On Tuesday morning, I arrived at 9:30 and met with Thanh in the main office. After I signed in, we walked down to Mrs. Smith's room and found our group folders. I am group E so I grabbed that and then my materials for the day. Those materials included the sight word game and a new poem, I chose "The Itsy Bitsy Spider." After we gathered our materials, the other volunteers and me sat around the table and discussed our students and the similarities and differences we saw in their learning ability. Many of our students recognize their sight words, but then have difficulty putting it into a fluent sentence. Furthermore, many of our students end up using the same sentences with different sight words over and over again. At 10:00 we took the trip to our classroom.
Myself and two other volunteers made our way down to room 14, now very familiar with the school and where everything is. When we walked in our students were having snack and working on some sort of writing activity. As soon as everybody saw us, they went into a frenzy cleaning up and the students dispersed to their assigned seats. Sarah and Jared fought over who would sit next to me, so I had to get a little tough and tell them to stop fighting and sit down. First, I asked them how everyone was and if anything exciting had happened over the weekend. Jared talked about his cat and Sarah talked about going to the movies. Billy sat quietly with nothing to say. Soon after, we started the poem "The Itsy Bitsy Spider." All three students loved it and joined in with me when I started reading it. They also did the hand motions that went with the poem. After reading it, we did some of the activities on the poem. One that they all enjoyed was searching to find the letter "s" in the poem and underlining it. Then they asked to find another letter. After we did that a few times, we started with our sight words. First I held up the words one at a time and had them say it out loud as a group. They recognized the words quickly. Then I put them face down and each student picked two words. The six words total would be the ones we played the game with. This week all the students had a dice so they enjoyed that. We played the game for about 15 minutes, the students did better with their sentences which I was happy about. After the sight word game, Billy, Jared, and Sarah wanted to read the poem again. When it was time to go, I gave Sarah and Billy and feather (equal to money at the school) because they were very well behaved and helpful. Jared didn't get one because he had trouble listening.
When we got back to Mrs. Smith's room, we filled out a paperwork and behavior sheets. Some of the other volunteers had trouble with their students, I was happy that mine for the most part are very well behaved. I am excited to go back next Tuesday and see what progress the students have made.
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