moton at noon to drive up north to visit the offices of Comcast, which is the sponsor for our team. The people who we met at Comcast were extremely warm, welcoming, and supportive of City Year, and it felt good to know that we have such people behind us and the work we do. We had a round-table discussion with two representatives from the company, which gave us some time to introduce ourselves to them and for them to ask us some questions about the work we do at Moton. Not every school-based team gets their own individual sponsor, so we are especially lucky to be paired with a sponsor that has supported City Year so strongly and for so many years.
At the school today, my fourth grade intervention group was so awesome that I was almost in tears! They are usually my best group, but I wasn't expecting much today since they were so terrible yesterday. They, however, were early, attentive, respectful, quiet, and interested in the lesson, and it totally blew me away when they acknowledged how much better the session is if I don't have to yell at them. Afterwards, on the way to lunch, they even walked in a quiet line to the lunchroom instead of running down the halls screaming. I don't know what happened to them today, but I would give ANYTHING to see that behavior again.
-Aly
DUG: 84
The day today was fairly short and easy, since the team left R. R. Moton at noon to drive up north to visit the offices of Comcast, which is the sponsor for our team. The people who we met at Comcast were extremely warm, welcoming, and supportive of City Year, and it felt good to know that we have such people behind us and the work we do. We had a round-table discussion with two representatives from the company, which gave us some time to introduce ourselves to them and for them to ask us some questions about the work we do at Moton. Not every school-based team gets their own individual sponsor, so we are especially lucky to be paired with a sponsor that has supported City Year so strongly and for so many years.
At the school today, my fourth grade intervention group was so awesome that I was almost in tears! They are usually my best group, but I wasn't expecting much today since they were so terrible yesterday. They, however, were early, attentive, respectful, quiet, and interested in the lesson, and it totally blew me away when they acknowledged how much better the session is if I don't have to yell at them. Afterwards, on the way to lunch, they even walked in a quiet line to the lunchroom instead of running down the halls screaming. I don't know what happened to them today, but I would give ANYTHING to see that behavior again.
-Aly
DUG: 84
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