I can't believe this is only the third week. It feels like I have been working with these kids much longer than that, it's crazy. Unfortunately I was moved from my fourth grade class to a kindergarten class. I was a little bummed out. I was really enjoying my time working with the fourth graders. I loved working with that class. I had a lot of great students I helped out with and I will miss working with them. My kindergartners are fine though. I have been working with them for only a week so I haven't really got to know them as well as my old class. But what surprised me was that they moved me to my new class because the principal said the teacher needed help and the fourth grade teacher didn't. But to be honest I was doing more work in my fourth grade class than I am doing now. Hopefully the teacher will need me soon, but in all the first week with my new class was a little dull and boring. But as I said hopefully it will soon change.
Now to my first grade class. I have been doing the same exact thing with them for every week I've worked there now, and that is just helping them read to me. But I do worry for that class a little. They are behind mentally it seems like. I am not trying to be mean but it's the truth. Even the teacher is getting frustrated with them because that can't remember the simplest instructions, for example their seating arrangement on a mat or a number given to them. Even the physical education teacher was telling me how they can't even follow an instruction like running around the basketball court, he said even the kindergartners can do this! I want to help these kids out but I'm not sure how to, it feels like I can only do so much. I've been praying for them and their teachers every day so that they will mature and in for the teachers to become a little more patient.
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