Week 2 Monday February 26 2007

The first thing I did when I got there was organize letters that were going to be handed out tomorrow; I organized them for the morning and afternoon class. After I was done that I marked and placed stickers on the work from the other day. Once the students arrived Mrs. MacDonald wanted a student to re do their pattern picture from last week, because they had not completed it properly, so I got to help him with it. While we were working on that the rest of the class had show and tell time, and read a book that one of the children had brought in from home. After the afternoon routine the students started working on the new project today, which was write three sentences about Clifford and color him in. most of the kids had problems with writing their sentences so I got to help them. Once they were done with that they had play time and Mrs. MacDonald introduced me to a new program they are doing with the students to help them become stronger readers for grade one. The program is, there are three books in the kit, two for two students and one for me to follow along, I can help them with the words but for the most part they have to read it themselves. I had to take two students to the library at a time to work with them. The students were eager to start and I had many volunteers to go first, finally we settled on who would go, so the two students and I made are way done to the library. Once we got there I handed them the new books and we read it together. The story was about families, so the program also involved me talking to the students about their own families. It was fun because they were so excited to talk about their sisters and brothers and of course the family pets. Today I only got through 6 kids so I have the rest of the week to finish up the rest until we get a new book to share. While I was reading with some of the kids, the rest of the class had play time, and at the end of the day they finished up with two books about Clifford, and while they were getting dressed to go home I cleaned the tables and put up the chairs, and finally Monday was over.