My Fifth Visit...

This morning I had to get up extra early because I was brining my cousins to school for 8:30. Then I traveled to my elementary school and arrived 15 minutes early. This was the earliest I had ever been, so I decided to wait until I saw another volunteer to go in the school. Ten minutes later I walked in, rang the doorbell, and signed in at the office. After arriving in Mrs. Smith's room we gathered our materials and waited until 10 o'clock. This morning Mrs. Smith shared stories about her kids so the time we waited went by quickly. Before we left, Mrs. Smith reminded us to get back her room on time becasue we were going to have a meeting with the principal...we all wondered what it would be about.

When I arrived in my classroom, the students were doing a sight word activity and when the teacher saw us she hurried to get everyone to their tables. When I got to mine, I saw that Sarah was absent so it would be just me and the boys. We started off with the poem "Humpty Dumpty" and the boys liked it. Billy and Jared were both very chatty but completed all the activites correctly. Finally, we got to the sight word game and before we started I held up the words and had them recite it out loud. Billy knows his sight words very well and Jared seemed to be struggling with some but I could tell he was going slow on some of them on purpose. The actiity went well and the sentences were much better than last week. Jared and Billy were so enthusiastic. At 10:35, I said good-bye and made my way back to Mrs. Smith's room.

First, we filled out our paperwork on the poem and activity and then we completed the behaior charts out. Soon after, the principal came in. Mrs. Patrick was very nice. She came in to thank us and find out how we were doing in our classrooms. She wanted to know how the students were and how or if the teachers interactaed with us. The teacher in my room barely says hi to me and Mrs. Patrick said that she was going to be holding a meeting with the classroom teachers and to let them know they should be open and interact with us. Overall, it was a good visit and next week we get to meet the literacy coach.