**Back to Basics**For my volunteer community project for the honors section of this course, I volunteered at a local elementary school, and my alma mater ;) instead of the T.O.U.C.ch project in Watsonville due to scheduling conflicts.
For the past two weeks, I volunteered to help out and observe several classrooms of elementary students in three sessions. I participated and interacted with children from kindergarten as well as 5th and 3rd grades.
I really enjoy working with kids, I as have for the past four years both volunteering and working for summer camps and various programs, so I very excited and looked forward to returning to my elementary school to work with kids. I my pleasant surprise, when I first visited for approval to volunteer, I had passed by the classroom of my kindergarten teacher, who was now teaching 5th grade. So I decided to stop by and say hello, and mentioned I was looking for volunteer work for my project to help out in the classroom, and she eagerly agreed to have me. I am now taller than her, and the school itself was much smaller than I remembered, particularly the low ceilings which gave me a sentimental sense of nostalgia as a high school senior graduating next month, returning back to where it all started for one of my final projects.
The following day, I visited the office to workout a schedule with the principal of when and where I could come for the available times. She was not in the office but as I walked out, I saw one of the other teachers whose classrooms seemed familiar was there as well, and sure enough the principal had walk right out of the same classroom She greeted me warmly as she remembered me from my days as a student there and we had set schedule of the times and days I would come. And so for the next post of my project I will describe my observations and experiences. Hope you enjoy!
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