Journal

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 * 4th** 50 minutes I set up my wiki to record everything through out my Senior Capstone Experience
 * 13th** 15 minutes Today I talked with Mrs. Wollmann about the ideas I had can to a final decision. I decided to continue to do Good News Club, a small VBS that I started when I was sophomore. It goes on for one day a week for six weeks. This year I decided to take it to the next level and do something different. I watched the movie Letters to God last night and it really touched me. I need to make a difference in my community, and touch the lives of these children.
 * 17th** 50 Minutes. Mrs. Shana Smidt came to talk to us about the different search engines and ways to find good reliable sources. She also talked about the South Dakota State Library so we can find different books to use. We got the rest of the time to continue setting up our Wiki page.
 * 19th** 25 minutes. I showed Mrs. Wollmann my letter I am going to send out to the parents/children in grades 1-3. She made grammatical corrections and added and deleted a few small things to make my letter better, and more clear.
 * 23rd** 2 hours work on letter of intent
 * 30th** 10 minutes finished the rough draft of my letter sent out to children/parents about Good News Club
 * 1st** Handed in letter of intent
 * 8th** 30 minutes- Talked with my mentor Ann Hecht about how I changed the format of Good News Club. Instead of splitting up into three groups I decided we are all going to stay in one group and do everything together.
 * 9th** 20 minutes- Showed Mrs. Wollmann my revised letter of intent. We also talked about the options I had for offering. After talking with her I decided I am going to send the offering to Camp Friendship, a camp for people with physical and mental disabilities.
 * 13th** I handed the letters out to the students informing them about Good News Club taking place this fall.
 * 20th** 30 minutes Worked on schedule planned out what I need for the first week of Good News Club and I picked out the activities from my lesson book.
 * 21st** 60 Minutes Went through story broke it down. Wrote down different ways to talk about the story and thought of different questions to ask. Made snack for the first week Oreo cook salad
 * 22nd** 3 hours I went to my church to set up for Good News Club and then Good News Club was underway for the first day!
 * 29th** 3 hours set up for Good News Club and the second week of Good News Club is underway.
 * 4th** 3 hours set up for Good News Club and had the third week
 * 11th** 3 hours set up for Good News Club and had the fourth week
 * 15th** 1 hour Started research for my paper
 * 19th** 1 hour research and note cards
 * 26th** 1 hour research and note cards
 * 3rd** 2 hours research and note cards
 * 4th** 2 hours research and notecards
 * 5th** 3 hours writing paper
 * 6th** 2 hours writing paper
 * 9th** 2 hours writing paper
 * 10th** 1 hour research
 * 11th** ordered books to use for my research paper
 * 12th** 1 hour writing research paper
 * 13th** 1 hour writing research paper
 * 16th** 3 hours reading book and making note cards
 * 17th** 2 hours reading book and making note cards
 * 18th** 1 hours reading book and making note cards
 * 23rd** 3 hours writing paper
 * 26th** 2 hours writing paper
 * 27th** 1 hour writing paper
 * 28th** 3 hours writing paper
 * 29th** 3 hours writing paper
 * 31st** revised paper and handed in to Mrs. Kay Smidt
 * January**
 * 6th** 1 hour made corrections to my research paper
 * 10th** 1 hour made corrections to my research paper
 * 15th** 1 hour made corrections to my research paper
 * 26th** 1 hour made corrections to my research paper
 * February**
 * 5th** 1 hour made corrections to my research paper
 * 21st** 1 hour made corrections to my research paper
 * March**
 * 3rd** Met with Mrs. Wollmann for her to read through my research paper
 * 4th** worked on letter to send out to parents about good news club
 * 6th** Met with Mrs. Wollmann to discus the next 4 weeks of Good News Club. She read over my letter I am sending home with the parents and the article I am putting in the news paper
 * 9th** 2 hours worked on my research paper and deleted 3-4 pages and changed some of the content\
 * 9th** 15 minutes talked with Pastor Mike about dates for Good News Club
 * 12th** Handed out letter to students about Good News Club
 * 16th** 1 hour talked with my mentor about Good News Club
 * 17th** 4 hours worked on research paper and worked on the first lesson for the first week of Good News Club
 * 18th** 3 hours revised lesson, got the game ready, and cut out pictures for armor of God poster. Today was supposed to be the fourth week of Good News Club, but got canceled because of bad weather
 * 21st** 2 hours research paper
 * 23rd** 2 hours research paper
 * 23rd** 1 hour talked with mentor
 * 24th** 1 hours research paper
 * 26th** 1 hour research paper
 * 29th** 1 hour research paper
 * 30th** 1 hour research paper
 * 30th** 1 hour talked with mentor
 * 31st** 2 hours research paper
 * 1st** 3 hours set up for Good News Club and had the fourth week of Good News Club. The new curriculum worked really well and I like it a lot better than the other two I used.
 * 2nd** 2 hour worked on reflection, overview, and letter to the judges
 * 4th** 30 min. research paper
 * 7th** 1 hour made lesson for the last week of Good News Club
 * 8th** 1 hour made lesson and certificates for student who attended Good News Club
 * 9th** 2 hours research paper, reflection, overview, and letter to the judges
 * 10th** handed in my research paper to get revised
 * 11th** 2 hours worked on reflection, overview, and letter to the judges and handed them in to Mrs. Kay Smidt
 * 12th** 3 hours worked on scrapbook, video, presentation
 * 13th** 1 hour worked on scrapbook, video, and presentation
 * 15th** 2 hours worked on scrap book, video, and presentation
 * 16th** 2 hours worked on scrapbook, video, and presentation
 * 17th** 1 hour worked on scrap book, video, and presentation
 * 19th** 2 hours worked on scrap book, video, and presentation
 * 20th** 2 hours worked on scrapbook, video, and presentation
 * 21st** 3 hours worked on scrapbook, video, and presentation
 * 22nd** 30 min presented to the 8th grade English class