10/19/09

Again, sorry about the late post. Yesterday was a whole lot more successful than some of the previous days. There were a few issues. I had an incident where one of the girls did not want to listen to me. We were serving popcorn for a snack, but she did not want any and that is all we had. She decided she was going to try and eat a napkin instead. I told her not to, but she decided not to listen and got sat down. I also had to sit two of the boys down later in the day at the same time for pushing each other. They got into an argument which led to the pushing. After having them sit down, I told them that fighting does not solve any problems and they need to come to me or another staff member if they get into a disagreement and we will settle it.

Earlier I did a science experiment with them like I was talking about in my previous posts. I chose to do the one with the blow dryer and the ping pong balls. You have to turn the blow dryer all the way up on high, hold the end where the air comes out straight up, hold it level, and place the ping pong ball above it and let it go. Gravity and air pressure work together to keep the ball floating in the air. I tried to make this a Power Hour thing, but it did not exactly work out the way I had hoped. I will try to make it to where Power Hour is done right after all the other programs. I thought I would do a science experiment with them for the first half hour and the rest of the stuff for the remaining amount of time.