Fourth Visit

Today I went on my fourth visit to my school. I went to the main office and signed in the VIPs sheet. I then went to my class and waited for the kids to switch rooms. Once my kids came in I worked with three for the first session and three for the second session. With my first three kids we played Bingo first which the kids love. They were all acting off the walls today. They kept yelling and screaming and grabbing each other cards. Some of them kept cheating and had difficulty focusing. We got through one game of this and I decided to play Candy Land next, because the kids like that more. Again, they were all fighting over who got to go first and who got to be which color. They just couldn’t seem to get along today. They all did well reading their words except for one girl. She can barely read the word he and she is in the second grade. She is very far behind, but can be difficult to work with. She doesn’t get along with the other students and tends to make fun of them.
The second group of students I took were a lot more well behaved. The three of them actually got a long and worked together to help each other. We first played Bingo and after two games of that we played Go Fish instead with their reading words. The kids did very well on the story they are currently learning. They knew all the words. One of the kids only whispers, if that. He will not speak out loud and today he was especially quiet. He wouldn’t even whisper to anyone today. He seemed very nervous when it came to picking a person to ask if they had a card in Go Fish. I think he was so nervous, because it is more difficult to play if you do not speak.
Overall, it was a somewhat stressful day. The kids were acting up and arguing a lot which became frustrating. When trying to play the games, no one wanted to cooperate so it became difficult to play games with them.