My first visit to the WB

Well today was the day that I went to my school and practiced what I'm going to do for pretty much the rest of my life. Everything went good, except for me going to the wrong school at first (oops) but that was easily fixed by just going next door. I was a little nervous at first not really knowing what to expect but those feelings settled quickly once I got started. Ms. C, the teacher, was warm and welcoming and sent me to work right away. I was somewhat taken aback sicne this was my first time going and I wasn't sure exactly what to do, but again once I began it was fun. I started off by working with one girl, Mary, and helping her with her morning math problems. She was very good at math but had a little trouble with the word problems. At first she tried to get me to just give her the answers and at first that was what I was doing, but then I realized that I was there to help her solve the problems not do them for her. So after the first couple of problems I made her either sound out the words she couldn't get or read the problem with her. It was pretty much smooth sailing after that. Later Ms. C had the children sit on the carpet and surround her so they could work on their story outlines. I wasn't really sure what this activity was at first but then I caught on. The kids had to write their own short stories and the focus of these stroires were to make them use descriptive words and more than just basic words. Some of the stories were quite funny, the girl I worked with this time, Sara, was writing a story about having a house on the sun made of ice cream, cookies and muffins. She could eat the house as much as she wanted to and it would all just magically reappear the next day. After this I was called down to have a breif meeting with the principle and he jus tried to make sure I comfortable. When I returned to the classroom we were working on word walls. The kids had to take certian "s" words and seperate them into: spr, scr, str and oddball catagories, then put the words in alpabetical order. Before I knew it my two hours were up and it was time to go. I was ambushed with a wave of kids looking for high-fives and asking when I would be back. I am really looking forward to my return trip in two weeks.