Semester 2 Launches and 14 are already hard at work!

Calculating surface area

Second Semester started this week. There are a lot of new students in Learning 4Life Success. Those of us with experience are helping them get going. There is a lot to learn!

We do a lot of hands-on learning.

1. How to "clock in" and "tap out."
2. What are the ten Workplace Expectations we have to know?
3. How do you make a bookmark of the class website on your browser?
4. Tips for remembering your homework.
5. How to use your checkbook.

We use technology for learning.

6. When you can earn pizza.
7. Getting back from break on time is important.
8. Everyone in here is a young adult with high potential. To get into this program you have to get a teacher's recommendation.
9. Having an agenda is helpful.
10. Our classroom is really more like our workplace and we are the employees. 
11. We get paid (a daily wage) as part of a simulation called "Earn and Learn." It's not real money. It's a simulation (you practice hard things in a simulation so you can do them in real life).
12. You get a bonus if you have zero behavior issues. 
13. We have to pay rent and utilities. 
14. We can also earn for doing different activities. Some of us might get a promotion. 

The way we learn in here is a lot different from our other experiences. In one way, it is harder. You can't fool around. 

But in another way it is better for a lot of us. You find out you can do hard things. You get ideas on things for adult life. It is sort of intense for the first time. It is math, writing, reading, discussion, researching all in one. We have to act like adults. That is hard but okay.

Everybody has a notebook. It is a Handbook for Adult Life. So far in just a few days we already have a lot of "Word Wall Words." Most of them are about checking accounts and applications.