Third Day of Community Service - 2 1/2 Hours

Sorry I didn't post earlier... I had no internet connection all weekend!

On Friday, I went to the school for my third day of community service... Now I have a total of 7 1/2 hours completed. It started off a little hectic, afterall it was Friday. The teacher gave me a stack of Social Studies workbooks that needed to be graded. Each student was assigned three pages of Social Studies workbook pages because their previous test grades were not too great. It was crazy the range of students who did excellent, who did poorly, or who didn't even bother to do it at all!

After going through the workbooks and recording all the grades, I had to grade another Social Studies test the students had previously. Once again, grades varied. As I was doing the grading, students were doing a picture prompt activity, preparing for the NJ ASK tests. Before I knew it, I had already been in the classroom an hour.

The teacher had me help with the spelling test. She gave the word, I repeated it for those who did not catch it or who weren't paying attention. During the test, there was a lot going on. Teachers were walking in and out of the room and the host teacher I was working with was trying to get her computer to work to add the grades. It was pure choas. Another teacher asked to have more copies of the Language Arts test that was supposed to be given next week. Printers didn't work and copy machines were jammed and of course, we were short the Language Arts tests. I had to count two large piles of tests and help organize them.

The last task for me to complete for the day. I had to take down the old "star papers" off of the bulletin boards and replace them with the student's more recent papers. This exercise showed me and the teacher who did and who did not hand in work. Those of the students who did not hand in the paper, obviously had no paper hanging up next to their picture on the bulletin board.

Before we knew it, it was 2:50 and I was watching the students at their lockers while the teacher finished up the Social Studies lesson. By 2:55 everyone was dismissed and looked forward to their weekend.

This Wednesday will complete my approximate 10 hours of community service. I'll be back later on this week to fill everyone in on my final experience. Tonight, I plan to attend a Board of Educaiton meeting in my town as well. Further posts are expected.