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Lesson Title: Pack Your Backpack for Back to School
Date of Class: 9/14/2017
Day of Class: Thursday
Time of Class: 2pm
MC: Maureen
DJ: Ashlyn
Assistants:
Module: Back to School
How Many Learners: 5
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): good- because maureen is awesome!Self Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) =7
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 6
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 6
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) =6
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) =6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) =7Total Score: 38
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): Our room in this new time is occupied by a story hour right before our class- so since it was about noon and they still hadn’t left the room (the parents like to network after class), one of the library staff told us we could use the smaller conference room. Maureen and I were a bit hesitant to the change at first, but it’s great! Felt like a more intimate space. But, either room works! We talked about how it might be good if class moved to 12:30, or at least we can keep the smaller conference room in mind in the future.
We had two new learners today, and one who had been gone all summer! Glad to see the new time is getting out there. New learners fit well into the class, and quickly warmed up and weren’t too shy. Maureen adjusted well in the alphabet listen and point to accommodate all skill levels. Maureen started with sentence dictations about back to school, then we did a doc search on information about school starting, and then we made a list of things students put in their backpack, and did a round robin of each item after writing it down. Good mix of activities! One highlight for me was explaining the difference between a textbook and a regular book. Great class- lots of learning!!
Lesson Title: Nervous hippos, stoic crocodiles, and matter-of-fact baboons
Date of Class: 8/31/2017
Day of Class: Thursday
Time of Class: 2-3:30pm
MC: Maureen
DJ: Ashlyn
Assistants: Julia, Matthew
Module: Eclipse
How Many Learners: 7
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): Need to print more evaluation sheets!!! All gone :(Self Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 7
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 6
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 6
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 6
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 7Total Score: 38
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): I lied last week when I called my lesson our final time talking about the eclipse, whoops! But Maureen had fun information for folks today. We dictated some sentences today with lots of animal names, and words like “stoic”. Then some round robins with pictures of animals from these sentences. Then we did a seek & find with an interesting article on animals in the eclipse and ended with our favorite scrabble spelling game. Got some good feedback from Matthew at the end of class on how things he’s seen differently at other places during his shadowing, and I think we’re both looking forward to utilizing that info in the following weeks. Class atmosphere was great as usual, even with some new folks in the mix today. Good, solid class!
Lesson Title: How to view the eclipse safely
Date of Class: 8/17/2017
Day of Class: Thursday
Time of Class: 2-3:30pm
MC: Maureen
DJ: Ashlyn
Assistants: Julia
Module: Eclipse
How Many Learners: 7
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): gewdSelf Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) =6
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 7
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 7
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 7
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 6Total Score: 39
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):
We dictated some interesting sentences about viewing safety for the eclipse next week. After three weeks of talking about the eclipse, I think learners were still interested and not bothered! This is in part due to the interesting lessons we’ve delivered, like today’s. Next we did two round robins with “Do you have eclipse sunglasses?” and “Take a pair of eclipse glasses!” because MAUREEN BOUGHT GLASSES FOR EVERYONE! Big cheers to that. Not at lot of people already had them, and I know they’re running low now, so that was fun. We ended with a spelling game with scrabble tiles; after Maureen switched two learners, we felt we had very evenly matched teams and it was an exceptionally good game today. Julia felt more involved after Maureen set her up as a coach/motivator for one team, and I helped the other. Great class full of laughter and teamwork!
Lesson Title: Countdown to the Eclipse
Date of Class: 8/3/2017
Day of Class: Thursday
Time of Class: 2-3:30pm
MC: Maureen
DJ: Ashlyn
Assistants: Julia
Module: Eclipse
How Many Learners: 7
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): gewdSelf Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 6
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 6
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 7
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 7
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 7
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 7Total Score: 40
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): Maureen did a great job thinking creatively with the Eclipse model. We started with some dictated sentences about what an eclipse is, then we did a doc search on a diagram (I think) Maureen made showing what the placements of the moon, earth,and sun during the eclipse. We ended with a fun activity where Maureen drew the eclipse path on a map of the US and learners had to fill in what states it was going through- a fun challenge for learners and instructors. Again, we have a great group going where more advanced learners are happily helping other learners. We ended with a great challenge for Julia (seeing impaired) to figure out a game we can play in class that she can participate in.
