reading

So I’m back at school 2 days a week—now as acting headmistress…which just means I’m supposed to be doing more administrative stuff. But I still get to read with some of the kids to help the teachers out. So each day I’m there I am reading with third grade and first grade (still trying to work out how to get the right time for second grade). Third grade is individual reading and the stories are getting more complex so they take a little longer. Some are kind of fun—Extreme Animals (facts on animals) or Making Paper (we might get to try this as an art project). Others are tough to fathom…George Washington’s Childhood (story about the cherry tree), Monster Mash (simply written but hard to pronounce names as they don’t really make sense—Dolp, Bink, etc.). with first grade it is in groups and simple simple sentences with lots of repetition…and I have to keep reminding myself that repetition is the beginning of reading especially when the children won’t even look at the page while “reading”.