1. What did you do today (describe the process of what you accomplished)? – minimum of 3 complete sentences

Today I measured where we need to cut our whiteboard. We need to do it in a weird way because little kids are short and our whiteboard is not so we have to trim it down a little and we also have to cut it around the window. After that, I faced the rather difficult task of screwing in our window. You wouldn’t think this is difficult but it is really hard to screw in upside-down pieces of wood.

2. What is one thing you have done so far you were initially scared/worried about, but now feel more confident in after all this practice? – minimum of 3 complete sentences

At the beginning of this sukkah building, I was worried about making straight lines for all my cuts because previously whenever I work with Kaufman on a project he always makes me redo my lines about 4 times. I had to make straight lines in this project for both our studs and more recently the whiteboard. With all the extra practice I really feel like I’ve progressed in my ability to make straight lines.

3. Give a step by step account of what you have done so far to get our Sukkah up to where it is today.

1. We planned the design for our sukkah
2. We decided on a design for our sukkah
3. We figured out what materials we needed to build the sukkah
4. We bought those materials
5. We screwed in the top and bottom plates.
6. We then put carriage bolts in the top and bottom plates
7. We brought all the wood that we needed outside
8. We connected the corner plates and the bottom plates
9. We figured out how we needed to cut the studs
10. We cut the studs
11. We screwed and nailed in all our studs
12. We Cut out the space for our window
13. We screwed in our windows top and bottom plates
14. We painted our MJDS
15. We measured out our whiteboard to be cut
16. We screwed in our window

What our screwed in window looks like

A nice little view of what our sukkah looked like before the window came in.

The beautifully painted MJDS on top of our whiteboard.

1. What did you do today (describe the process of what you accomplished)? – minimum of 3 complete sentences

Today I was able to get the window completely ready to be put in the wall. I wasn’t able to put it in the wall though because for some reason we’re going to wait to do that until the wall is up or something like that. After that was done I was able to help SM21 and SE21 with painting the giant MJDS the correct colors We were then able to finish that and get it ready to be hung up.

2. What is one thing you have done so far you were initially scared/worried about, but now feel more confident in after all this practice? – minimum of 3 complete sentences

I was really scared about being able to screw in all the screws. In the past, I am not good at stripping screws. It definitely helped that then screws we were using were unstrippable (I still managed to strip one). Other than the one screw that got stripped because we were using the wrong drill bit, I was able to get in all the screws without a hitch.

3. Give a step by step account of what you have done so far to get our Sukkah up to where it is today.

1. We planned the design for our sukkah
2. We decided on a design for our sukkah
3. We figured out what materials we needed to build the sukkah
4. We bought those materials
5. We screwed in the top and bottom plates.
6. We then put carriage bolts in the top and bottom plates
7. We brought all the wood that we needed outside
8. We connected the corner plates and the bottom plates
9. We figured out how we needed to cut the studs
10. We cut the studs
11. We screwed and nailed in all our studs
12. We Cut out the space for our window
13. We screwed in our windows top and bottom plates
14. We painted our MJDS

SM21 attaching the much troubled “S” in MJDS together.

A sneak peek at our MJDS

YG21 and I screwing in our window’s top and bottom plates.

1. Explain in at least two sentences what YOU accomplished today.
Today I was able to cut the studs where the window needs to go. I was then also able to help Yosef get the bottom and top plates for the window cut. Then I screwed those into the studs by the window.
2. Explain in at least two sentences what YOUR GROUP accomplished today.

Besides what I already did, my group was also able to connect a lot of our milk cartons. The tops were also cut off of all of them too so that they’re easier to connect.

3. Explain in at least two sentences what YOUR GROUP has to finish tomorrow. If you don’t know, ask a group member.

Tomorrow we need to finish connecting our milk cartons. There is also a possibility that we may be able to start painting them.

1. Today, we worked on boy getting our window in and finishing our studs and it felt good to do this because after we were done with the studs Kaufman said I did a good job.

2. An example of when I worked well with a classmate was when while I was working on a project that only 1 or 2 people could do at a time my other classmates were able to work with another group.

3. I have the window and plywood left on my Sukkah wall. I am feeling optimistic. about the amount of work left.