Selling Sandwiches on the Valentines Day.

My group has planned to sell the sandwiches tomorrow on the Valentines Disco. 

I order to sell the sandwiches we have to buy packs of bred, cheese and ham.

Each person from the group new in advance what he/she has to buy in order to run the activity.

 I am going to buy packs of bread and also cheese. 

There will be approximately 60 students attending the disco so we are going to make sure that every student will be able to buy the sandwich.

In our groups we have decided that Sandwiches with ham and cheese will be 50 rubles,  sandwiches only with cheese will be 40 rubles. 

I hope that at the end of the day students will like the sandwiches we' ll sell and I hoe we will meet our target of raising 10000 rubles and then donating that money to the orphanage. 

SNOW Day !!

On snow day our group planned and initiated painting on the snow activity.
In order to paint on the snow we brought acrylic paints and Sabina brought brushes.
All the colours,  which were needed we brought.  The idea was that students will take the paints mis them with water and then draw on the snow with brushes. However afterwards Ms Platt suggested an idea that it will be better and faster if we used bottles and put water and paints in them and mix it.  She gave us bottles for paints and the result was really good. We had to refill the bottles with water very often as the paints run out. By the help of Miss Kitchen we managed to organise children and we explained to them that first they should make a sculpture as whole group and then start to paint on it.
As an overall result each year group made a sculpture or a drawing on the snow.
It was a creativity activity and therefore each student could make whatever sculpture or painting they wanted to.  However our group proposed ideas to them and some of them actually used the ideas we told them to.
I really liked the sculptures made by a year 8 girls.  It was a rabbit,  which I also colored.
Children made all sorts of painting,  the snow was colourful .  One part of it was covered by an abstract painting,  one part of it was covered by a sculpture of a turtle,  the snow on the small bushes was colored in pink and the most important thing is that all kids in my opinion enjoyed the activity as well as learned a new technique of art.
By doing this activity I learned how to organise students and initiate the activity,  as I brought some of the paints and proposed some of the ideas to children.
Also in my opinion what advantaged this activity,  thanx to Sabina was that we also could use food paints as they dissolved in water very quickly and gave a brighter colour.
At the start of the activity we told to students that they use one particular field of snow,  however at the end of it they also used the fields of snow closer to the one we suggested them to.  We let them do that as the overall result came up very nice and one of the main targets of this activity was to give them an opportunity to use their imagination and fantasy.

our group achieved the following outcomes:

1) Plan and Initiate New Activities2) Work Collaboratively With Others3) Develop New Skills4) Undertake new challenges

These are the sculptures and paintings, which students maid:

Painting on the snow!!! (PLan)

As the creativity and service part of the CAS me, Sabina and Neda decided to run the activity where children could paint on the snow.
For that we will need to buy the paints and organise the year groups.
FIrst We have to buy the paints needed,  then we have to buy brushes and the main idea is that students will first have to make the sculptures and then paint on them.
The sculptures,  which came on my mind and in my opinion will be easily done are a snowman, rabbit, a turtle and just different paints on the snow.
I hope that students will enjoy the activity and it will work out.

Sewing.

Fot the creativity part of my CAS I am doing sewing every week at least for an hour.  In my opinion I have a big progress because now the picture of a flower, which I was sewing is already done and my friends and parents really like it. 

Sewing gave me an opportunity to be creative and also to improvise.  Now I can freely sew without even looking at the picture and it is a type of art,  which I never practiced before.

By making a new picture I undertook new opportunities and developed new skills. 

In my opinion I also showed commitment in the activity and now I am more than happy to teach how to sew to my friends and show what patterns and techniques they are. 

I am planning to put this picture in the frame and give it to the cleaning lady at my house.  She is a very nice person,  who loves flowers and I really hope she will like my present. 

Making a video.

In the chemistry class me and my classmates had an opportunity to make a small documentary movie.  Everyone from the class had a role which he/she is going to perform.  I had to edit the movie and be a scientist who is explaining to a journalist and a capitalist the advantages and the disadvantages of lipids.

It took us a lot of time to plan and film the movie since we had to make up the story.  We had a lot of film trials amongst which they were unsuccessful and successful ones.  I had to edit them afterwards.  I undertook new challenges by editing the documentary movie and I also had an opportunity to be creative.  it took me a considerable amount of time to do it and by doing it I also developed new skills which I will definitely use in the future as I really enjoyed editing.
I also showed the short documentary movie to my friends from the russian state school and the university.  They liked it and I also shared my skills with them.

Cooking national food for the international day!!

For the International day I made Qutabs.  Qutabs are the traditional Azeri food.  By making them I developed new skills because before I never made Qutabs.  I found the recipe on the internet and bought all of the products needed for making Qutabs.  I needed meet,  green vegetable and also pumpkin because I wanted to make three different types of qutabs.
The most challenging part of cooking was to make a dough and rolling it.  After the dough was ready I put the cooked ingredients into it and Qutab was  already ready to be cooked.
After it was ready I was looking forward to bring it to school and see if teachers,  parents and classmates like it.  It turned out to be well and I was happy that I had an opportunity to show people in the school one type of my national cuisine.
Most of the people who tried Qutabs asked me about the special ingredients which was put on top of it. I explained about the ingredient called "Sumax",  which is used not only in Azeri cuisine but also in most of the Middle East countries.

Raffle Tickets.

In order to buy presents for children at the orphanage I had to collect money.  Me and Sophia decided to organize a sale of the raffle tickets.  Sophia made a poster and I made a tickets.  Minjin was helping to us to sale the tickets.  We collected about 2 thousand roubles and at the end when everyone bought the ticket the winner got a price.  The price was a full bag of candies and chocolates.  

I worked collaboratively with others and planned and initiated the activity.  

It was also nice to see that the BIS students wanted to help us buy presents for children.