Learning Places

Say hello to the three newest members of our building: Brandon, Lance, and Cindy! What? You say you've already met them? Let us take a look...

Meet Brandon...

Our new Chameleon guest. He enjoys climbing around his cage, eating wax worms, and licking water droplets off the plants leaves in his tank.

Meet Lance...

 

Our Albino Corn Snake. He enjoys climbing (our arboreal friend!) as well as coiling up in his tank. He likes to eat small mice and be undisturbed while he is eating. Yum yum yummy!

Meet Cindy...

 

Our special Box Turtle. Originally thought a female, Cindy decided to mount everything in sight once reaching puberty, so now we think she is a he...not quite sure. Cindy is a rescue from owners who thought keeping a turtle in a dark concrete basement would be fine, leading to her distinctive gait due to her crooked legs and underdeveloped shell because of lack of sunlight. She is full of energy and spunk!

Saturday March 2, 2009 was the last learning lab of the spring semester. It was also the FINAL Saturday lab for seniors period. We worked very hard to get this far and I feel that it has paid off big time. It has been a great experience for me and I am sure it has been for others also. I have matured as a person due to the program and have learned many things because of it. SCANS has been a major factor in these new things that I've learned. At first I thought it wasn't that important and not very useful, but now I can see the benefits behind it. The skills learned while being taught SCANS has helped me make most of my decisions. Following these skills also helped me advance in the program and caused my role to increase. Now I am looking forward to the summer and using these same skills.

    Last week at work we had the privilege of having guest speakers come in and talk to us. The guest speakers were form the Navy!  They Navy officers talked to all of us about the navy and what they do there. They explained how they rank the officers, what jobs they have done, and options for college while your training to be in the navy. I had a lot of fun and learned a lot of information about the navy that I did not know about.  The navy officers were very nice and they were willing to answer any questions that we had.

     After we were done talking to the people from the navy we separated into our groups and began to work on our learning places projects. Krystal and I are almost finished with ours. We're at Girls Inc. and we're working on colors and angles.  We made a big angle clock and we made activities for them to work on mixing color. All we have to do is finish up on our secondary colors. I hope they enjoy our learning place!

 

Today during lab I had the "privlege" to work by myself on our project. Neither of my partners showed up so I had to bring my A+ game today. I worked very hard and got alot done, granted that i was alone. I stayed focused throughout the entire day despite all of the distractions like THE HEAT!!! I plan to keep up the good work through the rest of my days here in the program.

While working Tim gave me a "TO DO LIST" of things I needed to get accomplished. Of the ten things written on the list I completed three of them, which may not seem like alot but they werent easy. I had to clean up the containers, that will house our reptiles, with mulch and afterwards fill them with mulch. Then water the plants inside of one of the cages. After all of that was completed the worse part came..... CLEANING UP!!! It was already hot so that just added to the torture. I also plan to come in during the week to finish up my list.

Today during lab we did SCANS and College Prep as usual. During SCANS we talked about our personal enrichment hours and why we need them. We also came up with ideas as a group on different things we could do to get more excitement while getting our personal enrichment hours. While in College Prep we played Jeopardy. The different topics were things such as: Preparing for college, Applying to college, ACT, Financial aid, and different worksheets used to get ready for college.

When we broke up into our components, we continued our discussion about enrichment hours. We were told about the different things that were coming up. Then we broke up into our smaller groups that we chose to work in during the spring and maybe into the summer. I chose to be in the reptile group and today we researched general and care information about the reptiles we will be getting. The three animals we will get are a Chameleon, a Box Turtle, and an Albino Rat Snake. I look forward to working with these animals and I enjoy working in my group.

Hi I'm Ivi. I've been in YES for almost a year now. I had some good times and not so good times but i'm still looking toward the future.