Coming Back
- I got so many hugs when I came in today. I came in at 2:30PM because I had to present my IMPACT project today and then I had to meet with my IUS teachers. I think that the children thought that I wasn't going to be back for a while.
- The children kept bringing up the unicorn that we read about yesterday. They wanted to look at the pictures again.
- Because we had 15 aftercare children, I got to lead the class on my own.
Explaining Consequences
- The children were too loud during snack time so I reminded them to be quieter. Eventually, I told everyone to go on level 0 and not to talk. I assigned sentences to those who talked. One of the boys (who had listened when I told everyone not to talk for 2 minutes) asked why some many people had had to write sentences in the past two days. I explained to him about how I had tried to be nice and give warnings, but that didn't work. So, then I had everyone go to level 0 and some people still didn't listen. So, I had to assign sentences to the people who did not listen because they showed me that they would not listen any other way. The boy looked at me and considered what I had said before replying with, "Oh, okay," then he smiled. This surprised me because this boy is usually sassy towards adults, but once I explained to him that I tried to be nice but I had to follow the actions of the children, he understood. I hope that more conversations like this will help him to behave for me all of the time.
Artic Freeze
- After snack time, I had the children vote for which game they would like to play. They chose artic freeze, which they had invented yesterday. My boss came in during the middle of the game and the children were moving in strange ways as they acted like nearly-frozen people, penguins, and polar bears. When she asked me what they were doing, I explained that they had made up the game yesterday and that my favorite rule is that if you talk, you're out. She looked a little confused but she went back to her office. I liked this game, when a child got out, they were only out until the next time that a polar bear or teacher said "lights out." Although, I had to call 3-5 children out for talking each round, the game was fairly quiet and the children were not running. Everyone liked the game. The next challenge is getting the people to not want to be caught by the polar bears and to get the polar bears to want to eat the people. I am so proud of my children for taking the initiative to create and monitor their own game. I love student creativity.
Couch Time
- I love that the children wanted to have couch time again. It is like having another morning meeting at the end of the day. I allowed the children to take off their shoes again. We told knock knock jokes, sung songs, and I taught them some words in Spanish. I began by teaching them the words for red, blue, and yellow. The children began to ask me how to say certain words in Spanish. If I worked there every day, I would love to continue this tradition, but I would not always let them take off their shoes.
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