Change for Kids

After our talk with Mike Quiznio, things have changed at P.S 160. I have been assigned a new first grade class and specific students to work with. My first day back was very productive. I was able to work an hour each with two children. The first child had trouble sounding out letters so I tried to work with her on that. Then we made flash cards containing the difficult words that we had found in a book we had just read. With the flashcards, I asked her to try and memorize the different words. When the hour was up, she was able to identify and read 95% of the words.

The other child, I was assigned to was able to read and identify the words on the flashcards after 30 minutes, so I decided to try something different with her. I asked her to make a chart and write a list of the different animals she knew that could fly, or swim or jump. This was one of the little activities in the book. Although, she was able to tell me the different animals that could do each of these things, she found it difficult spelling the names of the animals. We worked on this for the remaining of the half hour. For homework, I told each child to study the flashcards each night, so that on Friday when I come back, they should be able to read the cards easily.