MAD Update (March 25, 2015)

The last time we helped Mrs. Wilson was two weeks ago. Yesterday, she was sick, so we were unable to help her. Two weeks ago, Victoria and I helped Mrs. Wilson grade papers and input the grades into the gradebook. We entered scores for worksheets, quizzes, reflections, and tests. We had some problem figuring out where to put the extra credit, but we figured it out in the end.

Our group is starting to write reflection papers and prepare the presentation.

MAD Update (March 10, 2015)

Today, for my MAD project, Rachel, Victoria, and I helped Mrs. Wilson to make a pi bulletin board. From now on, every one will help Mrs. Wilson on Tuesday because only one person can make it on Monday. Tiffany was absent, so she couldn't attend. Anyways, we came up with a design to make a tree and have the numbers of pi emerging out of it, spreading across the length of the board. I mainly constructed the tree. Rachel came up with the idea to use pins and string to make the tree. You put pins on the outline of the shape you want, and then you use string to wrap around, over, or under the pins to form a shape. (pictures will be put on soon). I helped to cut out a few cartoons Mrs. Wilson printed out.

As we are nearing the end of our MAD project, it made me think about helping teachers. This MAD project has allowed me to greater understand and appreciate what teachers in ICS do. They put in a lot of effort to help us learn through interesting ways. Mrs. Wilson changes her bulletin board every unit to keep the students interested in math. I really admire that about her. Applying this to my life, I should continue to do the best in whatever task I am given, whether it regard teaching, projects, etc.

Wednesday Tutoring (March 4, 2015)

Today, I helped to tutor a guy in 8th grade. He knows some Cantonese, but has some difficult speaking reading pinyin. First, I helped him with his worksheet. He needed to write down the locations of various rooms. Then, I helped him with his typing. He didn't know the pinyin to some of the words, so I helped him with that. Lastly, he needed to write an essay about his dream school. The worksheet and typing exercise helped him, and he was able to write the essay more independently.

MAD Update (March 4, 2015)

This Tuesday, I helped Mrs. Wilson with two main things - grading papers and making garbage bag costumes for Trash and Fashion.

We graded a class's papers. Some of the questions were difficult to grade, because there were multiple parts to it.

Rachel cut the letters that made the word "trash and fashion" out, and I helped to tape them onto rubbish bags. The students will cut holes into it and wear it.

Helping Mrs. Wilson has allowed me to have a greater appreciation of the teachers in ICS. They work really hard to provide the best learning opportunity for us.