Dear Followers,
Today was a fun day. This morning was rainy for hours but it was nice. We gathered up for community check-in time and finished off the elementary kids' presentations. After that ended we had two 90 minutes focus times to work on anything. In between the two focus times we had a fifteen minute brain break. We had to have the break inside because it will still raining at the time. I worked on Prezi for our focus times. I got a lot done and learned some cool tricks for it. I also got to find out my teachers for my online courses on flvs.
Today was the first day to bring our own lunch, even though you could easily go to one of the restaurants on your own if you wanted to. We went across the street to a grass field and everybody ate there. After we ate for about 30 minutes we headed to the other grassy field near the beach to play a game of football. It was pretty fun but people started getting tired after about 15 minutes because it was crazy hot outside.
We headed back upstairs to school for music class:) Randy sat everybody down to talk about what was going to go on. He told us about how our school is creating four bands this year. One elementary band, one middle school band, and two high school bands. After we decided the bands, the two high school bands took first music block for an hour and figured out what their band name is going to be, and what songs they wanted to play. It was a lot of fun watching and leaning all these different things.
An hour flew by and it was time to let the elementary and middle school bands to take second block music. I went back to my computer to do project base learning. Im pretty much done with my Prezi so now im writing this blog:) Today was a lot of fun. Im excited for tomorrow because its Friday!
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Day 3, August 26, 2010.
Dear Followers,
This blog is all about my adventures and experiences in OH Institute. I will be blogging everyday about what went on that day. Today, was a pretty good day. We got quite a lot in and I learned a ton. We started out with community check-in. Picking up from yesterday, we shared our mascots that we created with our team's. We had about five teams that presented their creative mascot for the winning spot. After we finished presenting we all voted on one mascot to represent the school. My team, the viper won:)
After we finished our community check-in, we moved on to two 90 minute work times. Within 90 minutes, everybody had a chance to work on whatever they need to. I finished up a few things about Florida standards and moved on to a amazing website called Prezi.com. Prezi is a website that lets you plan out your writing or lets you make a convincing and entertaining presentation. Its a lot of fun too! I played with Prezi for a while, and got the feel for how it works.
Lunch time came around soon enough. Today, we got to have a great lunch at the Cowgirl Kitchen. I got a simple cheese quesadilla and it was very good. These past few days we have been given free lunches at different restaurants and it has been fantastic. After lunch ended, we all headed to the grass field to play a game of kickball. I played for the first time today and actually had a lot of fun. It was very hot outside but that didn't stop anyone. It was a close game and it got pretty competitive.
We headed back to school after the game and cooled off, while we listened to Randy speak about our first music class. I have never played an instrument in my life before, so I was pretty excited for music to start. When Randy finished telling us about the instruments and what we would be doing, we split into two groups and switched from the electric room to the acoustic room. Our first music class was all about just getting a feel for the instruments we were provided. Like I said before, I have never ever played an instrument before but this was a lot of fun! I got to play all these different things that I have never even picked up before. I am defiantly excited for the upcoming music classes:)
When music ended we all went back to our computers and worked for project base time for a while. I went back to prezi and worked on my planning, and discovered a few other cool things. The end of the day came pretty quick. After everyone cleaned up the rooms we all gathered together to watch the elementary kids' first ever presentation. Each elementary student made their own slide show and shared it with us. It was so great to see what all of their presentations were about.
It was a great day at OH and I learned a lot:)
Lunch time came around soon enough. Today, we got to have a great lunch at the Cowgirl Kitchen. I got a simple cheese quesadilla and it was very good. These past few days we have been given free lunches at different restaurants and it has been fantastic. After lunch ended, we all headed to the grass field to play a game of kickball. I played for the first time today and actually had a lot of fun. It was very hot outside but that didn't stop anyone. It was a close game and it got pretty competitive.
We headed back to school after the game and cooled off, while we listened to Randy speak about our first music class. I have never played an instrument in my life before, so I was pretty excited for music to start. When Randy finished telling us about the instruments and what we would be doing, we split into two groups and switched from the electric room to the acoustic room. Our first music class was all about just getting a feel for the instruments we were provided. Like I said before, I have never ever played an instrument before but this was a lot of fun! I got to play all these different things that I have never even picked up before. I am defiantly excited for the upcoming music classes:)
When music ended we all went back to our computers and worked for project base time for a while. I went back to prezi and worked on my planning, and discovered a few other cool things. The end of the day came pretty quick. After everyone cleaned up the rooms we all gathered together to watch the elementary kids' first ever presentation. Each elementary student made their own slide show and shared it with us. It was so great to see what all of their presentations were about.
It was a great day at OH and I learned a lot:)
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