1. What did your group accomplish today?

We finished the rim of our wall and marked the studs that have to go into the wall.

2. What do you have left to complete in order for your wall to be finished?

We need to mark the 10-degree angle on the studs, cut the in that 10-degree angle, and we need to screw and nail them in.

3. Explain how well your group communicated/participated today. Be sure to include one specific example.

We surprisingly did pretty well in communicating, not much of the time people were standing doing nothing, so we got a lot of work done.

Here we are measuring the 10-degree angle

1. What did your group accomplish today?

We finished the sidewalls and measured the 10-degree angle for the top plate.

2. What do you have left to complete in order for your wall to be finished?

We need to cut the 10-degree angle and put in that stud, and but in all the other studs.

3. What help do you need from me (Adon Kaufman) or your classmates? Be specific.

I need help with using the circular saw because I don’t know how to use it.

This is us hammering the nail into the wood

1. Describe what skills (s) you have learned so far. Who taught you those skills? How did they teach you those skills? How can you master those skills?

I learned how to put in a nail correctly, AK taught me that you should but the hammer flat on the nail, and not angled. He taught me that, doing a demonstration. I can master That skill by keep on hammering in nails the correct way.

2. Explain if you believe your group is ahead or behind other groups. Explain why you believe you are at that point.

I think we are behind because we are not working together at a group because we don’t really get along, so we spend most of our time yelling at each other and getting nothing done.

3. How effectively did your group communicate and collaborate with each other? Provide one SPECIFIC example to support your point.

We did not communicate or collaborate well at all because some people annoy other people, some people don’t want help when they are obviously doing a bad job, and is it really my fault if I want the sukkah to look good without screws and nail poking out of the sides?

4. Today is a complete reset from last week. What is one goal YOU have for yourself? Explain why you picked that goal.

My goal is to try not to yell at other people, because if I yell at them, they will most likely yell at me, and then we will get into an argument that doesn’t end well.

5. What is one goal you have for YOUR team? Explain why you picked that goal.

My goal for my team is the same goal for me because we all have the same problem except MMM.

1. What are the five steps to solving a problem (please list the steps)?

1. take a deep breath
2. take a walk
3. talk to them nicely
4. if they are still yelling at you talk to a teacher
5. wait for the teacher to talk to the student and keep doing your work

2. Your group identified a problem you were experiencing. What was the problem? What were your solutions?

Our problem was that we kept on yelling at each other and we would waste time because we wouldn’t stop yelling at each other. are solutions are above.

3. Describe how it felt working with your group after you identified your problem and came up with solutions.

It felt a little better, we didn’t yell as much and people were a little nicer, but the problem was still there because no one can change in that way over night.

This is me cutting some bolts to take off the stripped parts

1. You spent time reflecting on past blog posts (looking at your strengths and weaknesses).
Describe the value, using a specific example from your blog post, of looking back and reflecting on our work

This was good because before I would write”It made me feel better that I was apologizing for the things I did/said on Wednesday.” but looking back I realised that that did not have much detail and I changed it to”It made me feel better that I was apologizing for the things I did/said on Wednesday because I felt bad about those things and I wanted to apologize.”

2. We started to build our walls. What would you have done differently during the process and WHY? Explain what you did and how your fix would have made it better.

Here we are putting the nuts on the bolts

We should have used smaller bolts because now we are going to have very large bolts sticking out of our sukkah which. When we were buying our stuff the person that bought the bolts thought it was a good idea to get 8-inch bolts. Which was not.

1. Provide a SPECIFIC example of when you or a member of your group struggled to communicate effectively, with empathy, or appropriately. Make sure to include:
a. What led to that situation of miscommunication
b. How you felt when the miscommunication happened
c. How that miscommunication should have been handled instead

We struggled with telling each other what to do. Some people were just doing nothing while other people were doing all the work. This was because there wasn’t much to do because the only thing there was to do was to saw the bolts because they were stripped and we couldn’t put on the nuts. We should have taken more frequent turns to saw the bolt instead of people just sitting there doing nothing.

This is me putting on the nuts on a carriage bolt

2. Explain how poor communication let your team down. Make sure to include:
a. What was your team goal
b. What did you achieve in comparison to your team goal.

It let us down because when people were doing nothing the got quite loud and disrupted everyone else. Our goal was to finish the top bottom and side plates but we can’t do that if half of the group is doing nothing. We only unstripped one of the carriage bolts and got not much else done.

3. Describe one positive example of communication you witnessed/did yesterday during class. Make sure to include:
a. What was the situation
b. How did it feel different
c. What the outcome of that communication was

For the first part of the class we were doing good, everyone had something to do and no one was arguing. It felt different because no one was arguing and it felt like we were actually working as a team, but the second half we were just yelling at each other.

1. Describe the restorative circle process (when we wrote on our note cards and shared). Include: how you felt writing your notecard, how you felt sharing your notecard, how you felt if/when someone shared a notecard with you

It made me feel better that I was apologizing for the things I did/said on Wednesday because I felt bad about those things and I wanted to apologize. It also felt good receiving letters from people that were maybe not nice to me or irritating at that moment. It felt good because they realized that they did something wrong and they’re apologizing for that. I also wrote a letter to the entire class just in case I missed somebody with the individual apologies, I just apologized about if I was irritating or bossing around (which I was).

2. Describe how much easier/harder it was to bring the wood in when we were all working together. Include: how did it feel to work together, how were you communicating, how quickly things got done when we worked together

Here a friend and I are organizing the wood into 2x4x8’s 2x4x10’s 2x4x12’s and 2x4x16’s

It was a lot easier because people understood that it would be easier to have help to bring to wood than to have only them bringing it alone. This was good because now there are a couple fewer dents in the door frame then there could have been. It felt like a machine to work together like we just knew what to do and when to do it. We communicated pretty well people would yell help and someone would come to their help. Things got done fairly quickly because like I said before we worked like a machine.