Lesson Title: portland’s big interesting trees
Date of Class: 7/20/17
Day of Class: Thursday
Time of Class: 2pm
MC: Maureen
DJ: Ashlyn
Assistants: Julia, Meghan
Module: Local FLora
How Many Learners: 9
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): gewdSelf Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) =7
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) =6
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) =7
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) =7
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) =6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) =6Total Score: 39
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): Getting a big group at this time at rockwood again. Two learners. Room was set up very well to allow learners to work together, and everyone was helping each other! We dictated sentences about trees in portland, and passed around a book with pictures of trees (in portland!) that we dictated. Great class, and super special because Maureen brought banana bread!
Lesson Title: No Powell Butte
Date of Class: 7/13/2017
Day of Class: Thursday
Time of Class: 2-3:30
MC: Patrik
DJ: Ashlyn
Assistants: Julia, Ramin
Module: Local Flora
How Many Learners: 8
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): gewdSelf Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) =1
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 4
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 8
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 9
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 9
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 6Total Score: 37
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific)
Patrik stepped up and led class today when transportation issues made the originally planned field trip unable to happen. This was the largest class we’ve had here at this time in a while, and it was great! We did alphabet listen & point, had folks quickly spell their names and everyone wrote them down, and wrote the title of todays lessons, and then spent the rest of class using a native plant poster to do listen & point. The high energy of the instructors and learners made this unplanned class go very well.Lesson Title: Let’s Go to Olympic National Park
Date of Class: 6/22/2017
Day of Class: Thursday
Time of Class: 2-3:30
MC: Maureen
DJ: Ashlyn
Assistants: Cam
Module: The Great Outdoors
How Many Learners: 5
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): GoodSelf Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 6
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 6
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 7
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 7
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 7Total Score: 39
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): Maureen’s lesson focused on Olympic National Park, which was a cool way to use the Great Outdoors module. We did alphabet listen & point, yell & spell, then dictated sentences about ONP with lots of new words like “monument” “heritage” and “biosphere”. Maureen then showed some photos she had taken at ONP which was a good break after some heavy dictations. Then we did a round robin passing around a map of ONP, dictated another sentence about ONP, and then a seek and find on maps of ONP. We split into two groups for this and learners had fun racing to find the words. Last, we ended with making words we’d been using in the dictations with scrabble tiles, again as a competition between two teams. All the learners seemed highly engaged in the competition, and it was fun!
Lesson Title: Perfect Picnic in a Portland Park
Date of Class: 6/9/2017
Day of Class: Thursday
Time of Class: 2-3:30
MC: Maureen
DJ: Ashlyn
Assistants: Julia
Module: The Great Outdoors
How Many Learners: 4
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): GewdSelf Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 7
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 7
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 7
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 7
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 7
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 7Total Score: 42
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): Small class full of regular learners. We did alphabet listen & point, and then dictated lots of fun sentences about Portland Parks with neat facts. The interesting + relatable nature of the sentences led to lots of side conversations, but everyone participated and it was fun/good English practice in our small, friendly group. Next we did a round robin with “Have you ever been to Forest Park?” and we learned no one had! Then we passed around picnic items, such as a Frisbee and badminton. Then a listen and find on a document of picnic random facts, and ended with a competition between learners to spell previously practiced words with scrabble tiles. Good, connected and engaged class.
Lesson Title: From a Farmer’s Market, fresh produce tastes so good
Date of Class: 5/18/2017
Day of Class: Thursday
Time of Class: 2-3:30
MC: Patricia
DJ: Ashlyn
Assistants: Tan
Module: Farmers markets
How Many Learners:
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): GoodSelf Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 6
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 6
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 6
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 7
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 6Total Score: 37
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): Alphabet listen & Point, Titles of today’s lesson, sentence dictation, read over a sheet describing reasons to go to a farmer’s market, watched a video about farmers markets and learners were told to write down words they hear as the video went, shared, words, did a doc search with Marc’s flyer for Saturday.
Lesson Title: Farmers Markets are Fun Places
Date of Class: May 3, 2017
Day of Class: Thursday
Time of Class: 2-3:30pm
MC: Patricia
DJ: Ashlyn
Assistants: Julia
Module: Farmers Market
How Many Learners: 7
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc):Self Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 7
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 6
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 6
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 7
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 6Total Score: 38
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): We did listen & point, yell & spell, and dictated the title of today’s lesson. Then we looked at a print out of Portland’s webpage describing where farmer’s markets are, and did listen & point with it. Patricia asked if anyone didn’t know what a word meant and we got to explain what sustainability meant. We did dictated sentences describing what some symbols under the word “amenities” (which we also had to define) meant on a Lent’s International Farmer’s Market flyer (a music sign, image of two people, and a dog on a leash). We ended with a word search and listen & point of the Plant word cloud.
