YAC ACTING IN THE COMMUNITY

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY SATURDAYS -YAC ACTING IN THE COMMUNITY 

BRITTON BRONCO BOOM PROJECT HELPERS

"UCO faculty and students decided to provide after-school activities and other services to Britton Elementary School. Faculty members and students work with students on reading comprehension and math with connections to physical activity.  Casady YAC students were invited to participate when their schedules allowed it.  

Site supervisor: Angel Jackson, OCU Intern, jackson.angel6@gmail.com  

Opportunity Facilitators:  UCO Faculty Member:  Dr. Sara Coles @ SCole13@uco.edu or (405)974-5130, UCO Associate Professor of Community/Public Health,  and Dr. Rachelle Franz, Kinesiology and Health Studies UCO, 974-3414

Saturdays- 3-6th grade only

8:30 am-12:30 am (4 hours)

February 28

March 7

March 28

THANK YOU CASADY'S SAGE DINING FOR  DELICIOUS APPLES!

Week Days @ Britton Elementary

Mentoring Schedule

•  UCO allotted 30 mins. Per break out session (3) groups and times are as follows:

1.	5-6th graders:	4-4:30pm
2.	3 and 4th graders:	4:30-Spm
3.	K-2nd graders:	Spm-5:30pm

•  Approximately 15-25 students  per group. Currently  recruiting more.Total 6 teachers

•   Programs should all include Math and Reading component as required  by the Title I grant.

•  Snack donations are needed

Weekdays  3:30 pm-5:30 pm (2 hour sessions)

February 23, 25, and 26

March 2, 4, and 5

March 23, 25, and 26

 THURSDAY VOLUNTEER: YAC SENIOR CO-CHAIR @ BRITTON BRONCO BOOM

Chinese Club Celebrates Chinese New Year, the Year of the Ram/Sheep/Goat?

Happy Chinese New Year

New Year of the Ram/Sheet/Goat




The Chinese Club, led by Co-Presidents Allison T.'16 and Daniel L.'15 had a fantastic Chinese lunch at the Middle Division Community Room.  Over 100 Upper Division students attended.  The cost of the meal was $10 or $20 which included a Chinese Club T-shirt.  The Chinese New Year meal was a donation of the Grand House Restaurant.  Proceeds of the meal go to Half the Sky Foundation, an organization that helps orphan Chinese children with a variety of programs including medical care.  Chinese Club t-shirts are still available at $15.  Contact Mandarin Chinese teacher Joanne Jew if interested.  jewj@casady.org.

Reflection from teen Co-presidents: Forthcoming!

What is the Half the "Sky Foundation?


Half the Sky Foundation Presentation from Brian King on Vimeo.
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What is the Chinese New Year?   http://www.history.com/topics/holidays/chinese-new-year

2015, Is it the year of the Ram, the Sheep or the Goat?



Pictures of the Chinese New Year Celebration Lunch

Dessert Table

Chinese Club

Chinese New Year Lunch Organizers

T-shirts are still available for $15

CYCLONE RAKs an elderly facility

A TEENS RAK CLUB

Mrs. Finley's Class reads to Primary Division Students, A Service-Learning Experience

Each trimester Casady seniors take a new English course. Multiple Genre Creative Writing, taught by Whitney Finley, is one of the courses offered during the winter trimester, and students in this course have concluded a unit of study focused on children’s literature.

After spending a few days reading and critiquing children’s literature, the seniors began the process of crafting their own stories. They worked diligently on their projects, and they were conscientious about content, structure, characterization, illustrations, and use of rhetorical devices. The project culminated with an opportunity for the seniors to share their stories with kindergarten children.

“The pressure is on when you know that at the end of your work, you are going to be critiqued by real six-year-olds,” said one of Mrs. Finley's students.

The 2010-11 school year was the first year for this project, and it was such a great success that the kindergarten teachers used the experience as a launching pad for their students to write stories too. This year, plans are underway for Casady kindergarteners to craft their own unique stories and reciprocate a sharing time with seniors in the spring.

Service-Learning Best Practices
http://www.marylandpublicschools.org/NR/rdonlyres/F246CE8B-AA63-4B76-A0B5-EFC6FB724BEF/26000/K12_National_Standards_green.pdf

 

K-12 Service-Learning Standards for Quality Practice

Meaningful Service Service-learning actively engages participants in meaningful and personally relevant service activities.	Link to Curriculum Service-learning is intentionally used as an instructional strategy to meet learning goals and/or content standards.	Reflection Service-learning incorporates multiple challenging reflection activities that are ongoing and that prompt deep thinking and analysis about oneself and one’s relationship to society.	Diversity Service-learning promotes understanding of diversity and mutual respect among all participants.
Youth Voice Service-learning provides youth with a strong voice in planning, implementing, and evaluating service-learning experiences with guidance from adults.	Partnerships Service-learning partnerships are collaborative, mutually beneficial, and address community needs.	Progress Monitoring Service-learning engages participants in an ongoing process to assess the quality of implementation and progress toward meeting specified goals, and uses results for improvement and sustainability.	Duration and Intensity Service-learning has sufficient duration and intensity to address community needs and meet specified outcomes

Kindergarten Students Read to Seniors in Literacy Exchange

The second half of the Senior-Kindergarten Literary Exchange took place in April 2015.   In February 2015, the seniors in Mrs. Whitney Finley's English creative writing class composed childrens' books and took them to Primary Division to read to kindergarteners. This spring, the Primary Division students reciprocated by composing their own stories with illustrations to show and read to the seniors during a lunchtime Literacy Exchange. The kindergarteners traveled to the Upper Division Quad to meet the seniors in the Dr. John W. Records Science and Art Building and in Cochran Library where they shared lunch, and the kindergarten students read their books to our seniors. This fulfilling activity connected some of the youngest to some of our oldest on campus in our Casady Community.

UD Hospitality has a viewing of baby Patrick Blizzard, MEET and GREET!

Mrs. Amanda Pardue and Mrs. Phyllis Seitter are the facilitators of the UD Hospitality Team. They decorated the Casady Woolsey Wing , baked delicious cakes and helped by 4 other members of the UD hospitality team (Dianne Dawkins ,
Devon Callens,  Carmen Clay, and Angie Milligan)  had a meet and greet, viewing of Father Blizzard's baby, Patrick Blizzard.  The official photographer of the Viewing was Patrick's older brother Sawyer Blizzard.

PATRICK IS ADORABLE!

Patrick's equally adorable brothers and sister