What impressed us was the fact that the children had a varying ability of speaking English, yet all were forced to repeat such complicated words as thorax and abdomen. We all went into the science room where we helped the children to make color representations of the crickets using pieces of color paper and starch to glue them down. Many of the children, whose ages ranged from 4-6, were more interested in painting with the colored paper rather than gluing it, but most reacted well to instructions if those instructions were repeated more than once. Aron observed that his group of kids enjoyed drawing with the paper and were fascinated by discovering that colors can be mixed, etc. Intellectual curiosity was different in different children, but most had a good time discovering and playing with new things.
Children are curious and eager to learn.
Children sometimes learn things that are not necessarily intended by the teacher. The kids get along well with each other and are eager to help each other out when needed. We are working with a cute and sweet bunch of kids and we should have a lot of fun with this project. We did not get a chance to observe the children in a computer environment, so we scheduled the next day to come back and see them using computers.