Monthly Archives: September 2019

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This us framing out our doorway so people that walk through fit, and so it all fits together. We worked together good because communicated good we were all working.

This is us lifting our wall so we can free up our studs to measure and cut. We worked together good because we were all doing something. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This us labeling where to cut the wood so we can line it up correctly for the inside frame. We worked together good because we were helping each other. 

This a picture of us working on the frame because we need it to make the plywood more stable. We worked together good because we helped each other. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a picture of us figuring out where to cut the wood so it fits for the inside frame. We worked together good because were were helping each other when we messed up or didn’t know what to do. 

 

Sukkah Day 11

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1. What did your group accomplish today? We finished the frame.

2. What do you have left to complete in order for your wall to be finished? We have to finish the inside studs.

3. Explain how well your group communicated/participated today. Be sure to include one specific example. Our group communicated well. An example of this is when someone didn’t know what to do, we gave them some choices on what to do.

This me and my finishing the frame.

Sukkah Day 10

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1. What did your group accomplish yesterday? We finished putting some of our walls together. And we communicated better.

2. What do you have left to complete in order for your wall to be finished? We have to put the last 2 by 4 on. And we need to cut the last two by 4 so it fits with the other ones.

3. What help do you need from me (Adon Kaufman) or your classmates? Be specific. I think that our group needs help from someone to show us how cut the 2 by for at the right angle.

Here is a picture of one of us screwing one piece of wood into another.

Sukkah Day 9

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1. Describe what skills (s) you have learned so far. Who taught you those skills? How did they teach you those skills? How have you mastered those skills? I learned that it’s better to use nails for holding stuff together that might wobble. And that screws are better for holding two pieces of wood together. Our teach told us about this. I practiced it and practice makes perfect.

2. Explain if you believe your group is ahead of behind other groups. Explain why you believe you are at that point. Our group is behind. I know this because we are terrible at working as a team.

3. How effectively did your group communicate and collaborate with each other? Provide one SPECIFIC example to support your point. Our group sucks at communicating because we suck at working as a team.

4. Today is a complete reset from last week. What is one goal YOU have for yourself? Explain why you picked that goal. A goal for myself is to try to not to annoy my teammates. I picked this goal because I think that that will help us communicate better.

5. What is one goal you have for YOUR team. Explain why you picked that goal.  To communicate better because if we communicate better, I think that we will be able to work faster.

Sukkah Day 9

Sukkah Day 8 Problem Solving

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1. What are the five steps to solving a problem (please list the steps)? Define the steps, Stay calm and remind yourself that you can work it out. Use calming strategies if you need them. Think of at least three ways to solve the problem. Discuss the solutions with your friend and agree on one. If the solution works, you are done. If not, try another idea.

2. Your group identified a problem you were experiencing. What was the problem? What were your solutions? We don’t get along. Take breaks, Do different things, Compromise.

3. Describe how it felt working with your group after you identified your problem and came up with solutions. I felt like we were communicating better.

Sukkah Day 7

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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? I was annoying them and we were mad at each other.
b. How you felt when the miscommunication happened? I didn’t really feel anything because when I didn’t have anything to, I just walk around aimlessly and day dream.
c. How that miscommunication should have been handled instead? Whenever we finish doing something we give each other jobs.

2. Explain how poor communication let your team down. Make sure to include:
a. What was your team goal? To finish putting the Carriage bolts in.
b. What did you achieve in comparison to your team goal? We planned ahead by opening a new google doc and putting 3 jobs for each of us in them.
3. Describe one positive example of communication you witnessed/did yesterday during class. Make sure to include:
a. What was the situation? When we double teamed drilling pilot holes into the wood.
b. How did it feel different? We got it done faster, and it just felt better to not argue.
c. What the outcome of that communication was? It got all of us mad because pretty much the whole time it sucked.

This is a picture of us working on cutting the stripped Carrige bolts:

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1. You spent time reflection 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. It shows us how we can improve for the future. An example of this is, after I looked at my blog post reflection, the next day I wasn’t as hyper.

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. When I had nothing to do, I think that I should have offered to help a different group instead of walking around aimlessly, and day dreaming. That would have made it better because helping out is nice, and it would have made it faster.

Here’s a picture of us drilling Pilate holes.

Sukkah Organization Day 5

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1. Describe the restorative circle process (when we wrote on our note cards and shared). Include: how you felt writing your note card, how you felt sharing your note card, how you felt if/when someone shared a note card with you. When they were sharing their note cards with me, I knew that they didn’t actually mean it. And I was right because at lunch they kept exactly what they said they wouldn’t do. Though that’s also what I did. When I was writing mine, I didn’t really feel anything.

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. When we were briniging the plywood, it was much easier to do it with a partner, than doing it alone, because it was balenced.

Here is a picture of us carrying the wood:

Egg Drop Challenge

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Describe your prototype design. Our design looks like a potato. Our design is a Dixie cup that has cushion, and an egg on the inside, and has cushion on the outside. The cushion is tissues.  And it has a balloon on the top hanging on a string that’s connected to the “potato.”

How does your prototype protect the egg? Our prototype protects the egg because it has cushion on the inside, and on the outside.

Describe your design process, in detail. At the beginning we came up with a bunch of ideas, and then we chose which one to build. Then we ended up building our design, though we built it pretty fast. So then out teacher told us to challenge ourselves. So we tried to make it smaller. It still worked so then we made it smaller 2 more times and it kept working, so now we are starting a new idea.

What worked well in your design? We made a bunch of prototypes, and it worked before we did the official drop. I think we might have squished the prototype too many times by accident, and before I opened the prototype, I tossed it and the parts over and away from where most of them land, and right before it hit the ground it it hit a side of the wall.

What was challenging throughout this process? What would you do differently? Next time, what I would do differently is to try harder to think before I do, for when I tossed it away from where my classmates prototypes land, because that might have been the 1 of the reasons that our prototype broke. What I think was challenging was when we were having to decide which idea to choose. What was also challenging was when I had to stop building for the day. What I think was also challenging was when we had to stop building our 2nd idea for good, because it was also the day of the challenge.

Here’s a picture of our potato: