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and we here at the YES program already know how great it is, but it makes us feel all warm and fuzzy when members of the museum education community also recognize the positive contributions our YES teens make to the STL area. Nina Simon, author of The Participatory Museum, recently blogged about her recent experience at the Taylor building and what she learned from the YES teens and our programs. Be sure to check out the picture of our very own Science Afterschool members working with students visiting from IL. They were looking for worms for an exploration activity this past spring. 

leading lesson for the first time was pretty difficult, but i got through it. Over the last two weeks we have done "The touching trail" Were The kids get a book and find different textures, and shade them in their books with a crayon, and "Loosing a sense stations" Were the groups go to different stations and do a project deminstrating wat it would be like to loose a sense like: sight, smell, touch, ect. Teaching little kidsis kind of hectic, but i can deal with it. :-D

I had a great time this summer at the yes teen program..I got to learn more about a lot of interesting things that i did not know...i made alot of friends here.I like all the activies that we did so far.....The activity that i really like is when i did the mirrored alphabets...

this summer has been so much fun! i got to meet so many cute little kids and big kids too, and ive meet and made alot of friends too! and my superviser mr.tim mulhal is really cool too! im gonna be sad when the summer ends but ill try my best to be here for the fall! thats all for now bye-bye!

hey i can't wait until next week, This kids has been a handfull and a challenge but they are very fun to work with. I am learning so much about dealing with younger kids as well as they are learning from us as well. this couple of week's has been fun, and funny.Tim my consoluer was trying to do an activity with us for next week, and he fell.(boy) I tell you that just made day. can't wait to next week .

Okay, so lately we've been playing this fun icebreaker called, "In The River, In The Grass" and it's been really fun. The kids just love playing it and all the YES teens in my group love it too. Besides that we had a awesome day today. The kids were really polite and nice, and they were really into the lessons which is one of the things I liked the most. It really feels good to see a kid having fun especially when its at your expense. ☺

This week was a great week. Our activities for this week were parter drawing, mystery bags, island vacation, loud and soft sound match, mirror alphabet,thamatroeps. The ice breaker was river and the grass and the kids really liked it. I really enjoyed having the kids and i feel that we really did a good job for them 3 days Tim was not here