Journal #2 3/1/19

Today was my second day at my internship in an elementary school and it went a lot smoother than the first. To begin, I had taken the bus and had gotten there a little bit before nine-thirty. Everything seemed a lot calmer walking in because the teacher only had her second graders. She had me work with the same group of students but this time she asked me to work on words that have a long vowel in the middle and have a silent "e" at the end, she gave me this work sheet for long "a" words to complete with them and after read two stories from a book that cover the same subject except the words didn't always contain a long "a". I enjoyed doing the worksheet with the kids though a little boy who we'll call "Issac" did give me a little bit of a hard time. From what I've been told by the teacher Issac has issues with staying focused on the tasks at hand so she had told me if he was giving me issues to just send him to the rug but I didn't want to make the kid hate my guts so instead I became friends with Issac and made the deal as long as he helped me out by listening, he could stay at the table with the group. It worked, a little. All four of the children did great with the worksheet and short stories. I did notice when one of their classmates would try and help them out, they would lash a little out and become frustrated. When this happened, I would just talk to them and say that the other student was just trying to help them out and not to be mean towards them. After, I had finished the worksheet and reading the two stories with them, there was still like ten minutes before their lunchtime so they just went back to their desks and worked on their Chromebooks.

I think by going and working with the group of children consistently that I'll really be able to break through more and create a special connection with them, I already feel it forming and I'm very excited.