First Day in VIPS program.

So today was my first day at Anthony Carnevale Elementary school. I had to be there for 9 so I showed up at quarter of just so I could get everything situated. The prinicpal wasn't there for me to introduce myself so I sat and waited. I was sitting in the main office waiting for the reading coach I would be working with and I was observing my surroundings. This one little boy came into the office crying. He said he got punched in the stomach by some boy who had been bullying him all year! I felt so bad.
After that little dilemma the reading coach Ms. Sasso came in and I met with her and she told me what I would be doing the two days I came in every week. I have 3 esl students. Two are in second grade and one is in fifth grade. The students have very different situations as to why the can't speak english. The fifth grader has never gone to school in her life! So this is a big jump for that student and today while I was working with the student and she was learning site words she did such a great job. I helped her sound out words which became easier for her and it got to the point where the student was able to sound them out on her own.
I noticed that she was confusing H and R. The student got the letter R right all the time but when it came to the letter H she would say that it made the sound the letter R did. I wrote little things like this down and after I returned the student back to the classroom I talked with the reading coach and she seemed very impressed that I noticed these things and knew to write them down because whatever I notice may be a way where we can think of something to help her.

My other two second grade students did so well. We took turns reading pages in a book and I stopped to ask questions like: "do you think that peg will be mad that Tag the puppy and Kit the cat took her wig ?"
The time went by so fast and I had a great time getting to work with these students. I even learned some new lingo. One of the second graders was telling me she was from the "R" and I had no idea what the "R" was. She turned and looked at me like "you have to be kidding me!" and she said "The dominican republic!!! where else would I be from??" Unfortuenatly I cant go back tomorrow because one of the classes has a field trip so I had to do a schedule change, so I will return on Tuesday after our class.