Service Learning Novemeber 9

Friday in class we worked on math and reading. I worked with a girl who was having a really bad day because as she told me her dad and mom got into another big fight the night before and didn't get much sleep. I tried to tell her that things would work out and she said she just didn't think so anymore. It was so heartbreaking to have a second grader sound so dejected and sad. As I work with these kids I'm learning that teaching a lesson plan is going to be the least of my problems somedays and I going to have to learn how to connect to kids that getting a math problem wrong is the last thing their going to worry about. I am grateful for this opportunity to gain the experience of encountering these problems now and I am grateful that Mrs. Eby is there to help show me how to deal with them. Teaching is defiently a proffesion that takes a lot of different approaches to be a good teacher. And you have to be able to connect with twenty some different emotions and different backgrounds that all have an effect on each students day.