Mentor+Meetings

__Mentor Meetings with Ms. Rachel__

= = =__1st Mentor Meeting__ =

Plan:
Introduce ourselves and let our metor, Ms Rachel, know about our group, issue and action ideas.

Reflection:
Everything fell into place, she fully understood our issue and she gave us some ideas of having a good action. We will work on putting our ideas together next time.

Correspondency:
Dear Ms. Rachel,

The Grade 5 Packaging Group would like to thank you for volunteering and sparing your precious time to support us through our Exhibition process. Our group is concerned about too much packaging and would love to share what we know with you about this issue.

We are very keen to start working with you and are looking for a time when we can meet. Could you please send us any times that are convenient for you to meet with us? Attached to this email, you will find our schedule. We will not be available during the blacked out times as they are our speciallist times.

This website below is our Exhibition website and we would like you to view it any time. We have not started to put much work on it yet but we will soon update all our work onto our Wiki. [|ttp://hkagr5-packaging-exhibition-2012.wikispaces.com/wiki/about]

You can also look forward to receiving your mentor booklet soon, which will list a timeline of events and a meeting log and we will explain this at our first meeting.

The goal of our first meeting is to introduce ourselves and share with you the research we have done on our chosen issue.

We look forward to hearing from you soon and working with you next week.

Regards, Grade 5 Exhibition Packaging Group,

Chloe Noah Juliana Keith Kevin

Replied Message/Dicisions Made
Dear Chloe (and Noah, Juliana, Keith and Kevin),

I am really looking forward to meeting together. I am also quite interested in your topic, so I am curious to hear about what you have learned and where you are heading with your ideas.

Here are 2 options for meeting times:

My first choice: Wednesday 11:30-12:00 (My classroom-room 103-is available)

My second choice: Thursday 9:30-10:00

Let me know when you all would like to meet. I am happy to start next week!

Ms. Rachel

=__2nd Mentor Meeting__ =

Plan:
Talk about our Primary research and what we are think of doing so not only she could comment of it, but would like to add to the ideas.

Reflection:
She agreed on our idea, we put everything together and made a big plan of discovering the ammount of reusable and dispossible packaging are in it by going up to the Primary Lunchroom.

=__3rd Mentor Meeting__ =

Plan:
Talk about how our Primary Research is running and the updated wiki.

Correspondency:
Dear Ms. Rachel, We would like to know when you would be able to spare a short, 20 minutes with us for a mentor meeting next week?

Best Reagards,

The Grade 5 Exhibition Packaging Group

Replied Message
Hi Everyone, Could we meet on Wedesday 11:30 like we did the first time? I am always available at that time each week to meet with you. Ms. Rachel

Decision Made

 * Dear Ms. Rachel,

Thank you for replying! We wish to meet you next Wedesday at 11:30, hope to see you there!

Best Regards, The Grade 5 Exhibition Packaging Group ||

=__4th Mentor Meeting__ =

Plan:
Tell her about how our action, competition is going. What we think about it. And what she thinks we can approve on.

Reflection:
In this Mentor Meeting, we talked a lot about our problems with the competition and, also, how we were going to end it off. We didn't really end off the competition with a BANG though. We were planning for the 1st graders to make trophies for the winners. That WOULD have been fun but, alas, we couldn't find the right time. We also had the possibility of the 1st graders not wanting to come. Then, we had the problem of the cleaners. As you may know, a couple days were messed up because the cleaners cleaned up our bags that we put up. Other than that, we always update her on a lot of events that have been happening over the past couple of days before. We are always busy so there is a lot to talk about. = Correspondency: =

Dear Ms. Rachel,

We will be happening to have a mentor meeting tomorrow at 11:30am as usual. We will briefly talk about the competition so far. We hope that you are available and to see you tomorrow!

Best Regards,

The Packaging Group

Chloe Kevin Keith Noah Juliana

Replied Message/Decision Made
Dear Packaging Group,

Yes, I will see you tomorrow at 11:30.

Ms. Rachel

=__5th Mentor Meeting__ =

Plan
Talk about the day at Keith's house; Our presentation plan

Correspondency
Dear Ms. Rachel,

We want to meet with you next Wednesday at the same time like always. Is that okay with you?

Best Regards,

Chloe

=__Mentor Meeting Reflection__ =

Our mentor meetings occur every Wednesday. Our group tries our best to update our mentor with everything. We talk about our competition, how we are going in exhibition, and how our exhibition stall will look like. We are still deciding, though, what the prize will be. I have made several notes in all of our mentor meetings and we have been doing great so far. In our talks about our competition, we talked about what was going wrong, what we are doing right and what we should improve. As you may have noticed, we have arranged the trash bags differently in the two weeks of our competition. This was partly our mentor’s idea. Also, it was Ms. Julie’s idea to put the hooks in the lunchrooms. This week, we talked about educating the PKs and how we will create our trophy. We have decided to collect trash over the holidays. We hope that our Mentor Meetings will be more common after days and days pasts.