Week 4 service at Thomas Edison elementary.

Week four at my service site was basically the same. I now know a lot of the kids names and they all know mine. I am having some difficulty with a couple kids but they are being dealt with and watched on a daily basis. Seeing these kids act out like this make me feel grateful that I was able to be raised by my parents' full attention. I do believe this is why some of these kids act out in this way. 

Week 2/3 Service at Thomas Edison Elementary

This will be my blog for both week 2 and week 3 because i only went to two days on week two and did not have anything to blog about. Now that i have been going to Thomas Edison Elementary for a couple weeks now i am starting to get used to the kids and the routine of everything, or at least i was getting used to the routine until it got changed on me. On monday i was told that i would still be with the same class but i would start off my service in a different classroom while the kids had Spanish time. There are some kids at the school who love learning and love knowing things while there are others that are completely against me in every way. While i have been there i have heard and seen some things i did not expect Kindergarteners to be capable of. i would have never thought about Kindergarteners getting expelled or suspended but i have seen both in my short time at the school. overall i think most of the kids are waring up to me and i hope it gets better from here .

P.s. my hours sheet shown below has all my hours but i have yet to get it completely signed because i lost it for a little while. i will be getting it signed tomorrow and will upload a new picture of the completed Week 2/3 hour sheet

Week 1 Sevice at Thomas Edison

At the conclusion of my first week of service at Thomas Edison Elementary school I took some time to reflect about how the week went. I met a lot of new people and had a great experience with the kids I work with. The first person I met when I arrived on campus was the principal of the school. He is a very intellegent man and taugh us a few ways to help kids remember things. He assigned me to a Kindergarten  class taught by a Mrs. Molitz. The kids in the class were very rowdy but she knew how to get them in line. Mrs. Molitz has been letting me teach kids the alphabet and numbers. I have met a lot of the kids through teaching them and am even starting to learn most of their names.

While doing my service I was pretty saddened by the fact that some of these kids didn't know any numbers or letters. To me this was really weird because my mom owns a preschool and her kids learn the alphabet and most numbers  before the age of five. So yes, it was a shock at first that these kids did not know what I was instructed to teach them but I am now dedicated to getting them to learn what they need to learn