Our Last Week!

Final week(week 10)

For our final week, our group has just been working on getting  our TED talk put together. We have almost completed our outline and we are finishing up our presentation on google slides. 

Due to this busy exam week, we have not been able to work out times to meet with our students. Though, we have been helping out with our siblings at our own homes with their work. 

Overall, our project did alright. We didn’t meet with as many students as we’d originally planned because we didn’t have many students sign up. The ones we did meet with enjoyed our help. We didn’t perform any surveys. Instead, we talked to them about their experience with us in person. They appreciated our help and understood that this idea was also new to us so we were learning how to improve. 

We hope to be able to help students in the future!

Week 9

This week we helped one grade 8 student study for an upcoming social studies exam. The exam is on June the 18th. We worked on definitions and basic facts. This social studies unit covers the main ancient groups in history including the Egyptians, Romans, Greeks, and the Chinese Dynasties. We also covered the time of the Homo Sapiens, Homo, Erectus, and the Homo Habilis. We looked over the tests and projects from those units and made corrections to some of the answers she got wrong. We also talked about organizing her time during these busy weeks leading up to exams, since she was worried about completeing all her project and finding time to study. We taught her to set time aside each night for studying so that the work won’t pile up and cause her to be stressed.
This mentoring session was very successful and we could tell she benefited from this time because she left less stressed and more positive.

Week 8

This week has been another quiet week. We haven’t had anyone contact us for help. We have asked a few students if they need extra help studying, but they are not very busy at the moment. We have spoke to one young girl who says that she has lots of projects and exams coming up, so we expect that our students will need more help in the month of June.
Here is the exam schedule for the month of June.