Prompt 1

Friday was my first day of tutoring at an integrated pre-k classroom at an elementary school in Providence. I got there at 1:30 pm and the kids were having a Valentine's Day party. After about 5 minutes, the kids had to go to art and gym class until 3:00, which was supposed to be the time I was going to be there until. The teacher had me stay and help her clean up from the party while the kids were at art and gym. At 3:00, we picked up the kids from gym and I stayed until 3:30 to help her get the kids ready to leave. After all the kids left, we decided that Friday wouldn't be a good day to come because I would never be with the kids, so we chose Wednesdays as our day from now on. The kids were really cute and polite and the school was nicer than I imagined it would be. I am looking forward to actually meeting with the kids and actually tutoring next week after they get back from vacation!
The school is relatively small, but it is clean and neat, nothing that I expected. The space in the classroom is used very well, the teacher puts pictures all over the walls and there are many toys taking up space all around the room. The school makes me feel welcome and I think the kids definitely like me as well as the teacher. From the first day of observation, it seems to me that the school values each child's different learning techniques and they accompany every need for each student. Since it is such a small classroom (13 children) and there are 3 adults in the room (4 when I'm there), I think this is very easy to do in the classroom I am tutoring in.