February 28, 2013

Today when I got to Los Cerritos, I got my usual "HI MISS SAMMIE!" or "GOODMORNING MISS SAMMIE!" and I love when they do that because it just puts a smile on my face and the fact that they're always smiling makes me so happy. When I got there they were starting to do their board math. Sometimes when they do their board math, I realized that when some are working with Ms. Wood, the others aren't paying attention. They're either playing around or they're raising their hand and talking to Ms. Wood saying how they haven't gotten picked to up to the board yet. When we got split up into groups, Ms. Wood had me start doing patterning wit the kids because she wanted them to start doing patterns. We did patterns with colors today with the kids.I laid out a sheet of paper for them and I had them pick to different colors and started coloring to make a pattern. Most of the time, the kids would start to color and then start coloring like the whole paper so I had to give them a new paper and show them which way to make the pattern. It got a little frustrating with the kids but I managed to pull through and tell myself that I could do it because I know I can. I just needed to give a little more patience with what they were doing because sometimes after I told and showed them what to do, they would still not really get it but it was okay because I just let it go and continued on with what they were supposed to do. All in all, today was a little frustrating.