My Seventh Visit...

Rain, Rain, Rain....EVERYWHERE. The drive to Providence was very slow today, the torrential downpour made everyone very cautious. I arrived at the school at 930 sharp and hurried across the puddle filled parking lot and rang the doorbell, luckily it only took one ring today. I signed into the office and met with the other volunteers in Mrs. Del/Mrs. Smith's room. They told us that are classroom might be extra filled today because many teachers were absent and there were not enough substitutes. Also, they told us not to do the sight word game today, but to just review the words and make sure our students knew them. Eventually, it was time to go to the classroom.

When we walked in the room, it seemed extra chaotic and noisy. I hurried over to see Sarah, Billy, and Jared patiently waiting for me. They were so excited that I brought the poem "Humpty Dumpty." They read it aloud with me and Billy even added in his own beat to the poem by tapping his lap. I thought that was creative. Next we did some activities with the poem, like identifying rhyming words. Then it was time to do the activity, "Picture Dominoes." This activity had several dominoe shaped papers with two pictures on it, the students had to choose a dominoe say what the picture was and what its beginning sound was. Once the figured that out they would place the picture on the table matched up with another dominoe whose picture had the same sound. I felt all the students did well with this. Occasionally, Sarah would confuse the beginning and ending sounds but she was able to correct herself. Lastly, we reviewed the sight words Billy and Sarah did great with these, as soon as I held up the word they would immediately say it. Jared, however, had trouble recognizing some sight words. He would look at the word and say another sight word that he had remembered but was far off from the one I was showing him. I brought this to Mrs. Del's attention and she said she would look into it. After all that, I said good-bye and told them I would see them next week.

When we got back to Mrs. Del's/Mrs. Smith's room we filled out the paperwork and discussed our session. Then we figured out what the rest of the tutoring schedule would be and we made our way back through the rain and to our cars.