I had another very successful trip to the middle school today. At the beginning of my visit, Ms. Ryan brought it to my attention that the students at the middle school don't have many opportunities to meet kids that they have anything in common with and make new friends. When I heard this, I told Ms. Ryan that we don't have that problem here at the high school very often because of our many clubs, sports, and activities. I felt kind of bad for the middle shoolers, so Ms. Ryan and I started to come up with a bunch of different clubs and activities that could possibly be beneficial for the students at the middle school, as well as something they would be interested in doing. After our brainstorming, I got the chance to make a new friend. A fifth grader, named Sam, came to Ms. Ryan's office. He isn't like my other friends, Nate and Jeff, when it comes to making conversation, but Ms. Ryan tells me that he does have trouble with his maturity. He often does things in class to annoy his classmates. He doesn't do too well with group work, so using the fact that I have a younger brother in the same grade, I gave Sam a list of different topics that I was pretty sure other fifth graders might be interested in talking about. I'm thinking for my next visit I'd like to sit in a classroom of one of my former teachers (possibly Mr. Bosco, since he was my favorite) and doing some more observing of the kids.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Whacky Wednesdays! * :) [3]
I had another very successful trip to the middle school today. At the beginning of my visit, Ms. Ryan brought it to my attention that the students at the middle school don't have many opportunities to meet kids that they have anything in common with and make new friends. When I heard this, I told Ms. Ryan that we don't have that problem here at the high school very often because of our many clubs, sports, and activities. I felt kind of bad for the middle shoolers, so Ms. Ryan and I started to come up with a bunch of different clubs and activities that could possibly be beneficial for the students at the middle school, as well as something they would be interested in doing. After our brainstorming, I got the chance to make a new friend. A fifth grader, named Sam, came to Ms. Ryan's office. He isn't like my other friends, Nate and Jeff, when it comes to making conversation, but Ms. Ryan tells me that he does have trouble with his maturity. He often does things in class to annoy his classmates. He doesn't do too well with group work, so using the fact that I have a younger brother in the same grade, I gave Sam a list of different topics that I was pretty sure other fifth graders might be interested in talking about. I'm thinking for my next visit I'd like to sit in a classroom of one of my former teachers (possibly Mr. Bosco, since he was my favorite) and doing some more observing of the kids.
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Mr. Bosco is definitely an amazing teacher. I loved math back in 7th and 8th grade because of him but, not so much since I've been in high school (lol). I think that it would be very interesting to sit in on a class just to see how the students interact with one another. I believe that once you sit in on one of the classes you will get an idea of how you use to act when you were younger.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny you mentioned that many in common don't meet each other, because a lot of people I realized I am very much alike, I didn't meet till I got to high school. I think it's because when you are younger you trying harder to fit in as to when you are in high school and already know yourself.
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