17th Day- March 25th, 2014

On Tuesday, I had my cousin write complex sentences with his weekly words. Since he's in 3rd, I wanted him to challenge himself. He did really good! However, he just used the wrong prepositions. Next, I'm going to give him a prompt and wore 8-10 sentences, so he can learn how to write paragraphs the essays. After, I taught him how to do longer division. This time the number was  4 digits. He confused himself. I told him "it's nothing different or harder, just take one step at a time". This calmed him down and began to slowly understand it. After he got a hang of it, the questions switched over to 3 digits and forgot how to do it. I understand how he can get confused because easier things can be harder. After math, he read his book to me. His English is improving, he just stutters. How can you prevent that because I always stutter when I publically speak? 

Time logged in for session: 3 hours

Total time logged in: 22 hours 

16th Day- March 24, 2014

Yesterday, I tutored my cousin again. He still had trouble with division. He had 3 math worksheets to complete by the next day. We only got to finish two because it was getting past his bed time. I helped him with each problem, again. I didn't know I had this much patience because every 2-3 problems were repetitive. He kept getting stuck, so he guessed. I told him not to guess because he kept guessing wrong. I told him he needed to really think about it, so he did. I've learned that teaching math is more difficult that teaching spelling. On his spelling work, he went through it like a breeze. Tonight, I'm going to print out 1-9 times table so when he does his multiplication or division he can refer to the table.

Time logged in for session: 3 hours

Total time logged in: 19 hours 

15th Day- March 23, 2014

On March 23, 2014, I tutored my cousin in math. It was only one worksheet on division. I helped him with each and every problem. It was difficult because my cousin has trouble with math. I tried to teach him different methods like doing the problems he knows first, covering the ones places of the problem, and more but it's hard to explain. It's took an hour and a half to do one worksheet, but he understood it by the end. Then he had to read to me for 30 mins. He's really good at reading, especially English being his second language.

Time logged in for session: 2 hours

Total time logged in: 16 hours 

14th Day- March 18, 2014

Today, I played with all three kindergarten classes outside for 30 mins. After, I had the Tuesday group come with me to the rug, so I can read them "Green Shamrocks". The Tuesday group is slower than the Monday group, but it's okay because I get to work with the different levels. Before I read the story, I asked them what's the beginning, middle and end of a story. They said the beginning occurs on the first couple pages of the story, middle has the problem, and end is where the problem is fixed. I read them the story and stopped consecutively to ask them questions about the book to keep them engaged and because some were looking out into space. After I asked them what the 3 different sections were. The teacher and I had to help them. I couldn't stay for their worksheet because time had ran out. 

Time logged in for session: 1 hour

Total time logged in: 14 hours 

13th Day- March 17, 2014

Today is St. Patty's day! The kids were so excited to tell me the leprechaun came and took the coins. Their stories were so cute! Today, I read them a St. Patrick's story, "Green Shamrocks". The students had to pay attention to the beginning, middle, and end. After repeating the story several times, the students wrote down the beginning, middle, and end. And after drew a picture. The students had a difficult time understand in the different sections because they mainly remembered what happened at the end. I miss kingergatren and all the activies they do. :( 

Time logged in for session: 1 hour

Total time logged in: 13 hours 

12th Day- March 14, 2014

On March 14, 2014, I waited for the staudents to leave so I mess up the classroom. The children made leprechaun traps, and I got to be the leprechaun. The leprechaun got to move the traps, move the class furniture, and take the coins from the traps. It was really fun because I got to apart of their leprechaun beliefs. I remember when I was in elementary school I used to believe in Santa, the tooth fairy and the leprechaun. These fictional characters play a major role in a child's life. 

Time logged in for session: .5 hour

Total time logged in: 12 hours 

11th Day- March 7, 2014

On Friday, March 7th, I worked with the advanced group. I distributed flash cards to the students. The flash cards had a letter and a picture on each card. I had the students think of a sentence with the picture on the card and use two words from the word wall. The word wall had: I, we, us, play, go, can and more. Their sentences were impressive! We did this about 5x. After, I gave them two cards. They had to use both of the cards and atleast 1-2 words from the word wall. Now this amazed me because they used conjunction words and made their sentences interesting. For example, I gave a girl a lion and a seal and she said "I saw a lion and a seal at the zoo." A boy had two cards which were a jet and a monkey and his sentence was "do you see a monkey on the jet?" That was great because it was a question. After we did several rounds, I had the students write a sentence they shared aloud and draw a picture corresponding to the sentence. We had extra time so I taught them vowels and constants. They caught on very quick. 

Time logged in for session: 1 hour

Total time logged in: 11.5 hours 

10th day- March 4, 2014

Yesterday, I had flashcards for the students to practice their letter sounds, but first we said the alphabet and the sound it makes as a group. The flashcards had a letter on each card and a picture. I had the students say the letter, the letter sound and the name of the picture. We did about 5 rounds. The kids had fun with the flash cards but a little too much fun. They were off task because they were playing with cards or making funny sounds with the letter sounds. After 5 rounds, I pointed to objects around the classroom and asked what it was, the sound it makes, and the letter it starts with. 

Time logged in for session: 1 hour

Total time logged in: 10.5 hours 

9th Day- March 3, 2014

On March 3, 2014, I had a sentence starter that was "We can go _____." My example was "We can go to the beach." I asked the students if "we" meant for only one person or two or more people. Their answer was two or more. It's crazy how smart these kindergartners are. Anyways, I had the students think what they wanted to complete their sentence with. After they figured it out, they shared it aloud and began to write it on their paper. They wanted help on how to spell the places, but I had them sound it out, so they are familiar with letter sounds. A lot of them were close on the spelling! After they completed the sentence, they drew a picture corresponding with it. The students are very artistic. I've learned that I need to give the students more time on sounding out the word because I get impaitent and feel tempted to tell them how to spell the word. 

Time logged in for session: 1 hour

Total time logged in: 9.5 hours