Monday, March 1, 2010

Promt 2

Today was my third visit and I've seen a few different faces. Before I noticed that all of the students where either black, hispanic, or asian. The majority being black. Today I noticed a girl who was absent the last time I visited, she is white. The classroom teacher and myself as well as this girl were the only white females, in the classroom.
With 5 students I played Candy land with them today, the only difference was they have to use site words before they can go. They all did a really good job, though some children had a difficult time prenouncing the words. But when soemone cannot get a word we all work together to help the students whose turn it is, prenounce the word properly.
The next group which contained 5 girls that needed help on some of their site words as well. We played memory and go fish with flash cards that I had made for them, to help learn site words. They all enjoyed the game and seemed really interested to sound out each word and find its match in order to win. Though a few times the girls got distracted with my hair, and wanted to play with my hair rather than the game, but overall it went well and they were egar to win.
All the students speak fluent english, though some do speak other languages like spanish at home. One boy was trying to get another boy's attention by saying "mirar, mirar!" which means look, look! The other boy understood him, which led me to believe that their are quite a few children in this classroom that speak another language at home.
Also some of the students already are speaking "slang". Today a girl said to me that she was just ""playin'", instead of saying joking. I found this to be interesting because I didnt think that children could pick up these "slang" words so early. But they must be used to it because thats how their parents, siblings, or just people in their enviornment speak.
After some research I found out that in the elementary school I tutor at 12% of the students are white, 17% are black/African American, 39% are hispanic/latino, 1% are native hawiian, and 14% are multi-response. 52% are female and 48% are male students.

1 comment:

  1. Great reporting and interesting information on both your time there and how it is confirmed by the data you researched! be sure to read and edit for spelling and typos...

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