Classroom Presentations

Wow… what a week. It was the first week we started to go into schools to give classroom presentations for the mini-grant program we run for grades 3-8. Basically, it was a run-through of different presentations by Lorena, our boss so that we Americorps can see how they go and get ready to present on our own. And boy was it interesting…in a lot of ways.

I’m kinda braindead right now, fighting a cold, hoping that I’m not gonna come down with Strep like Matt did after coming home from Thanksgiving. My head hurts, I’ve been PMSing and after a great long weekend in Corvalis, a whole 5-day week of work seems like a lifetime. Overall, was kinda frustrated cause we never got pre-briefed on the presentation details, like how long, start and end time, etc. It was just embarrassing to go into the classroom with Matt and I and be asked how long and what time we had until and have no idea. Otherwise, that one went relatively well. The presentation was on waste free holidays and we talked for a little bit about the three R’s (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle) and how that could be utilized over the holiday season before we split the kids into 3 groups to rotate through 3 activities; making gift coupons, decorating newspaper to use as wrapping paper, and using recycled paper to make snowmen. One girls almost started crying cause she ran out of time and didn’t have time to finish her snowman! And one thing is for sure, kids are CRAZY with glitter! Yikes, learned that lesson the hard way…☺