Panther - Sept 20, 2004

The day began with Saafir, Myles, and myself just spending time with the kids in the teen room, listening to them talk and watching them play on the internet. The kids in the room were about half Year One Design It kids and the other half were new to us. Bill Voss showed up with 2 snakes and a tarantula, which turned out ot be a big hit with all the club kids. After a while, we all sat down and began to talk with all the teens at the club, or at least, all the ones who came to join us this day. There were about 10 kids with us. Saafir was telling them about Design it and trying to see if any of the new teens would be interested. Myles asked them all what they did over the summer that they thought was cool, and then we did this really cool exercise with straws!! We made straw instruments, and a few of the kids seemed to really enjoy the activity. I took a few pictures of this. I think Saafir, Myles, Bill, and myself were having more fun with it that the kids!! There was an absence of some of our Year One kids, whether because of football practice or club interest, or some of them just weren't at the club this day. Saafir will be going back to the club on wednesday while i am working with the ALA kids at the museum. We will be asking the club kids to commit to signing up for cycle work so that we can know ho we will be working with from the club until mindfest. We are hoping to have the kids involved in all mindfest events possible.
( we need to make sure that there are rules in place for people coming and going from the teen room, as well as following the club rules for music and language.)
Jonathon