Alright to kick things off, a week late, in all my glory, this is my first blog post of all time?
Anyways, I volunteered at an elementary school for the first time (this year) on sept. 24th. I really liked it, the building was a newer school, and it was very clean, and very easy to navigate. The school is literally right off of the highway and extremely easy to get to. That was one of my biggest fears, it that I was going to get lost. But I feel like I have a decent sense of direction and it worked to my benefit. When I first got to my school I had a little difficulty finding a parking spot, seeing that there is some kind of facility connected to the school. So I finally found a spot gathered my things and headed in, and signed in, pretty easy no big fan fare. I met my teacher, Mrs. Smith, and we walked together up to her classroom and told me what the day’s events were and how her classroom functioned. I noticed the room was a fairly large room but it was very cluttered. A few of the tables were stacked high with books and other supplies necessary to a 3rd grade classroom. When the kids finally came, they all gave me weird looks, and as usual, they asked their teacher what I was doing there. After the morning announcements, we hopped right in my introduction. All the kids were pretty excited that a college kid was going to be helping them with math, and a few came up to ask me some questions. The 3rd grade mind is very inquisitive. After a quick little lesson my teacher gave me a few children that were having trouble with standard to written form of numbers. For example. 400+40+4=444, which is also written as four hundred forty four. So this little lesson had a little reading, and a little math. Some of the kids I worked with caught on really quickly, and had some fun with it, I gave the 4 students a little game the teacher gave me, and they played, reading the numbers and covering up the corresponding square. One student, had a very hard time with reading the numbers in written form. Actually, he was even paying attention, but once he got a little focused I walked him through a few easy problems, he had some fun with the game once he was capable of showing me that he could do it.
Helping children is so cool cuz they catch on soo quickly =D
Monday, October 19, 2009
I FINALLY FIXED IT!
Hello class,
Sorry that my blog is so delayed, me and social networking sites don’t get along very well.
So if your gonna know me here’s a few things you should really know…
1. I love music, mostly pretty unheard stuff, I was actually at a concert last Friday
2. I have 2 dogs, a standard poodle, and a French bulldog
3. I love my friends and without them I can’t function well lol
4. I am on the tennis team here at ric, and im also a co-captain of the team
So, it’s pretty basic lol, im sure if you get to know me you’ll love me =D
I FINALLY FIXED IT!
Hello class,
Sorry that my blog is so delayed, me and social networking sites don’t get along very well.
So if your gonna know me here’s a few things you should really know…
1. I love music, mostly pretty unheard stuff, I was actually at a concert last Friday
2. I have 2 dogs, a standard poodle, and a French bulldog
3. I love my friends and without them I can’t function well lol
4. I am on the tennis team here at ric, and im also a co-captain of the team
So, it’s pretty basic lol, im sure if you get to know me you’ll love me =D
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