When I'm not trying my best to look the part of the mad scientist, you may very likely find me at the Yankton Public Library. I'm working there in the late afternoons and evenings after research this summer. So far, I love it. My main purpose there is to tutor little kids in reading and math. The tutoring program just started this week. I also help arrange crafts for the kids and get in my own precious moments of reading.
The program I'm working under at the library is funded by work study. The theme at the library this summer is "Catch the Reading Bug." I work with Megan O'Grady, a friend of mine who attends Mount Marty as well. I believe I already mentioned our "worm painting" craft at the park last week. The kids loved getting messy, but I think I probably enjoyed it just as much as they did. I brought some lovely pictures back to hang on our apartment fridge!! :) I've received numerous compliments, too.
On Monday night, we had our summer reading kick-off party. We had about 100 kids come. Our feat of the evening: have them create this craft (the "flat bug") that they decorate, fill-out, and leave with us to mail to a relative in another state without letting them tear the place apart. My supervisor, Lola, explained the project to the 100 kids and sent them off to various craft tables to see how much damage they could do. Within 2 minutes, the tables and floors were a disaster!! We had these cute little foam bugs, feathers, construction paper, crayons, crepe paper, you name it - and about anything you just named probably ended up as a permanent table or clothing decoration or dropped to it's treacherous spot on the floor where it sparked questions of "how the heck did this get here?" Oh but wait! Here's the most humerous part of my evening: Within those first two minutes, as I'm flying around answering questions and trying to keep chaos from destroying us all, I witnessed one little boy choosing to use a gluestick on his friend's forehead rather than his paper. After I suggested to him that that might not be such a good idea, I walked about two steps to watch him out of the corner of my eye while picking out a friendly bug for a little girl to tack on her project. Apparantly he thought his fun-destroyer had left and was about ready to resume his mischieviousness when the to-be-glued friend whispered, "No, wait, she's still standing there." I just chuckled and walked back to the two to ask them how it was going. They hastily glued a couple of computer print-out bugs on there covers and claimed project completion. Before sending the craft-pasted kids home, we ushered them all outside for ice cream cones. There's no better summer treat. :)
Now that the programs have started, my tutoring has as well. I've tutored two little girls so far this week and I have about 10 more little kids scheduled. I get to help them with math and reading and becasue it's summer, I'm supposed to make it as fun as possible. I love the little kids and it gives me something to look forward too. I'm sure I'll have many tutoring stories to share with you later on this summer!
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