On Thursday I went to the Learning Center in Abbey Court. When we arrived at the center there was only three students on the computers, but by the end we had children learning everywhere!
While I was there I got the opportunity to help Kaitlin on her math homework. She was having trouble with rounding to the tens place. The teacher had developed a creative approach to teach the class how to round. Kaitlin showed me how she was supposed to draw a hill with a car on the top. If the number in the ones column was less than 5, the car fell to 0. If the number in the ones column was above 5, then the car fell to the 10. From this point, I showed how the diagram was suppose to help her determine if the tens column number stayed the same or was suppose to go up a number. It was so fulfilling to see the “light bulb” go off and Kaitlin be able to complete the rest of her homework flawlessly. Once Kaitlin finished her math homework, we read 15 pages in a Magician book. During this time she explained to me that a child in her classroom knows how to do magic tricks and she really wanted to learn how to do magic tricks! Once she was done, Kaitlin excitedly logged onto the computer and got to do fun math activities online.
I also got the opportunity to help two other children on their science homework. The children were supposed to read a chapter and fill in blanks on a worksheet. They were having trouble with the concept of kinetic and potential energy, so I demonstrated what the terms meant using a water bottle and a magic marker.
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