Jung- TP3

On Thursday morning, I went to tutor at the PAEC Migrant summer school program at FSU again. I actually arrived about 30 minutes late because I went to the Dunlap center to pick an application up and as you all know parking on campus is ridiculous. Once I was walking up to classroom I saw Maria, a high school volunteer, she told me that the class went on a field trip and doesn’t know when they are coming back. We decided to wait for them since they left their stuff in the classroom. Luckily they went around campus for a field trip so they returned back about half an hour later. After their snack break and recess, the students went back to studying.

We covered a lot of different activities this time since little kids cannot focus one thing for a long time; Mrs. Larida changed the activities every 20 minutes. I realized changing activities was good because I saw the younger students run out of interest rather quickly. We covered the alphabets again, but this time in lower cases. First Mrs. Larida had a big alphabet chart and had all the upper and lower case letters and we sang the alphabet song, went over each character, and when Mrs. Larida pointed at a letter we had to say what letter it was. Mrs. Larida paired each student up with a volunteer for the next activity. Volunteers let the students pick a book that they want to read and we read it with them. Since these kids don’t really have a large vocabulary, the volunteers would read it for them and have them repeat after us, we also ask them to point out certain upper or/and lower cases letters in that sentence.

When we were through with the book we asked the students to pick another book that they would like to read and we did the same activity with the other books. After reading the books, we returned back to our seats and covered pattern orders. She gave us a worksheet that had pictures in a certain order and they would have to cut out a picture and glue them in the correct order. After that activity, Mrs. Larida called the students over, one by one, and went over the worksheet they had done, and then showed them the order of the pattern again with cute little toys that definitely caught the student’s attention.

This program is going to end this coming Thursday and I am already sad to think about not being able to work with these little munchkins. But I had a great experience in getting to know them and I learned from the experience as well.