This week at PAEC was quite different from the last. I was expecting chaos, noise, children running in every direction and flustered volunteers. When I arrived at the class there were only four children in the class quietly sitting on the floor watching Sesame Street. Confused, I hesitantly asked the teacher where the rest of the children were. Camp had ended for the most of them, she said, and only five children would be in the class this week.
So after the Sesame Street YouTube video ended (crazy how things change and stay the same) I was assigned to help a girl with her workbook activities. I was impressed. She was a smart little cookie. I felt obsolete. She flew through the activities, and I helped with minor corrections here and there. Overall she was doing great and it made me really happy.
I also realized I was becoming better at keeping the students on task. I was quite the push over the previous week, and wondered how these other volunteers that looked around my age could keep so many children in line, trained teacher voice and all. Education majors, it must be in the water. I tried to watch, and duplicate. (I gave up on the singing of books as a form of reading though, I just can't bring myself to do it, sorry kiddies). Overall this day when really great, even though I was sad most of the kids I had helped from the previous week were gone.
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