Collage-Making (NYU Scholars)

Our Syracuse Scholars did a great job learning how to use the computer and the internet to find images and save them. Here they are, working on their Career Collage.

College-Making (Syracuse Scholars)

In our last week, we made collages with our careers as the theme. The students learned how to use a search-engine (Google) and how to save images on to their computer. Then, we took those images of their chosen careers, along with other elements, and created beautiful collages. You can see them hard at work. All these photos were taken by NYU scholars!

Field Trip! Hayden Planetarium!!

On our third Friday, we had another awesome field trip. This time we headed to the Hayden Planetarium, which is a part of the American Museum of Natural History. We waited outside for the museum to open and it felt so great to get in the air conditioning.

We saw a great show in the actual Planetarium, where we sat in a big round room with the screen above us, like looking at the inside of a globe! It was super great!! To learn more, click on Hayden Planetarium and American Museum of Natural History. And when you go back, don't miss the giant whale!!

Our Local Library - Mott Haven (New York Public Library)

With the summer program focused on careers, our great teachers scheduled a field trip to our local branch of the New York Public Library. The Mott Haven branch is only four blocks away, so we were there in no time. We met the Youth Librarian, named Lauren. When you go in, please say "hi!". She's a really nice person.

The students learned a lot about careers and how to use the public computers at the library to research more about the jobs they'd like to have when they grow up. The best part - those students who didn't have a library card, totally left with a brand-new one! Look how happy they all are in these photos, posing with their cards!!

To learn more, click on New York Public Library. There are so many resources available there, that it's too much to list them all. Some of our favorites are the free loans of books, videos and CDs, the free classes in everything from English to computers and the fact that we can use their computers when we make an easy appointment. And don't forget that your closest branch could be the Mott Haven branch, so click on the name to find out more about location, hours and programs.

Do YOU have a library card? If not, then go get one today. It's FREE!! Here's a list of the things you can do. Just click on them to go to that website:

Get A Library Card

Borrowing Materials

Visiting The Library

Photography: Taking a Great Picture!

Do you want to learn how to take a great picture? One of the first things you know to know is the Rule of Thirds. Have you ever heard of the Rule of Thirds?

Make believe that the photo you're going to take is like a Tic-Tac-Toe board. Two lines doing up and down and two lines going right and left - all equal distance. Then move the camera so that whatever you want to take a photo of is in one of the four spots where the up and down lines meet the right and left line. In other words:

 

not a "Volar" student

It's easy, right?! In the next post, we'll see how our students did. If you want, take a picture of your own and share it in the Comments box below, so we can see how you did!