Day 2

Tuesday May 10, 2011

6.5  Hours

Being back at Carroll is a lot of fun! It is a really great experience to remember what I was learning when I was little. Looking back everything that I was resistant to learn and gave my teachers a hard time about really was helping me and not just there to make me miserable! As I sat in on a tutoring secession I realized just how many of the OG strategies I still use today. Such as, how I sound out words and look at prefixes and suffixes to find the base word.

Today started with morning meeting where we talked about the date (in full sentences) and how many days were left in the school year before moving on to Language class. In Language the boys learned about Personification and took turns reading sentences about it and identifying the subject noun and action verb. After looking at lots of examples of personification the boy wrote sentences about their night pictures, that they painted last week, where they personified the moon.  They then took turns talking about their paintings and reading their sentences to the class. After Language was RAVE-O where we read some more of Blueberries For Sal and introduced a new word with interesting meanings.  Next up was Tutoring, where just one student stayed in the classroom and worked one on one, on his letter sounds and spelling. All the boys came back for math and we headed down to the computer lab. In the computer lab they each worked on something different, most worked with a computer program called Symphony Math, witch is fact based. It helps the boys to remember their addition and subtraction tables. One boy worked with a program called Cross Trainer witch is based on logic problems and another did worksheet with addition and subtraction problems. After the time in the computer lab was done we headed back to the class room to do some work on the Evo Bored witch is like a SmartBored but all of the technology is in the pen instead of the bored. On the Evo Bored we worked on linking together multiplication and division, and identifying how they are similar and how they are different.  Lunch time came after Math and it was a little crazy but we made it through with just one spilled Lunchable! After Lunch was movement where we did some yoga and then went on to walk around pretending to be in different environments, such as, being a frog chased by a snake or walking on the moon. After movement was community building where the class meet with another class and the counselors an we talked about any concerns kids had about school(todays hot topic was the banning of tag on the playground) and then made friendship bracelets to sell at next weeks bake sale. The money from the bake sale will go to an organization called Cradle to Crayons that the students will be visiting that supplies families in need with basic necessities. Next, we went to science where we talked about the different types of organisms: consumer, producer and decomposers. At the end of my second day I am feeling good about the next three weeks! Today I have accomplished learning everyones name and am looking forward to getting to know each of the boys.