Youth Exploring Science - Saint Louis Public Schools

Matt and the 4th Grade Adams Crew

Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:54:36 -0700

I owe an apology to Matt, who came in this summer as a new YES teen and rocked the house with his fantastic science and leadership skills. I forgot to give props to him in my last blog...definately an oversight and not purposeful. Once again, I feel so honored to have worked with you guys, even though it was cut short. GREAT WORK! See you this fall!

patience is a virtue? Jazmine Tutwiler

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:06:49 -0700

To me Patience is a virtue. You must have patience in life period, Espeacially when your working with people. People are all different so you have to know how to deal with people with patience. I worked with kids for the summer and i had to have patience, it was a must. With out patience the world would be war every where and there would be no peace.

Patience is a virtue?

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:06:47 -0700

Patience is something that every person sould have. If you have that then you would make it any wear in life. Patience should be used at all times and also if you have patience then it makes people what to be around you and you get along with people more and also you gain more friends.

Patience is a Virtue? ArielStavri

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:55:56 -0700

Patience is something you have to get used to. People arent always patient depending on things around you and your mood. Everyone needs patience sometimes. Teachers have to be really patient to do their job right. It wouldnt not be good if a teacher started yelling at every little thing done wrong, or else the teacher wouldnt do the job right. Patience can be learned over time. Being calm is important, because if youre not calm while waiting for something, then you will anger yourself over nothing. This makes you impatent, and will not help for antyhing but making more anger. Is patience a virtue? I say yes, it is a characteristic trait that people can be good at.

Patience is a Virtue? Travelle

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:55:46 -0700

Everyone are not born with patience you have to develop patience as you go along. You have to have alot of patience to do alot of things like working with little kids. I dont have alot of patience so thats something I need to work on. If you dont have patience you will be fustrated with alot of things you do.

Patience is a virtue?

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:55:04 -0700

To me, patience is very important in life. From teaching little kids, to meeting critical deadlines, it takes a lot of time and effort to accomplish these goals. Without patience, life would be a lot harder because of the way people give up. For example, to get a job, it takes a lot of patience to actually get that job such as going to interviews and etc. But sometimes, patience can be very hard to practice. I found myself getting unpatient with the kids I was teaching, and it was challenging to understand them. But I am a person that is very patient so it doesn't really take that much for me to understand that patience is critical to the way we live. While I believe some people are born with patience, i also believe that some people develop that skill as they grow older and mature. Patience is a great thing to demonstrate and it makes life a lot easier to me.

Summary of the summer

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:30:22 -0700

O my gosh becky the summer was like..... totally fun the kids had a blast!!!!!!!! Well at first when my supervisor said that my group had 5th and 6th graders, I thought we would have a tough group to hang with. But I was wrong.... they were very cooperative and attentative on waht YES had to say. O my gosh Becky I forgot to tell you that I was station at Adams Elementary school. Wow Becky you are really taking me off track!!!! lol Anyways, the kids made numerous project that consisted with the ecosystem and also learned different vocabulary words to help on their MAP test when school starts.

Louisea's Fourth Summer

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:21:56 -0700

This summer at the Science Center has been a new experience in all. The past two summers i have worked with Americorps, and now I'm working with the St.Louis Public schools; which is very different.I was use to teaching everyday with no supervisor in the class room when i was in the americorps group. I got accustom to doing things on my own with my group.In contrast to that in the St.Louis Public Schools group we taught on mondays and thursdays and a supervisor was always present. At first it took sometime to get use to but in the end i really enjoyed being in the SLPS group. It was amazing to discover all the basic facts of science that the children we were teaching didnt know, but we did our best to instill the facts they needed to know . Overall i enjoyed myself and i'm excited about next summer , hopefully i'll be a supervisor.

BuBbLeS

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:10:31 -0700

Hey everyone it's me again and I'm have so much to tell you all! Me and my group at Ames have now finished up our summer with the students. We are now working on a project untill the end of the year involving bubbles. The activity is sooo fun and we've put so many ideas into it to make it more creative. We even made a hypothesis to which soap is to make the biggest bubbles or the long-lasting bubbles..well talk to you later.

The Last Days At Adams

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:08:08 -0700

I enjoyed my summer experience with the forth graders at Adams school. They were a lot of fun.I think they learned alot from the Y.E.S. teens.

My Last Day at Adams

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:56:08 -0700

Today was our last Day. I will miss all my kids a lot. I think we have been throgh lots of learning experience that not only them but me as well will take thru life. I will miss them all. There were hard times and sometimes we might have had mild disagreements or misunderstandings but overall the summer was great at Adams

Today.....

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:20:41 -0700

Today we went over to the main building and saw the Hurricane On The Bayou movie in the OMNIMAX Theater. IT was good . And once we got done with that we got to spend an hour or so in the Science Center. It was fun . Yesterday was our last official day teaching at ames. It was fun though, we went outside with one of the classes and played with bubbles. It was a wind activity and i think they really enjoyed it and we had them do a kind of competition where you see who can blow the biggest bubble and what not. It was a fun last day in my opinion.

summer

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:18:23 -0700

Start: 07/19/2007 - 3:17pm

dis summer was kool for da most part other times it was bad i had fun workin wit the kids but itz ova now so hey

ALL DoNe

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:15:00 -0700

Hey everyone it's me again and me and my group are all done with teaching and now I wonder what we're going to do now! It's been a wonderful summer and we now have 2 weeks left. It went by really fast too. I also look forward to going to the colleges, because I have a lot on my mind to ask so thats all for now!

Last Days of Work

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:14:57 -0700

finally we are approching our last days of work. i swear i couldn't be much happier. im not saying that i daont like this job or anything like tht, it's just that im tierd of working so much. peace out to all the YES teens.