Visit 5

This Friday I went to my elementary school. I arrived at 9:00 and sat in the back of the classroom while the teacher read a book to the students. After she finished reading the book, the kids were running around and waiting until they had to switch classrooms. Once they switched my kids came in. The teacher took group two first so I worked with my group one kids first. I work with six of them and they are split up in half.
I first worked with a boy and girl, because one of the other students was not there so it was just the two of them. We played Candy Land first. They fought the whole entire game of how to play and who was cheating. Giselle was yelling the whole time, because she easily gets excited and does not know an inside voice. Treshaun was arguing with me the whole time and did not want to play. When he lost in the end, he stormed off and when he came back I tried to explain to him that some times you win games and other times you lose games. He was pouting the whole time and finally decided to start participating again when we played Go Fish. I then took the second group of kids and we played Candy Land as well. They were more well behaved then the first group.
The teacher then took Group one onto the carpet to work with them so I had my next group of kids. There are four students I work with from this group so I split them in half and take them half the time each. The first group was Adetola, because the other boy was not here. She gives me problems every week, but this week she was well behaved. We played Bingo and she was going along with playing. She is at a very low reading level and struggles a lot. She gets easily discouraged and always wants to give up. I can see some improvement in her from week to week. We play a lot of the same games each week so she is beginning to learn the words better. I then took my second group which was Angel and Natalia. Angel fell off his seat and hit is neck on the desk. The other kids started laughing at him and he began to cry for 10 minutes straight. I explained to him that everyone falls and accidents happen. I also told the other kids in the group that it was not nice to make fun of other people. After a while he calmed down and began playing. He was fighting with everyone else the whole time over the game and would not listen to what anyone was saying.
Overall this week was hectic. The kids seemed to be off the wall, but maybe it was because it was the Friday before April vacation. They were all very energized and fighting with each other a lot. As a whole, I can see some improvement in the kids. They are starting to learn the words we are studying better and are becoming quicker when reading sentences and identifying words in Bingo which is an improvement.