Behavior

      One of the biggest part of kindergarten is the children's behavior. How they behave during class and how they work and communicate with not only their classmates but their teacher too, says a lot about how the child is and how he or she works. That's why it's always good to teach them at a young age how they're suppose to behave in a classroom. In the kindergarten class I volunteer at, they have this poster.Those are the rules they are suppose to follow when they're all sitting down on the rug while Ms. Dahline is teaching something new. This way is easier to have a certain order in the class.

     Something else that works in a kindergarten class is a chart that keeps track of how well the child behaves. Everyday right before class ends, the teacher can go through each student and say whether they child was good or bad. Its a way to reward the kids that did behave and a way to encourage the kids that didn't.

August Additional blog

On my first day of mentorship, I went to San Jose Elementary School to volunteer with kindergarten kids. The teacher Ms. Dahline introduced me as Ms. Diaz and told the kids I would be there to help them if they need. That day the kids were working on tracing the letter M. They had a worksheet similar to this one.

The kids were taught to "go up the mountain, down the mountain, up the mountain and down the mountain". I went around and helped some of them out because they had trouble when it came to writing their own letter M instead of tracing it. They also had to match up pictures that started with the letter M. 

That day I learned that a lot of kids are different when it comes to asking for help because some asked for help right away and some just stayed there staring at their paper until I came up to them and asked if they needed help.