Tuesday, April 27, 2010

visit 2

Visit Number 2

Today was my second visit to the Sunnyvale Trailer Park. After arriving to the school five minutes early I stopped in to say good morning to Mr. Lahey and Randy then grabbed my folder and proceeded down the hall to my trailer. After talking with Barb for a few minutes it was time to sit down and meet my second group of kids before working with the first group again. This group was three boys and one girl, who we will call Trevor, Cory, Bubbles, and Trinity. We spent the first few minutes going over the same questions as the previous group. Trevor told us all he enjoyed math, didn’t like social studies, was good at gym class, and wanted to work on his pronunciation. Next was Trinity who also liked math, didn’t like waking up early, was good at science, and wanted to work on sight words. Next was Cory who told us he liked social studies, didn’t like math, was good at English, and wanted to work on vowels and consonants. Finally we got to Bubbles who told is he loved social studies and science, was totally against math, was good at helping others with their work, and wanted to work on his reading skills. After getting to know them a little and learning about their interest, we were finally ready to get to work. We started by working on an activity that works on fluency. We had a bunch of cards with different words the kids were expected to know by sight and we spent a good twenty minutes flipping through the cards until we were able to make it through without any mistakes. We then moved on to an activity involving blends of letters in words the kids should also know without having to think to hard about what they are. We worked on the blends between t and h. The words we went over were ones the kids used constantly through every day including words like them, they, these, their, and there. The kids seemed to focus well and seemed to really appreciate the extra help I was giving them. After forty five minutes of good solid work it was time to say goodbye work with the first group again. Sitting down with Ricky, Julian, Sara and Lucy we quickly got back into the activity we left off on. We were getting back into the blends activity, the same I had just finished going over with the second group. We were able to sit down and get through all the same blends words as the other group and after twenty minutes were ready to move on. We went on to the other activity I had just done with the second group. We worked on the blends and were able to fly through with almost no problems at all. After forty five minutes we were finished up and the kids were sad to see me leave. All in all my second visit was a successful day.

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