Day 1

Monday, May 9, 2011

6.5 Hours

My first day at Carroll was to say the least hectic! Seven third grade boys sure are a lot of work, the next three weeks will be very busy. To start the day I got up nice and early to catch a ride to Carroll with our family friend Valerie a first year fourth grade teacher. Once we got to school Valerie showed me around and then I went and met my project sponsor Laurel Fitzpatrick, who is very nice! The boys came in from morning recess at 8:20 and I got to meet them all, they are a very sweet bunch but can be a bit distracted at times. After we had our little morning meeting the speech pathologist came in and played a version of go fish with the boys where they had to describe wild and wacky pictures on the cards. The purpose of this game is to work on conversation skills and making complete sentences. After that it was time for RAVE-O a reading program that helped the boys with fluency and word recognition, the third graders all get shuffled for RAVE-O so there was just one boy from the original group and two others from different classes.  Then was snack time and a short recess,  then we had Tutoring. All the boys headed their separate ways and just one stayed in class to work with Mrs. Fitzpatrick. Watching tutoring brought me back to my days at Carroll, with word lists and OG cards it was just like being back in fourth grade and my first year at Carroll. Then it was time for math, today we worked on dividing different objects first on the SmartBorde and then with real objects such as blocks and books. After math the boys ate lunch and headed out for another recess. As lunch came to an end the boys regrouped and we went down to Gym, the boys are joined by Mr. Shepard (another Carroll/Proctor alumni) in the afternoon to help keep specials calm and fight free. In gym we played Mat Ball, a personal favorite from my Carroll days. It was interesting to see the boys in a nonacademic setting. It was, at times, a struggle to keep the game fair and every one happy. Now the boys are off at science and then they will come back for History class where we will work on reading some articles from Time for Kids and then they head to cabs and I head home for the day!