F.E.R.+March+12

1. Checklist -- What specific tasks from the project checklist did you and your buddy begin, work on, or accomplish? What step are you on the checklist? Putting the finishing touches on our outlines and presented them to Miss I. She gave us the 'okay' and we began typing in Story Kit. I'm having the girls map out and completely type out all of our pages before decorating and incorporating voice threads. They are excited to move on to the iPads - the writing was getting a bit much.

2. Summarize your session with your buddy. What went well? What challenges do you encounter? How did you overcome or deal with these challenges? Still working hard. Shamiez is starting to be difficult at times. She isn't putting forth much effort and is doing little things to try and get my attention. She is having a hard time focusing and seems to be losing interest. Caliyah is still doing very well. She has a positive attitude and is doing anything that I ask of her.

3. Reflections - what did you do well today? How were you supportive? What area do you need to improve in for your next session? I tried my hardest to be supportive of Shamiez and keep her interested. She would type out a page with obvious mistakes that she knew were incorrect, and would wait for me to say something before fixing them. Not sure if she is acting out for my attention, being lazy, or a combination of both. It gets a bit frustrating when I have to constantly nag her to stay focused because I don't want to have that be my role throughout this process. I want it to be fun and something different! It's a new way of learning that I think should be a positive, but I feel like the bad guy when I have to constantly tell Shamiez to fix details she knows are wrong. I'm trying really hard to keep my cool and work with her not against her. Caliyah is doing well on her own, I re-read each of her pages and fix little things that need "fluffing", but overall she is doing well.

4. Plans - what are your plans for the sessions this week? How will you prepare? What will you prepare? Next session I am going to try and let Caliyah take the reigns on her project (because I know she will be able to handle it), and focus a majority of my attention on Shamiez in order to get her motivated. Trying to stay positive in order to keep Shamiez interested. We will hopefully accomplish much in Story Kit and move quickly on to decorating and voice threads.