Week One!

Wow! What a week! I had a lot of fun during my first week as a seminar instructor. It seemed long, but an entire week on a blitz schedule always seems long. We started on Monday by talking about what seminar is and what they would like it to be. I went over schedules and a ton of forms.

Tuesday, we used sticky notes again this time we talked about each class. It worked out well and gave us time to talk about things we're looking forward to and the things that are making us anxious. The graduation project came up a lot, as did college biology. It was good to be able to have a candid conversation about some of these things.

Wednesday, we picked up college text books and tried to pay college fees. The vast majority of the juniors got both things taken care of, which was good. There are still a few who need to go and pay their $7 fee. Of course it was raining on Wednesday, which meant I got wet all day, but at least it wasn't 90 plus degrees!

Thursday, Mrs. Flowers our college liaison came in to help everyone with their student e-mail, blackboard, and webAdvisor. She helped make sure everyone could access their accounts and went over some of the features of each. I had everyone set up their accounts on or social network, http://cechsyear3.ning.com. It's a closed network just for us! I've been very pleased and excited about all the activity so far.

FRIDAY! was so much fun (sorry Brooke). We loaded buses and headed to the Granite Rec for team building, swim tests, and free play. You can see the videos to check out all the action!

We started with The Great Riddle Race! We split the students into teams of 7 and they had to run across the field to hear a riddle. then they ran back to their team to work out the riddle. They could earn clues by doing silly things. Again, check out the videos! Several student ran themselves ragged and a couple even got sick from the heat.

We moved from the heat to the pool. We got a large percentage of students swim certified, so that was good. Mrs. Grogan and myself also so offed some mad skills (not really) on the diving board.

After our time in the pool was over, we had lunch and then hung out and played. There was a football game going on, sword fighting, lounging, and scooter riding. it was a great day!

I'm looking forward to another AWESOME week!!!