Daily Photo, February 25, 2010

Reading to Headstart
Reading to Headstart

Reading to Kids

This morning I took the opportunity to go to the local Headstart school and read a story to a group of four-year-old kids.

The service project was presented to my Rotary Club and I signed up not really knowing what to expect. They were recruiting readers for all of their classes this week.

I arrived 5 minutes early, checked in, and was taken to a nearby classroom. The book (about 15 illustrated pages long with a couple of sentences at the bottom of each page) had already been selected. The teachers gathered the kids and I read the story. The whole process took maybe 15 minutes and I was finished.

The classroom had a teacher, two teen-age volunteers, and two other adults to assist. There were about fifteen kids in the class. One of them refused to come over for the story and hid behind a bookcase. I told the story (instead of reading it) in a loud voice so he could hear. About halfway through the story he emerged and moved into his assigned place so he could hear the rest of the story.

The story itself, for an adult, was very inane. It told about a Saturday when it rained and how grumpy everyone got until the rain stopped and the sun came out. The teacher told me after I finished the story that the kids were next going to finger paint pictures of “happy” and “sad” based on the story I had just read. As I left they were setting up the finger paints for the kids, most of whom seemed quite excited to make a picture from the story.

That was definitely a good experience!

1 thought on “Daily Photo, February 25, 2010

  1. You are having the same problem as me; finding enough time to Blog very often. Facebook cuts into my time plus being a Sub and looking for families for International students. Plus being a judge for DECA. Maybe I should make a pitch to a local Rotary club.

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