Journal Entry 2

As I have been spending more time with the students, I’ve begun learning their names and some kids recognize me now. Ms. Rodriguez’s groups finished doing the quilt project last week, so on Thursday of this week, we began doing projects for Easter. I helped the first graders connect the dots on a picture of the Easter Bunny and color it in with crayons. Then, I helped the second graders decorate paper eggs with different colors and designs. After that, I helped a group of boys decorate a basket for the Easter event going on in two weeks. We took the bottom part of a gallon of milk and glued pieces of tissue paper to the sides. Some of the boys got a hold of spray adhesive and proceeded to spray each other, so not only did it smell terrible but their hands stuck together. It was a very nice day outside yesterday, so we took the second and third graders outside to play on the jungle gym. There, I saw some of the girls and boys I had worked with in previous weeks (Efrain, Shermon, Diana, Ana). They showed me how to do some flips that they learned how to do, played tag, and ran up and down the slides.
Today was my first Friday volunteering, so I did a lot of new activities with the kids. First, I helped two third grade boys do their homework in the teacher’s lounge. They had to write to their pen pals in Spanish, and I had five years of Spanish, so I was able to help them a little, but their English was almost perfect so it made it very easy to talk to them. Also, the kids got to rollerblade in the gym, so some of the other UWM students and I helped set up cones that fell down and teach some kids how to rollerblade.