Lesson Title: Plant Vegetables Together to Prevent Destructive Garden Insects
Date of Class: 4/20/2017
Day of Class: Thursday
Time of Class: 2-3:30pm
MC: Patricia
DJ: Ashlyn
Assistants:
Module: Gardening
How Many Learners: 12
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): Need more printed out loyalty card sheets- no more left :(Self Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 7
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 6
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 6
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 6
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 7Total Score: 38
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): Started with alphabet listen & point, names, and then the lesson title. We practiced garden words with the word cloud, and then did a listen & point with a companion planting guide. Learners chose their favorite plant from the guide, and then filled in a worksheet with more about that plant- including the colors of all the plants. Learners then shared with the class what they chose. Ended with me inviting people, again, to Earth Day on Saturday! Had one new learner in class who quickly fit in with the group.
Lesson Title: Arbor Day Comes But Once a Year
Date of Class: 4/19/2017
Day of Class: Wednesday
Time of Class: 6-7:30
MC: Marc
DJ: Ashlyn
Assistants: Daniel
Module: Housing
How Many Learners: 13
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): GoodSelf Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) =6
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 6
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 6
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 6
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 6Total Score: 36
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): I filled in as DJ for Marc. We did Alphabet Listen & Point, names, and then dictated sentences about Arbor Day. We did “This is a..” for a postcard and poster. Marc made a cool diagram fill-in with the image from the Arbor Day poster and learners filled in words for what things were in the poster. Then we did listen & point with words and images in the poster. Ended with me inviting learners again to Earth Day at Nadaka on Saturday. In reflection, we discussed how to help a lower-level learner in the class. For example- we noticed a lag during one of the dictations, but Marc created a word trace for that learner for the next sentence dictation and the learner seemed to like that. Great class with lots of energy!
Lesson Title: Practice Evaluation Survey for a Neighborhood Community Garden
Date of Class: 4/6/17
Day of Class: Thursday
Time of Class: 2-3:30
MC: Patricia
DJ: Ashlyn
Assistants: none
Module: Gardening
How Many Learners: 11
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): GoodSelf Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 8
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 6
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 6
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 5
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 6Total Score: 37
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): Patricia started with the alphabet and incorporated some different letters than what is normally used. She made a survey similar to the one the library wanted us to do so learners could practice doing a survey before the real one. Skill levels were high and low around the room, but learners were helping each other very well. When we got to the Library survey, some learners had already done it. They helped other learners, and we also gave out extra worksheets for those learners to do instead. Lots of helping and working together today (…yesterday)- a friendly class!
Lesson Title: Fun Facts and Stories About Birds
Date of Class: 3/23/2017
Day of Class: Thursday
Time of Class: 2-3:30pm
MC: Patricia
DJ: Ashlyn
Assistants:
Module: Birds on the Wing
How Many Learners: 8
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): sa’ll goodSelf Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 7
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 4
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 5
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 6
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 6
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 7Total Score: 35
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific):
We had a lot of new learners in this class! 5 or the 8 were learners new to Patricia and I, and 3 of them were completely new. We started with alphabet listen and point, yell and spell, title of today’s lesson, and then dictated some sentences with bird facts. After the fact, Patricia passed around a picture of what we talked about in the sentence. Class ended with reading some Aesop fables about birds. This was fun. We read it all together first, slowly, then Patricia invited learners to individually read it outloud for the class. Lots of outgoing learners were excited to do this. It was an engaged class with lots of working together among learners.
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Lesson Title: Stinky Gingko
Date of Class: 2/16/2017
Day of Class: Thursday
Time of Class: 2-3:30pm
MC: Colleen- Dress Rehearsal
DJ: Ashlyn
Assistants: Malee, Julia
Module: Tree Hugger
How Many Learners: 10
Materials Status (loyalty cards, alphabet sheets, etc): All good! Made more copies of the attendance tracker sheetSelf Evaluation
Preparation: Forgot to Show Up (1) vs. Every Hair In Place (10) = 6
Technique: Completely Incompetent (1) vs. Flawless Delivery (10) = 5
Engagement: Snoring Loudly (1) vs. Absolutely Riveted (10) = 7
Connection: Open Hostility (1) vs. Kumbayah (10) = 7
Poise: Charlie Brown (1) vs. Prince (10) = 5
Reflection: “It was ok.” (1) vs. Life-changing Epiphany (10) = 7Total Score: 37
What happened (as short or as long as you like, but be specific): This was Colleen’s dress rehearsal! We talked about Gingko trees and she was very well prepared, and even brought in some stinky gingko berries to pass around. Class was very engaged, with lots of learners helping each other.