Today's visit,

Today visit is another successful one although most of the students didn't make it. Yesenia and I attended the lunch and after school meeting at Kings Canyon Middle School. We did a lot of activities to break thee ice and for our students to know a little more about each others. We played
the "Name Game" and the "Things in Common". A major event we had was the "Culture Show". What we have the students do is to share something about their culture and where they came from. Yesenia and I thought that this was a good way to promote culture awareness between the
diverse group we have. Culture awareness falls under one of the LACS column. =) Anyways, the two ice breaker we had was for our students to remember each other names and to find things that they each have in common. Another thing we will keep doing is to have a daily "word of the day" for our students. We realized that it will help them learn and increase their knowledge of the different terminologies. But it wasn't just any words, we try to relate it to school, high school, college, and terms that will do them best for present/future references. Our word of the day today was "involvement". It was surprising how many of the students did not know what the word mean. They could think of other words that remind them of it but not necessary the meaning itself. Also, another thing is we are having our students do daily reflections on our meetings. We used the stipend to buy them each a composition notebook and give it to them to keep and reflect. We will collect it every Friday and read what they write in it. Besides that, we are excited for the camp because Yesenia and I are getting very comfortable with our 5 students that are going. I hope everything else is going great for everyone. Thanks Jose and Martina for the code. Yesenia and I will try to incorporate that with our students too. =)