A Afternoon at A.C.

This Wednesday I got the opportunity to help Shannon with her math homework. She was working on multiplying by zero and one. I did not intervene much with her homework because the homework assignment was a review from the previous year and she flew through the work.

After Shannon finished her math homework, I listened to her read a Christmas story. The book was about a mouse and his experience during Christmas. In order to test her reading comprehension skills, I would stop and have her point out the different characters, the setting, and ask her questions that lead to her summarizing the mouse's experience. I also had her put herself in the mouse's shoes and think about how lonely it would be to have Christmas by herself. The book provided a educational game on the back. While we were playing, this helped Shannon see a timeline of the story plot.

I also got the opportunity to help Emely. She is a kindergartner in Scroggs. I am in a kindergarten class for my education class, so I have an idea on what they are doing in school. I know how important it is developmentally for a child to use their creativity and picture walk through the book. I had Emely try to create a story from the pictures that were in the book. She seemed to really enjoy this because we kept going back for more books!

Surprisingly, we did not have as many children this time and they all left by 5:30. So, we left early as well.