April 24, 2011 (community)

Time spent: 2.5 hours
Total hours spent: 10 hrs
Actions I performed:
Today, I performed and taught more songs that I learned with my mentor. The songs I taught today were ...

The B-I-B-L-E
Oh! The B-I-B-L-E,
Yes that's the book for me.
I stand alone on the word of God,
the B-I-B-L-E!

Jesus loves the little children**
Jesus loves the little children
All the children of the world; Red and yellow, black and white,
They are precious in his sight; Jesus loves the little children of the world.

How am I doing?:
I'm content with teaching the class I'm teaching now because like I said last week, the kids understand me when I am speaking to them and they sing along with me which makes it more fun and less awkward especially if its just me alone in front of everyone.

April 19, 2011

Time spent: 2 hours
Total time: 22hours
Actions I performed: Today was presentations day in the class so we went over their group projects on their biographies of their famous or popular person. Since today was going to be one of my last times there doing my mentoring, at munch we went over the songs that I learned from a while back since I haven't been keeping up with my community service hours.
Next Actions: Next time If i do come back, It's going to be because of my senior project presentations because I was thinking of doing total communication for the introduction of my presentation.
How am I doing: Overall, I felt like I learned a lot from Mr. Oshita's class. I felt like the way he taught helped me learn quick and I'm pretty satisfied with how well I did and how he involved me in his class and I grew more comfortable with my environment. I'm glad I chose ASL as my senior project because I feel like it's something I can later learn more about.

April 18, 2011

Time spent: 2 hours
Total time: 20 hours
Actions I performed: Today we played games and went over autobiographies of different asl people in history that were important
Next action: Next time we're going to do presentations
How am I doing: I think that some of the mentor stuff we've been doing havent been actually learning about sign language but its been nice learning new things about different people in society that helped the sign language culture. and also I'll be participating in the sign language presentations and trying to do some signs to practice.

April 17, 2011 (community)

Time spent: 2.5 hours
Total: 7.5 hours
Actions I performed today: Today, I worked with the older classes which was the kindergarten and pre school classes. Today I performed and taught them ...

This little light of mine
This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine.
This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine.
This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine.
Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine!

Jesus Loves Me**
Jesus loves me, this I know, For the Bible tells me so.
Little ones to Him belong, They are weak but He is strong.
Yes, Jesus loves me, Yes, Jesus loves me,
Yes, Jesus loves me, The Bible tells me so.

How am I doing? :

I feel like I'm starting off new because its a different class that I'm teaching, but im more comfortable with where I'm at now because I feel like I'm actually teaching kids that are able to understand and learn whats going on, and they actually remember and know the songs so its easier to teach. They have a hard time remembering every sign, but as long as I do it with them, they do pretty well.

April 15, 2011

Time spent: 1.5 hours
Total time: 18hours
Actions I performed: Today we took a quiz today on the objects in the house and where to locate them through signing. After the quiz we also went over the whole vocabulary just to review if we got any wrong.
Next action: Next time I'm here, I think we're going to go through presentations of popular people in the deaf culture.
How am I doing: After taking the quiz, I felt really satisfied with my performance. Since we corrected the quizzes after, I got one of the highest grades in the class 17/20. It wasn't too high but compared to the rest of the class, I felt satisfied. It was confusing distinguishing where in the house things were located which was my downfall but I'm happy with how I did. The quiz really showed me how well I'm learning

April 13, 2011

Time spent: 1.5 hours
Total time: 16.5hours
Actions I performed: Today I took notes on the 3 Different types of Interpretations which are total communication, translation, and captioning.
Next action: We're taking all these notes to prepare the class for a quiz coming up, I'm not sure if I'll be there next time but if I'm not I'll still get a copy of the quiz to take just to see how well I'm learning.
How am I doing: Like I said in a previous blog, It's nice learning concepts of signing and not just cutting straight to the point. Although we didn't do much signing today and learning vocabulary, we went over how signing and speaking is difficult because half of your brain is being used to sign, and the other to speak. We went over the difference between translation and interpretation again. and We also went over why it's so difficult to do signing especially if you have a different first language that you speak. Even though we didn't do much today, I like learning the "behind the scenes" of signing.

April 11, 2011

Time spent: 2 hours
Total time: 15hours
Actions I performed: Today we played games and went over autobiographies of different asl people in history that were important
Next action: Next time we're going to do presentations
How am I doing: I think that some of the mentor stuff we've been doing havent been actually learning about sign language but its been nice learning new things about different people in society that helped the sign language culture. and also I'll be participating in the sign language presentations and trying to do some signs to practice.