My second week

My Second Week

This week I was really excited to start working with my children at Cosgrove School because I already met them and they seemed really eager to learn. On top of this all of the kids I am a reading buddy for have the coolest personalities so it was shaping up to be a good situation. So when Tuesday came around I was all excited to go and at about 12 noon I received a phone call saying that Ms. Alice would be about because her father was extremely sick and to come in on Thursday. So unfortunately my excitement had to wait until Thursday, but when I got there I made up for it with the kids. First I walked into the school and talked to the secretary for a little bit then I walked upstairs into the teacher’s classroom to find out that it was the wrong one. Talk about embarrassing! Eventually I found the children I was supposed to be tutoring even though they were split up into the various classrooms due to the teacher being absent. Once I sat down with the children individually for about 20 minutes or so each going over syllables. During this time of the girls sounded out the syllable dy as the word die and she said thats what my grandmother did last year. It’s amazing how they relate a simple syllable to their everyday life along with how in tune they are with what goes on around them. It made me pause for a second to process what they just had told me, while doing this a rush of sadness fell over me because even though I had only interacted with these children twice I felt a special connection with every single one of them. So the first day pretty much consisted of the syllable activity and some students produced the words or syllables better than the other, but overall they did a nice job.

On the second day that I went to the school I walked into the office again and chit chatted with the secretaries along with another teacher. I guess from what I gathered today the school is expecting a new principal by Thursday. Eventually, I made it up my classroom and took out my children as a group this time and we worked as a group playing a variety of games that helped their recognition of words and syllables. I think the children preferred working in groups because they felt comfortable with their peers and enjoyed having fun with them instead of just one on one time with me going over the same things. We enjoyed a couple of laughs today over some silly words plus I promised them I’d bring them gummy worms on Wednesday since they performed so well today. It was truly a lot of fun to make them laugh and see the smiles on their faces as they got a word correct. One thing that did occur today was a teacher from another classroom was being extremely loud with her class. I couldn’t tell where it was coming from, but the shrieks of her voice were frighting. In addition to this she was being extremely sarcastic with her children and I don’t know why but I though who does she think she is to talk to them like that? But hey what do I know maybe I misunderstood something along the way. Overall it was a very nice experience, everyone is so nice in that school from the faculty to the staff and I love at the end of each session how the kids don’t want me to go. I truly feel like I’m apart of something important in someone else’s life and it’s a nice feeling. See ya next time!! :)