Finally, a class we can work with!

Today Alex and I visited our third and final classroom! The kids are so enthusiastic and the teacher really seems to appreciate our time there:)  She stayed in the room with us and really helped with the discipline, they can get a little rowdy! but I really love them. the second grade is a really good fit for us, we can both see a greater connection with these younger kids. i cant wait till next week! we had a simple lesson plan just to get to know the kids but next time it will coincide with the lesson the teacher is giving. Also the kids are so much more attentive than the fourth graders. they asked me if they could o to the bathroom and it made me feel so powerful!
I can see the that some of the kids are going to be more of a problem than others right away. one girls, Tyjai, (wow they all have such mouthful names! Its going to be hard to remember) wanted us to draw everything for her and said she didn't know how to do it. i tried to get her to practice with me but alex had already done alot for her so my plan it was already ruined. But i used the last speakers advice and told her i didn't know how to draw either! haha she was so cute. and they all made superhero masks and were so enthusiastic to make more! we have to make sure we have the exact amount of supplies next time because they wanted to make so many! and it ended up not being fair to everyone and i felt so bad. they all even wanted the ones i made as examples! at the end we did a reflection, liek the speaker suggested, and they all said theyloved it except for that fact that the glue was messy. what a success!

Promising future

I think we finaly have an enthusiatic class to teach! Anges switched us again to  new class, this time the 2nd grade. Today we came up with a lesson plan, even thougb we havent met the class yet. Since Halloween is Sunday, we are goign to have the class make masks. Cutting out all the templates took forever! but its going to be worth it i think. Later I made some examples and Alex wrote up the lesson plan.

I think I'm finally getting into the groove here! I've got half of my required hours, and considering its the middle of the semester and we havent been lesson planning until now, I think thats pretty good! maybe next semester i'll shoot for a higher tier. I've been to all the professional development workshops so far, ,but i want to go to more of the socials! i jusdt have so much homework that needs to be done first and i'm known to procrastinate! the last pro development workshop was SO much more informative and engaging that the last. I got a few really helpful tips on controling a classroom and teaching small children. i can't wait to put it to good use!

Switching rooms?

SO confused. We got switched out of Mrs. K's room! Anges says she didnt feel able to work with us. She emailed us apologizing because she didn't realize that we were there to teach art? I wonder why she didnt understand why we were there is she signed up to have CAP interns in her class.

Our new room with Mrs. M doesn't seem promising either. I don't think she wants us there. I just feel like she thinks she's doing us a favor by letting us be there. She also did'nt understand what our organization is about and why we were there. I hoped that the class and the teachers would be more excited for us to be in the room.

We also noticed that the class switches from english to math right int he middle of our scheduled time and we had to move it to an earlier time. GREAT just what i want to do! wake up another day at 7am!

the classroom

My first classroom experience! the kids are so cute! I just wish we were able to work with them. I think Mrs. Kl is just going to use us as her personal helpers around the room. We were stuck making posters for her star chart while the kids learned math! She left for lunch without saying anything to us and we ended up just leaving her a note asking if we should have a lesson for next week or not. Thankfully we got 2 hours done though! We put alot of work into those posters because we were only supposed to be there for an hour! hahh

my first CAP experience

Soooo excited to start CAP! I was a little nervouse afteri learned that i needed to get fingerprinted, but it wasn't as big of a deal as i thought!:) I was also surprised at the fact that only 4 other people went on the bus to get fingerprinted. I wonder how many students are actually involved in CAP?

The first training session was not what I expected at all. I thought we would learn how to make lesson plans, which was sortof overlooked at the alternative orientation, but unfortunately we were stuck on race relations, which i dont think is the most crucial aspect of working with children. Being from a diverse place, I don't se race as a problem, but I can see how some people might. I did like, however, learning the rain storm game to calm down a class. I wish we learned more though and were armed with more information about the program. It concerns me a little that both my partner and myself have never done CAP before and more information would have really helped. I was under the impression that we would be set up with another CAP member who has experience.