March 12, 2013

Today when I got to Los Cerritos, I got my usual "HI MISS SAMMIE!" I always look forward to that because I know if I'm having a bad morning, these cute little kids will always manage to make me smile. When I got there, they were doing board math so I just hung out and waited until we split up into groups. Today, Ms. Wood had me do addition with the kids which wasn't that bad. The kids were just a little antsy today so it was kind of hard to keep their attention but it's okay, I managed to keep calm and just talk to the kids to get their attention. Some of the kids were really good about everything and was able to finish the math problem that were given to them pretty fast and earned stickers. For the other kids messing around, they realize that they didn't get stickers and asked for them but I told them that they would only get their stickers if they finished their math. So they worked quickly on their math problems. Some of them weren't able to finish on time so they weren't able to get a sticker which caused them to be disappointed but I told them that they were going to be able to work on it later so they can get a sticker later and that the next time I came and that if they worked hard, that they would be able to get more stickers and they got happy again. I love when I'm able to work with the kids in a way where they won't be disappointed because of the way I've reasoned with them.

March 7, 2013

Today when I got to Los Cerritos, I was greeted by the usual, "HI MISS SAMMIE!" while they were doing their board math. It's so cute when I see them doing their board math and when they go up to the board when Ms. Wood calls on them and they get it right because they get so excited over it. When we split up into groups, they kids were so excited because I told them that we were going to do bingo! The kids love playing bingo, no matter what type of bingo they play, as long as it's bingo they get so excited about it. It was a fun day with the kids because they did an activity that they loved doing so it went by pretty smoothly today. There weren't any complications with the kids and what we did. Just had a fun time playing bingo. It was so cute when they would shout out "BINGO" when they won because they got so excited. Because I knew the kids loved playing bingo, we played it as many times until it was time to switch groups. The kids were so good about everything today. I loved it.

March 5, 2013

Today when I got to Los Cerritos, the kids were so jumpy! Most of them ran up to me to say "HI MISS SAMMIE!" and gave me a hug. They just started board math, so I told them that they had to go back and sit down because Ms. Wood was waiting for them to continue their board math before we split up into groups. After board math, we split up into groups and I did color recognition with the kids. What I did was pull up some colors from a deck and had them guess what color it was and they would have to say it. Some of the colors, the kids didn't know so I had to help them but I had no problem helping them, just as long as they got the color afterwards. There wasn't many troubles today with the kids and what we were doing. The kids were really good today which made me really happy because there weren't any kids that were messing around too much or acting up because sometimes it would happen, but it didn't happen today and I'm glad it didn't because the kids were so good with the activity that was given for us to do.