Monday May 6th

On May 6th we took the bus to the Jungle School where the kids all gathered at the top of the school and had a sort of "welcoming ceremony" that happens every Monday to start the week. After the gathering the kids returned to their classrooms. Originally, I was suppose to be with Ms. Edwards in the 5th grade but then was moved to the 1st grade. The first grades teachers name is Yeymi Hernandez Mejia. The schedule of classes during the week changes daily but on Monday the schedule was Ingles, Espanol, Espanol, Recreo, Mathematicas, C.C.SS (social studies), and C.C.N.N. (natural science). The day started with English class in which the English taught the kids the alphabet, colors, and shapes. The kids learned circle, rectangle, square, diamond, and triangle. When Ingles was over we switched right over into Spanish, dictado. The kids listened to me while I said a letter and wrote it on the board. The kids then repeated the letter that I wrote and told me that sound that the letter makes. When we were finished with that to reinforce what they had just done the kids took out their notebooks and wrote down all the letters with all the vowels.For example, the teacher would say the letter "P" and then the kids would write down pa-pe-pi-po-pu. The kids did this with all the letter in both capital letters and lower case letters. While the kids did this the teacher had to leave to go with a meeting so when the kids finished I had the kids go back over their shapes and colors in English and Spanish. When we finished the Spanish lesson it was time for recreo (recess) where the kids run around like crazy. Following the kids recess, the kids in the 1st grade head down stairs to the sink where they brush their teeth. The reason they brush their teeth at school is because some kids don't have toothbrushes at home or don't brush their teeth. After brushing their teeth the kids had math in which they had to draw a number line and fill in the numbers from 1 to 20. While the kids worked on their timelines I wrote their homework in their notebooks and they began to copy it down. At the end of class before lunch the kids played "simon says" in Spanish and the teacher read them a book. Interestingly enough, this day the kids work that they did all day was not looked at until the end of the day. For homework this day the kids were expected to write on four pages over and over again oveja, dibujo, moja, jinete. When class is dismissed all the kids run out into the yard to get lunch and then get on the bus. After school we headed home in Davids pick up truck with the girls that were going to do homework until ballet.