Journal #1: 2/15/19

I was placed at an Elementary School through Inspiring Minds. Going into on the first day I was extremely excited but a little nervous. In my senior year of high school I had an internship with preschoolers but I haven't worked with children in the first grade. I had planned on taking the RIPTA bus there because that's my main form of transportation at the moment but my cousin had offered to give me a ride so I accepted. I thought she knew where she was going but turns out there's two schools with the name Feinstein, Alan Shawn and Lillian so we went to the wrong place and she had to drive me to the right one so I ended up being a little late for the first day. Once I got there, I went straight to the main office ans signed in and a woman had told me where the classroom was. I get to the classroom and introduce myself to the teacher and wait at the table where she was attending to students. She kept apologizing saying that the class isn't usually this crazy and she explained that another teacher is out so the students were split and put into different classes for the day. After she was done with the students, she gave me a few things to do with the group of kids that she had wanted me to work with. She gave me these spinner wheels that have word families and blend words on them, cards to work on sounding out what the letters sound like and two different books to read. When working with a few of the kids, I had found out that they are not in first grade rather second grade I believe. Time was cut a little short because the kids had their lunchtime at eleven so I had went down to the cafeteria and helped out a little until it was time to go. I'm excited to go back next Friday and work with the children some more, I can already tell I'm going to create amazing bonds with the kids while I'm volunteering there.