starting work again

this week we started work for the summer. The first todays were not much to talk about they were the normal orientation days where our supervisers just reminded us of all the rules. Wedsday was our the first day we went into our individual groups; we began to work right away. we started with a top activity. we worked on process skils and worked on finding a way to modify activities to make them work with the kids. the next day we reinforced the concept of process skills, did an ice activity, had a group interview with kit, and did an ice activity, and we also journaled. the ice activity was an activity where we got a block of ice and were given several things like a nail, salt, sugar, food coloring, and things of that nature. we then were asked to come up with any questions that we had and write them down. we played with ice and had a lot of fun ( my hands are still red from the food coloring ). we took the all the questions and divided them into to groups investagable and noninvestagable. we did through group discussion. after we sorted them we talked about questions with the word "why" in them. We talked about how many kids would ask these types of questions and that we would have to work with the kids to narrow them down and make them something we could investigate. so to make sure we had the concept down our superviser had each group of two design an activity based on a "why" question that we change and narrowed. overall thursday was a good day. we did a good job but i am sorry to say we had to end the day on a sad note. we found out that our superviser Philix is leaving us to go to school in hawii. now i know that he is doing this to move on with his life but he should know that he always has friends back in st. louis and that he will be greatly missed. i wish him well in medical school and hope he does well.