Journal #2: Elementary School Visit

On my second visit to the school of West, I was greatly enthused about returning. It was again, raining, so I made my way quickly into the building where the children were just returning from a bathroom break and snack. As I set up my lesson plans at the small corner table, I heard several; "Hi Miss. Sam"'s, from kids walking around the class.

Several minutes later, I had the first set of three children up at the table with me. They were eager to begin the games for the day, both of which were based on consonance, vowel, consonance words. One game we played was to create as many sight words using CVC, and the other was to roll dice and make words. The game in which to roll dice, was the more successful of the two games. Once both of those were completed, there was still time left so we had reading time in which the children read to me from reading books on their desks.

The same pattern was followed from the second group of kids who finished early as well. We read for about fifteen minutes and then it came time for me to leave. By the time I left, I had been convinced that for each sight word the kids made up they got either Hannah Montana, Jonas Brothers, or iCarly stickers. Guess I'll be making a trip to the dollar store some time soon...