Andrew Harrell Senior Project

Another great day at AEMS!  The students started off the day doing some independent reading.  I worked with a few students who were reading the same book, A Star in the Dark (I think that was the title).  Each student took turns reading a page of the book (and they were all very good!) until we had finished a chapter.  After we finished our chapter I switched gears and helped a girl who needed a little more help while reading about rocks and minerals for a research project that the class is starting in a few days.  The final girl I helped (Emma) was reading a book definitely above her grade level (a young readers version of Hidden Figures)... and she read it like it was easy for her. I was absolutely blown away by how good she was at reading.  The book felt like an 6th-8th grade level book, but she seemed to know every word and was able to pronounce everything perfectly. We switched off reading pages and she did great. I hope I can keep working with her for the next few weeks.  I ca

Today was my first day going over to AEMS to work with Mrs. Hildebrand’s 2nd grade class.  It was a ton of fun! Her class has a lot of energy that is hard for me to match, but I sure am trying my best!  Our first day together was a bit of an odd schedule. Coming off of their spring break, they had a team-building exercise in place of their social studies class, so I took that time to start setting up a lesson about measurement to teacher for some of the more advanced students in her class.  After they got back we spent time doing some phonics, specifically -er, -ur, and -ir suffixes. It reminded me just how tough our language is and how much I struggled on the same things when I was their age! Then they went off to art/music (and Mrs. Hildebrand had to leave for a little while) so I went back to school and continued researching measurement on Brainpop and Khan Academy to figure out the best activities for the 2nd graders.  I then went back to school for their math class after they