Today was my fourth day at my internship with Inspiring Minds and as I spend more time with the children that I work with I feel connected to them and the more they look at me as an adult that needs their respect. It was more of a chill day, the teacher had them mainly work on their Chromebooks but after things settled she had called the group I work with every week to the round table and gave me a whole stack of books for them to read together with me. After playing bingo last week they didn't really want to read but I kept telling them that we had to read the books because it's what the teacher had assigned me to do with them. They also had read a good number of the books but the teacher told me that it was okay to still read them because they needed to familiarize themselves with the word families and the different the letters make for the third grade. Since there was a good number of different books I tried to pick ones that we hadn't read together before and also ones that they wanted to read. Overall, they were great with reading except Issac who gave me a little more a a hard time than usual because he didn't feel like reading. I eventually got him to cooperate with me I little but I had to get serious and a little stern. I believe we read a total a five books before they had to get ready to go down to lunch.
I feel like the other children that I don't work with don't understand why I'm there or who I am and since I work with the dame four group of kids every week I'm there, I don't get an opportunity to try and connect with them like I would wish so when they're in a line to go down for lunchtime and some kids are talking when they shouldn't be and I just look at them and put my finger over my lips like they do, as a way to tell them to stop talking so the teacher doesn't hear them they don't give me the respect that they should because they don't understand.
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