3rd Day as VIPS Volunteer 10/12/07

Today was like my first visit when I was there before the kids took their NECAPs. We did Reading, Math, and worked on Art together. The kids had to write a paragraph incorporating certain vocabulary words about Central Park, the subject they were reading about on my first visit. Some of them just wrote sentences instead of a paragraph, which was wrong. The students who presented their paragraph and did it correctly, got a smiley face on their paper. I am getting to learn some of the students’ names and faces. There does not seem to be any diversity troubles in the classroom so far, like what I thought I saw on my first day. The one white girl who sat alone last time was with the others this week. She is actually very smart and creative like the rest of her classmates. While at their desks doing their art, the kids were chatting and teaching others to speak their different languages. They were translating their Spanish into Chinese and Portuguese. This was hilarious. “Tu estas stupidas”. Maybe not. The kids seemed to be laughing and having a fun time in their groups. I did, too. Man, they drew better than I did when I was in the third grade. The teacher wants me to come in on Thursdays now, because the kids are really hyper at the end of the week, and with another person in the room. They also played music at 3:00. I had another great day.