Post #7

I had my first day of service at the school!  I had an absolute blast.  It was a little frustrating some of the time, but overall, it was a good time.  The frustration came because the kids were a little antsy all day.  I anticipated that they would be, by my mom said they always had some extra energy when a guest was there.  Since I was there all day, I guess it was an exciting deal for them, so they bounced off the walls a little more than usual today!  There is one kid in particular that put up more of a fight than I’m used to.  I shouldn’t put his name on the internet!  He is just a little younger than the other kids and it shows in his personality and attention span a little bit.  I was able to work with him a lot today because he is often far behind and needs personal attention to catch up.  Teachers and assistants do their best to help catch him up, but there are a lot of children in my mom’s class who need personal help.  That makes it hard to sit him down and make him focus when he really doesn’t want to try. 

At the beginning of the day, they did their morning work.  That consisted of some math, language arts, and word problems.  Luckily, I could solve them by myself, so I proved useful when helping the kids J.  I helped out during the morning with things like that.  During the times when my mom was teaching the science lesson and they worked on some other papers, I went down to the copy room and copied a lot for my mom.  Later I copied a lot for the other teachers in my mom’s hallway!  That took up a lot of the day.  I did that before and after lunchtime.  Although it didn’t feel like I was making a huge impact during that time, I know I was doing a huge favor for those teachers.  I’ll write more soon!