Volunteering in Hadley's SK Class
Today was such a blessing to me. I was able to volunteer in Hadley's class.
It made me happy to be able to be there.
It was especially great for Hadley as it was her special helper day. I couldn't believe her excitement to have me there.
I can't even remember all the things they did in the three hours we were there but I will try to list it:
Arrive, get off outdoor clothing, write your name with a Capital in front, lower case for the rest.
I was in charge of date stamping all the completed names.
Then the SK's wrote the 2, 3 and then 4 on their calendars. (The weekend dates and the current date number).
This was followed by some singing and then Hadley did the weather, date, counting of the boys and girls in attendance and showing her guessing bag.
She brought in a small LEGO puppy which she described as white, starts with P, and has a pink bow on top. It was not guessed and this made her happy.
I was impressed with the line lesson by her teacher. Hadley's teacher did a line drawing of a castle and then I sat with four kids at a time and each kid did their own drawing with castle lines, zig zags, swirls, clouds, dashes, vertical and horizontal lines as well as a few other types of lines.
After they sat with me they went and painted their castles.
I was told that this type of exercise would normally take them all week to complete in order to spend enough time with each kid to get all the lines on each picture and each picture painted. (I think it took an hour).
Still I truly understand why it would normally take all week for 16 kids without a dedicated helper.
There was a new song put up on a screen about groundhogs day. The kids kind of sang to it but they were really into the later song time that included actions for Macarena and YMCA. The Macarena had a pattern to it, AA, BB, CC, DD etc. The YMCA had marching and the letters and lots of energy being expressed.
Their was a math lesson that had the kids in groups of two or three. They had to draw 4 things that represented boys and 4 things that represented girls. Write the numbers 1,2, 3,4 and then 1,2,3 and then show that adding these equalled 7. While some had circles for their drawings, others had circles with hair and face, others had stick people and I was impressed when I later saw Hadley's. Hers had full thick people with the numbers written clearly. She forgot to write 7 as the total so her teacher asked her to go and write it. Instead of just writing 7. She wrote "We have 7". Proud mommy moment.
There was a sentence written on a large paper and each child had their chance to circle a word they knew and read it to the class.
For most of the day she worked with Adam as her partner.
I was asked to put up some artwork on the wall while there was a story-time.
Then they had an art lesson after their AT rhyming session. They drew a rat, and wrote a sentence about seeing a rat.
The afternoon went by quickly.
I asked Hadley what her favorite part of the day was and she said that she didn't have to tell me about the day because I already knew about it. :)
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I was very impressed with the day!