My Lesson

I had the rare priveledge of being able to read the students an Arthur book on making promises, being a good sibling, and compromise.  The book involved siblings fighting over the television and coming to a compromise which involved Arthur making a promise to D.W. and having to follow through despite his best efforts of trying to get out of it.  However the ending showed that in keeping the promise there was an even greater reward to be had.  This book had the students attention throughout the entire reading as many knew who Arthur was and the story peaked their interests.  I was very excited to be able to interact with them and to provide them with knowledge that I knew was not only important for school, but for life.

A.J.

Throughout this project I was working with a young man who will be called A.J..  He was very interested in being a dinosaur throughout the entire time we were there.  While it was all fun at times he did get into some trouble on the last day.  He was very interested in science and enjoyed looking at books.  Some of his favorites were the Sesame Street and Arthur books.  He had no idea what he wanted to be saying he would be a monster when he grew up.  However his curiosity in the Science portions of the class left me with little concern as I am certain his knowledge would grow as he continued throughout school.

S-L Project Hours

Throughout this project I have dedicated many hours to helping in the classroom of the pre-schoolers.  It was a privilege to interact with these young students over the past few weeks.  They showed me how every little thing about my appearnce from my 'rockstar' jacket to the "why is there hair on your face" that we are all very unique.  Their eagerness to learn was great inspiration, but like all students I know that by the time those cute kids were teenagers they would undoubtably hate school as much as any other student that I have worked with.  However it will be the basic skills they are taught at the ywca that will be with them forever.