A.S.E.S. Last day

It was kinda of sad for this to be my last day volunteering. We went about the day regulary. The kids did their homework, had snack, played outside, and then went to mad science. After they came inside they showed me the huge poster they made for me. It was really cute. At the end of the day we did a drawing contest and Angelica drew a picture of me, and actually spelled my name right this time. I want to come bcak to volunteer again.

A.S.E.S.

Homework help was a little hard today because David and Anthony got into a little argument so while I was trying to help Edwin they started yelling at each other. So my mentor had to take care of them while I tried to settle down the other kids because they all wanted to take sides. After that the day was better they had a really interesting science lab. Which is called "Mad Science" Kytana, a kindergartener corrected me. They were working with dry ice, and they also got to make their own bouncy balls.

GW Elementary

Today was a very interesting day. I brought my camera so i could take some pictures for my presentation and when the kids saw they all wanted me to take their picture. Daniel, Janessa, and Marian wanted me to film a dance they made up. After when we worked on homework it seemed as if Susan was doing better with sounding things out. She spelled less words wrong. They went to Tahitian and because I had the camera when they did the circle almost everyone wanted to do it in front of the camera.

George Washington

Today was really good. I felt really confident handling the kids. My mentor even complimented me the kids. She told me that I seemed more confident in myself and that i seemed to be really get close with the kids. I finally learned all of their names. When Susan, a kindergartener, who usually asks me to spell things for her, asked me, I used the technique my mentor told me to do. I helped her sound it out! I could tell she was a little disappointed that I didn’t just do it for her but throughout the day when we did another spelling exercise she didn’t ask me as much.

GW elementary

Today when I met early with my mentor, she told me that one of the student’s mothers had passed away. She told me that some of the children might already know and others might start to ask why the child was gone. She informed that we would wait to address the whole class about the situation to say anything. After homework help we sat the kids down and told them what the situation was and that we were going to create a card for her. Today was pretty sad but we still carried on with tutoring and the science lab.

A.S.E.S.

My mentor told me that from now until I completed my hours that I would take over the class and she would just step in when I really needed help. Today after homework help we did some more work on they play. They have most of the skit finished. Their skit is based on the television show GLEE. They wanted to choose their own parts and I was going to let them but my mentor told me that I should assign the parts just so everyone could be apart of it, and not left out. So like she said I made sure I gave certain parts to some of the shyest kids.

GW elementary

I’m on spring break this week so I can meet up earlier with my mentor and get more hours. Today when we met up she asked me to bring my thesis statement to her. She said that my thesis statement was good but it needed to be more debatable. She said that no on would argue against me that after school programs are great so I needed to really focus on the controversial part about the budget. She said I needed to make the reader understand why I believe they should receive more funding in this time of economic instability and recession. After that we went to A.S.E.S.