10/26/09

Yesterday seemed to go really well. The kids are on Fall break this week so when I arrived, they were already there and playing around. My supervisor had taken the teenagers on a trip to the Louisville Science Center so I was in charge of running the ping pong tournament for the olympics. I had no problem whatsoever with doing that. I did have issues with the kids when one of the other staff members was trying to make them go up to art. Some of them thought it would be fun to try and play hide and go seek on us. After rounding them up I told them that if the misbehaving continues and they could not show us any respect, I would contact my supervisor and let him deal with them. For those who had permission to walk, I threatened to send them home.

I was able to do another science experiment with the kids. For those who wanted to play the Gamecube, I told them if they participated in the experiment and answered the questions correctly, they would have first dibs on it. I thought that rewarding them with that might be a good way to get them to participate in an educational activity. For the rest of the time I was either hanging out with the kids and playing games with them or doing paperwork for my supervisor. I had to figure out the hourly attendance for each day of this month. It got old really quick. Basically, I had to figure out who was there on what day and during which hours of our daily operation.

Here is the link to the science experiment that we did:

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/experiments/staticelectricity.html