Two activities were met with a great deal of enthusiasm, in the first one working in small groups, students had to build the highest tower they could with only non-verbal communication and they had to take turns putting the cards on the towers. The towers measured in at 53 and 48 inches by the time they were done the other 2 groups learned the agony of repeated defeat but they kept on trying. There was also a small dispute over the 53 inch tower group and their ability to adhere to the non-verbal communication rule.In the other activity students needed to role play 3 different scenarios and then explain how the scenario needed to be altered to become good communication or, in some cases, explain how their good communication took the place of a bad scenario.
Home and Careers has been working on babysitting skills and responsibilities. Today we are all going to crawl on the floor to get a child's perspective of how a home needs be baby proofed. It should be a great deal of fun and a terrific learning experience if they wear pants or shorts like I asked them too.This coming week they will be writing up a babysitting booklet with emergency procedures, responsibilities, guidelines, and activities for young children. Then we will be making sock or glove puppets and creating stories to go with them.
Textiles 1 in the H.S. has been exploring the differences between fashion styles, trends and fads. Next week we will be learning to use the machines and I hope to have every ones project order and check in so that I can order the projects the first week of October.
