I hope every had a good Week 2 of Super Kids Camp. At Friends, our enrichment this week was Druid Hill Park which included the zoo, hiking trail and Parks and People campus. The zoo has been my favorite enrichment so far, and the kids had so much fun on the final day at Parks and People.
My struggle of the week has been providing one on one attention with each child in my class. I have 2 kids that take up a lot of my attention in particular.
I have one student who has been very negative and critical of the camp so far. He says that he doesn't like being nice, and he doesn't like coming to camp. Even his mother after dropping him off one day said to me "He really hates coming here"This was very discouraging and disappointing at first. But I made it my mission to make this experience as fun as possible for him. I really want him to enjoy camp so I always try to keep him positive and in good spirits. As the week went along, he began to open up to me and has shared things that he likes such as bugs, soccer, and basketball. This was good so that I can relate things that he likes to enrichment, lessons etc. (which helped a lot) He even said the hike on Thursday was his best day so far. I am so excited to see him warm up to camp even more.
After having a breakthrough with this student, I realized I have 13 more I need to give that attention to as well. Hopefully the next 4 weeks I will be able to build relationships with more if not all of my students.
Have any of you had a similar struggle? Have a good week!
Sarah
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