First 2 Days doing the SL project

Okay..let me start off by saying..wow. These kids really blew me away. They were so funny and warm and opened their class to me immediately. I got to George J West Elementary superrrr early and found my way to the office and signed in. Then I met my teacher, Mrs. Callaghan, in the classroom and we chatted about the school and the kids for a while until the kids came running in. It was SO hysterical to me that literally EVERY SINGLE GIRL commented/played with my hair and asked about my jewelry. Dr. Bogad called it! The first half hour we did an art project and I just went from table to table meeting all the kids and introducing myself (Ms. Lennon was sooo weird to hear) and helping the kids cut out paper heart cards for their father's. At 9:30 the class switched with another group of kids that are all kind of in the same reading level. Again I was bombarded with hair and jewelry questions along with the "who are you, "how often will you be here" questions. We all sat on the rug and did vocabulary words and then the kids were asked to write each word in a sentence. (I came across one snag at this time..some little boy kept putting his feet up on a girl's chair and she was getting SO mad about it so I tried to give him the "mom eyes" im so synonymous for at my job. I was surprised, however, that the eyes had ZERO power over this kid! I tried a couple times more and it was still hopeless. Finally I say "TAKE YOUR SHOES OFF HER CHAIR OR YOUR SITTING AT THE OTHER TABLE ALONE!" .... needless to say he stopped) The sentences took about an hour for all the kids to finish but in this time I really got to know the kids and I think I made a pretty strong relationship with the kids. By the time it was time to go the kids were hugging me and asking when I'd be back and if I could come more often than twice a week, which made me feel like I'd done a good job.
The second day went pretty much the same except I tended to ask kids to come in groups with me instead of me wandering from group to group. In the morning we did another art project. At 9:30 we did vocabulary and then writing sentences. Around 10:30 or so I took two kids and we did math problems. I didn't yell at any of the kids on the second day either, so that was a plus. Mrs. Callaghan also told me I had been doing a good job and she was thankful for the help, so that was a reinforcemenet for me. I told the kids when I was leaving I'd be back Thursday and as I was leaving they were switching to go to different classrooms. I got hugs all the way down the hall..it was so cute.