May Project Week 1

Hello all, I decided to start my May project on Wednesday instead of Tuesday because I went to bed at 7am on Monday. I am doing Junior Achievement with Sandeep and we are at the Chesterfield location, right next to Top Golf. Our first day we sorted kits. When volunteers go out into classrooms, they take a kit filled with activities. The remaining activities are recycled and reused in new kits. This saves JA around $40,000 every year. So me and Sandeep sorted and organized the components of the kits into separate piles. Towards the end of the day Ami, a director, asked us to teach in a classroom of second graders on Friday. We didn't really have an option because we are volunteering for them; we agreed. Thursday was kind of similar to Wednesday. We recycled kits, but something bad happened! It appeared that I somehow got sick from working in the office Wednesday. A lot of the kits were used during the winter months. My theory is that the little kids touched all over the stuff with the grimy, dirty little hands and then I touched my face and got myself sick. I thought about only working for half of a day but Sandeep kept me motivated and I  persevered. While sorting one of the kits, the volunteer collected the journals and one of the kid's wrote that when he grows up, he wants to be a "raper." He forgot the other "p" so me and Sandeep have been laughing about it for the last few days. Friday we volunteered to be teachers for JA at Woodward Elementary School in South City. We were in charge of a second grade class and it was very hard. It was hard to get the students to pay attention to us and cooperate. The "actual" teacher of the second grade class was not there at first but then she showed up with more students. They returned from a field trip, but she only took some of the students, It was the weirdest thing we saw. Some of the kids kept touching us and we were very uncomfortable. We ended up skipping some activities and finished early. We played it off to our boss and she didn't suspect a thing. We had to teach in Troy Missouri on Monday. I will tell you about that in my next blog post.

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  1. Ms. JonesMay 9, 2019 at 6:56 AM

    Sounds like you are having a very interesting experience. Can't wait to hear how teaching in Troy went.

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