After School Program #4

This week we had the kids construct a "how to" story for us. The kids picked their own topic, their favorite thing to do, and wrote a step by step story of how to do that activity. The kids were incredibly creative with this project. We had everything from "how to do gymnastics" to "how to draw a zombie." They also did surprisingly well with forming sentences with a little help from us on spelling. Their favorite part by far was being able to pick a picture to put with their story and they got to print it out and take it home. On another note, something hit me today in a powerful way; and that was the fact that we're really forming bonds with these kids and they really do look up to us. As soon as I came to that realization, everything fell into place. I'm not just doing this after school program, teaching these kids how to utilize technology- they are teaching me as well, in their own way.