What's On My Plate this Summer

I'll be going into far greater detail in future posts about what I'm doing this summer, but I figured it might be nice to give a sneak peek of what I have going on.

Advanced Conversation Club: Lannea and I are continuing our highly successful Advanced Conversation Club. We've invited a few more students to join us and we're keeping with the format of focusing on life skills. Throughout the school year we discussed problem solving, decision making, and assertive behavior. We're starting summer off with active listening and emotional intelligences. What I really like about this club is that we're discussing valuable and necessary life skills in the context of an English Conversation Club, its a really effective way of skills transfer that is based on the students expressed wants.

Photography Club: I first had this idea a few months ago. This photography club is going to based around the idea of the camera phone, assuming that most kids don't have a digital camera. Each week will have a different topic (color, composition, lighting, etc) and a scavenger hunt. For example, this first week we will discuss color in photos, look at examples of good vs. poor color choices and have a scavenger hunt to find the most perfect examples of different colors. Eventually we'll discuss photo sharing and editing as well.

Softball: After our first game our team wants to get serious about softball (yay). Now we will have practice every Sunday for 3 hours, from 5pm-8pm. This way we can avoid most of the heat.

There will be other camps (in Khachmaz and other regions) and clubs (hopefully more conversation clubs and a computer club) but this is the initial attack.