Internship

This past week at Cameron House I started off again in class five. Each and every week I love class five more and more. I have grown so attached to all the children in the class and it breaks both mine and their hearts when I do get assigned to another classroom. Of course I love all the children and I am glad that I can help out more than one class but class five will always be my favorite! This week in class five we talked a lot about Easter we worked on RE which is Religious Education. This is very interesting to me, because apart from church or your parents beliefs Religion is not taught in schools back in the states unless it is a part of the curriculum such as a Christian or catholic school. However, in London it is a part of many school curriculums at least the majority of all private schools. I also find this interesting because some of the children at the school argue or don’t always agree with what their teacher is saying. Everyone has their own beliefs and values when it comes to religion, but if you are paying to go to a certain private school whom you know teaches religion you would think that you would have somewhat similar beliefs.  Another subject area that we have been hard at work at is drama. We have been preparing and working extremely hard to memorize our lines, and get all props and stage scenery ready. We had a real actress who has starred in many plays around London and even directs a few of her own come in and work with the kids. She worked with them on their acting and facial expressions. She even taught the children a mini Hercules dance which they absolutely loved. I really enjoyed watching her teach them. She brought a lot of energy and enthusiasm which made it that much more enjoyable for the kids as well as myself. This week we have also moved on to geometry in math and heart rates in science. The children caught on well to geometry and I worked with one little boy in particular with perimeter and area. We identified the difference between the two as the sum around the outside and the area within the object it was easy for him to understand addition was needed in order to perform the perimeter and multiplication for area. By the end of our session I feel that he had a really good grasp on the concept and was able to figure out the perimeter of objects that were very irregular. To wrap things up this week in science we learned a lot about heart rate and what a healthy rate for resting and exercising is exactly. We also correlated heart rate with age and had a blast trying to figure out our own and compare them to one another. The children really enjoyed this exercise as we were able to find a few videos on the internet to show them! Each week I am loving Cameron House more and more next I will be helping out a bit in class four so it will be interesting to see the differences between one class level.