CCMS Service Project-Week One

This is the first week of my service project with Corpus Christi Montessori School. I have been assigned to a student from CCMS and their parent. I am very excited to get started with this service project. It will be my responsibility to assist this student during their research project over parts of a flower. I will help my student and parent create a blog for this research project, which will include weekly reflections, google document links, and a voice thread.

This week I have been preparing for my first meeting with my student and their parent. I have attempted to contact my parent and student in order to meet with them, but I have not been able to contact them by phone or email. In the meantime, I have been looking over some specific resources in preparation for this meeting: 21st Century Learning, How to Help Your Child Excel, and The Art of Asking Good Questions. These resources are very informative and I even sent them to my CCMS parent so that they could benefit from them as well.

I am looking forward to meeting with my student. I plan on asking the student some questions concerning their specific assignment during the meeting and getting them signed up for a blogger account. Also, I would like to start a KWL chart in a google document that the student can link in a blog reflection for that week. (Each week the student will post a blog reflection in their blog and I will post a blog reflection in my blog.) We will start with what the student already knows and what she would like to know. Later, we will go back and fill in the other part, being what the student learned from the project. After this first meeting I will have a much better idea of my student's specific project and the student's knowledge of the topic.

You can go and check out my google document if you want to see the specific open-ended questions that I will be asking my student at our first meeting.