Week 33-34: Celebrating completing the CST!

All Markham students have been testing for the past two weeks. Four days out of these past two weeks school ended at 12:50. Our after-school program runs until 5 p.m., so we had to come up with some fun things for the students to do for that four hour stretch. Thanks to my teammates Charlotte and Melanie who are in charge of our after-school program there were some pretty darn cool activities:

We played an Olympic-type of game where students split into teams and competed for a prize. The first challenge was to assemble a puzzle of the United States

My team – One Krew – prepping for the challenges at Ted Watkins park in Watts with my teammates Daniel and Ricky

One of the challenges was to get a hula hoop down the line without using hands

My teammate Tessa’s mom is an actress and was the lead role in Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves. The students watched the movie and then got a surprise visit from a celebrity in the movie! They had a Q and A session with her and were really interested in what she had to say.

We made silly putty! (which I had no idea was so easy to make)

“Around the World in Four Hours” — students made foods from different cultures, presented them to the rest of the group and got to eat everything while watching a movie about Africa. My group made Alfajores, which is a caramel cookie made in Spain.

Made in China

Field trip to the California Science Center! Checking out infrared light

Looking at the exhibits

Just for clarification — he wasn’t looking at the fish, he was yelling at them to scare them

Oh — and we made piñatas that the kids will break open next week