#1 Visits to My School

My first few visits at my school were just basically learning about the school and how the first grade classrooms functioned. Since I was not assigned to my classroom yet I decided to wait a little while on my first blog. This past Friday I was finally assigned to my children. I worked with two different kids at two seperate times. I first worked with a boy. I went over phonetic awareness games with him and also tested him on his ability to find the sounds at the beginning of words. We played a game called slowpoke slide where he would get an image of a pig and would slide the image down the slide while saying all the sounds in pig. I told the coach later that I thought he could handle harder words. I then worked with a girl. She was in an ESL classroom and was not as advanced as the boy. I also worked with her on phonetic awareness. We played a different game. We played a game where I would show her an image and she would have to find out the first sound in the word. She would then place the image on the train which started with that sound. So the pig image would go on the p train. I thought she could also be given harder words. I found that working with these kids I have come to realize that any child can be smart as long as they are given proper attention. These were two children that the school said needed extra help but I thought they knew so much more than they were given credit for. This week I am planning on staying later to help out with a second grade class as well. I am looking forward to it. I went onto the infoworks website and looked up my school. I was expecting the ethnicity to be exactly what it was. My school is mainly Hispanic and African American students. I was a little surprised to find out my school is not very advanced at all. They seem to be far behind in a lot of areas.