Friday, April 30, 2010
Holy Name Elementary School
Today was not only fun, but a TRIUMPH! today we went to Holy Name Elementary School, and taught a 3rd grade class about the food pyramid, the importance of eating healthy, and played "Food Pyramid Bingo" with them. We had a blast, and we think that they did too...who knew that little kids can bring out the best in people? Well that is our update for today's scheduled activities. Next on the agenda is to collaborate with "Revolution Foods" so that we can give them our curriculum, and help to fund one of their programs that caters to young children. But right at this very second, we are starving, and are on the bus by the ocean street library...let's hope our own school has a tasty and healthy lunch waiting for us!
Until next time,
Healthy School Lunches
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Holy Name Elementary
Sorry we havent blogged in a while, but we have been busy having discussions on race, and working on our lesson on nutrition.
Tomorrow, we are going to be going to Holy Name Elementary School to teach a 3rd grade class about the food pyramid and the importance of eating healthily. We are also going to be playing "nutrition bingo" with them. We are going to say things like "B"..."Chicken" and then ask a question about chicken that the kids would have learned from the lesson. We want to play a game with the kids because we believe that when kids have fun leanring, they pay more attention, and they will want to learn more about the subject they are learning.
I hope you are all having a great day! Wish us LUCK!!
Until the next time,
Healthy School Lunches
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
In class 4/21/10
LW Healthy School Lunches
Monday, April 19, 2010
Class 4/19/10
- Garrick and Tori worked on slides for meat, grains, vegetables, and fruit
- Sarah finished cutting out the 30 bingo cards
- Tianlee got confirmation to present at Holy Name Elementary, and worked on the brochure
- Still looking for an organization, might do something at West Oakland through Mr. Clifford
Team
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Punchlist, Description, and More
So this is our punchlist:
Class | Homework Due for Class | In-Class Work |
1 -3/23/10 | Make contacts, begin research of organizations. | Show our timeline.
Walk through and discussion. |
2 - 3/26/10 | Continue researching organizations, what they do, and what our role would be. | Share organizations and information.
Decide whom we are working with.
Start blog. |
3 - 4/7/10 | Work on blog, research for PowerPoint. | Inner-group reflection. Finalize organization/school. |
4 -4/9/10 | Continue work on blog. | Design PowerPoint and work on blog. |
5 - 4/13/10 | Work on PowerPoint. Blog work. | Whole group meeting.
Work on and improve PowerPoint. Budget planning. |
6 - 4/15/10 | Add punchlist on blog. Individual work on PowerPoint. Blog work. Go to Holy Name Elementary and discuss proposal for presentation. Work on brochure. | Inner-group reflection
and discussion on
work done individually. Combine and finish PowerPoint. Finish brochure. Call/contact Revolution Foods. |
7 - 4/19/10 | Organization work (on/off campus) | Organization work (on/off campus) |
8 - 4/21/10 | Organization work (on/off campus) | Inner-group reflection. Organization work (on/off campus) |
9 - 4/26/10 | Organization work (on/off campus) | Organization work
(on/off campus) |
10 - 4/28/10 | Organization work (on/off campus) | Organization work (on/off campus) |
11 - 4/30/10 | Organization work (on/off campus) | Inner-group reflection. Organization work
(on/off campus) |
12 - 5/4/10 | Individual work on presentation. | Organization work
(on/off campus) |
13 - 5/6/10 | Individual work on presentation. | Work on presentation. |
14 - 5/10/10 | Finish presentation work. | Meet with group to finalize presentation. Run through. |
15 - 5/12/10 | Presentation work if needed. | Presentation |
16 - 5/14/10 | Presentation work if needed. | Presentation |
17 - 5/18/10 | Presentation work if needed. | Presentation |
We've modified and edited it a lot more in accordance with what we've been working on as well as what we want to work on in the future. The "Organization work (on/off campus)" descriptions have mostly been kept in place due to the fact that we are still trying to fit all of these pieces together. Tomorrow we will meet and discuss the work we've completed, how the interview went at Holy Name Elementary, and we will call/contact Revolution Foods. After tomorrow, we hope to have a more definite plan, though we do understand that this will be subject to change. However, we feel that by just putting something down for those days (from April 19th to May 10th) leaves room for actual presentations at schools, organization visits, etc. We also have "Inner-group reflections" appearing multiple times in our punchlist, which consist of checking in with each other regarding work success, how things are doing overall, and sort of "group bonding" as one might call it.
Along with the other self-assessment milestones of success that I think Garrick mentioned on our blog, another that is a little broad is the figuring-out aspect of how we are actually going to wisely use the 1200 dollars. While we are going to present a proposal to Ms. Frank, that whole obstacle of finding a way to use the money is, in my point of view, a goal/milestone that we hope to accomplish. Another is really the whole idea of actually working with kids. This is expressed in the timeline with possibly presenting to schools, however as things are currently variable and indefinite we hope to accomplish this as well. One thing that I had in mind when I was writing my partnership mission statement was the act of actually working with kids, because I had chosen Healthy School Lunches as my focused dilemma based largely off of that. The rest of my group expressed similar views when we first began talking about our dilemma, so I think that working with these kids is definitely a milestone of success.
Thanks,
Tori
Healthy School Lunches
Update!!!!!!!!!
Group Guidlines:
- Everything that my group does is to help better the live's of youth so that they can live healthy and happy lives.
- Stay on task
- Be supportive of other people's ideas
- Bring ideas
Our group works well together because from the very beginning, we have identified what role we are good at in terms of working a group (i.e. the leader, the thinker, the worker, etc.). This has allowed us to assume these respective positions and be efficient while doing work together. One thing that we think we should change is that we should switch up the roles so that one person does not feel as though they are being controlled by one person, or that one person is doing all the work.
Right now, this is what each member of the group is doing:
Tianlee is making a parent pamphlet for kids to bring home to their families.
Sarah is getting the supplies for our game, and is working on her power point.
Garrick is making his power point presentation
Tori is making his part of the power point presentation, and is also thinking of ideas to put into our video
Success for my group at the end of this project would be if we were able to give our lesson plan about the importance of healthy eating to an organization that (at the moment) soley distributes lunches to schools.
We will try to reach this goal by getting an organization to cooperate and want to take on this challenge.
But if we are unable to do that, we will still feel successful if we finish our lesson plan, and make it downloadable on our blog's website for people to use.
Unitl Next Time,
Healthy School Lunches LWHS
Friday, April 9, 2010
Where we are today....
Thursday, April 8, 2010
btw
MESSAGE FROM JAMIE
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