Interesting Day: Sneezy The Snowman By Maureen Wright

Introduction: My kindergarten learners are very diverse. It is comprised of twenty-one 5 and 6 year old students. There are 11 boys and 10 girls. In my class, there are children with ADHD, severe learning disabilities, multiple ESL learners, Cerebral Palsy, Severe Behavior, and other assortment of needs.

Annie Dillard, in “A Christmas Story,” expresses the difference between seeing and understanding, and simply looking without understanding. She begins the story by describing an extravagant banquet. This banquet took place in a hall filled with chandeliers, decorated tables, and centerpieces. Young adults and adolescents were present, while musicians entertained the guests.

This year I will be helping out at the primary again, and I will also volunteer to be a translator for the parents. The only difference being that I will actually be more one-to-one with a 2nd grader, helping learn her English. I was overjoyed when I was offered this opportunity, I couldn’t wait to get started. I also couldn’t wait to get started with a new project I started at school. The step forward that I took was that I started my own program at my school, the unique factor being that it’s a spanish based after school study table. The goal of the program is to help out the students who are having trouble in class because they don’t know as much English.

“No matter who we are, no matter how successful, no matter what our situation, compassion is something we need to receive and give,” author Catherine Pulsifer said. Patricia McKissack wanted to show this theme in her short story, “The Woman in the Snow” by using her character, a black mother named Eula Mae Daniels. In the beginning of the story, a racist bus driver spots her struggling through the snow, holding her sick baby and begging him to give her a ride, even offering him her wedding ring. He refuses and drives off without her because she does not have money to pay for the ride. As the story progresses, she is found dead the next morning and begins to haunt the route, killing the bus driver in a crash, continuing to haunt the route until all drivers refuse to take it. This theme begins to develop when Ray Hammond, the first black metro driver, sees Eula Mae on the route and offers a ride for free instead of denying her one, so she thanked him and gave him a smile before disappearing into the swirling snow. Compassion is always important.

I went home and I asked my children to play one of the games and they liked it. The game had the students engaged because I was engaged when I was playing and so were my kids. The interesting part is that the game is that it could be challenging but that will power of passing to the next level make you keep going. The game is also fun to play and you learn at the same time. Math being a concept that many children hate because of misconception this game can make them change their mind about math concepts. It also can be great for children to interact with one another as they help each other out when they get stuck in a particular section. This activity was so fun and interesting, that I am sure that many children will like it as

I had a great time today with the children and I am very proud of their progress this year. I hope they can keep practicing their Spanish during Summer break. Depending of the number of students registered I will keep teaching this advance class next year.

“The Cure is Within Us” Whoever is his life, do not had a depression? I think most of us ever have felt that anxiety, that state in which we feel that we are nothing and that by that time no matter what happens, you only care about the problems. And the problems are the same for almost all, money, work or love, often the lack of them. The majority of us suffer these depressions are momentary, many are cured when the payday; but others sink into a state of deep sadness, which is then diagnosed as depression by doctors.

Throughout her story, "Snow", Ann Beattie not only used her clear writing style to give the readers an understanding of a past relationship between a man and a woman, but also used the style to help delve into the remarkable matter of human memory. The story began with a rather lengthy paragraph used to recount the female narrator's memory and is filled with detailed, yet shaky, recollections. I thought it was quite difficult to choose just two specific memories because the memories mentioned in the story all have their own reasons as to why they're there, but one memory (combining the female's memory with the man's view) that I thought stood out the most was when they mentioned the visitors' story-telling; I thought this was affecting because

But, when their snack was over, they told me they were very eager to learn and were interested in knowing what they were going to be doing that day. It surprised me that they were very open with me and that their mood completely changed when I started teaching them the lesson. I expected them to love hands on projects so they were very excited when I asked them to draw. They loved receiving help and wanted me to help them draw pictures they had a hard time with such as a gorilla and an umbrella. At this point, the two were laughing with each other and looked like they were great friends. Their English was a lot more advanced than I thought it would be and I was excited to see that. There were times that they did not understand what I was saying, but I stayed calm, focused, and showed them that I was there for them. This visit made me wonder how long they had been speaking English and how long they have been in the United States. I also questioned if they would always be this cooperative when they started learning. In the weeks to come, I can imagine exploring the different ways and approaches that will help these children learn. I know that no two children are the same, whether they speak the same language or not, so I am excited to explore them as individuals.

The poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden shows how a young boy appreciates everything his father does for him but doesn’t thank him for it and looking back as an old man acknowledges it. Throughout my life my mom has always gone out of her way and devoted many hours to help with every club or sport that I participated in, even though I never asked her and I regret that I never conveyed how thankful I was for how much time she put in to make my life easier. Throughout my life I have participated in soccer and band from elementary school through high school. Each of these activities required other parents to help out behind the scenes whether it is planning dinners for when we had an away soccer game or trying to have fund raisers for

Critics all around the globe argue that “Let It Snow” is an amazing reflection piece about a past experience; however, this story has countless characteristics that may not be intriguing to multiple readers. This story takes a radiant memory and tells of the dismal behind it all. The piece “Let It Snow” by David Sedaris is not a superb reflection piece, because this reflection piece is heartbreaking, morbid, and possessed immensely slight tone.

In “The Snow Man” by modernist poet Wallace Stevens, the idea is brought up that one must have a certain mind to see things a certain way; in his poem, Stevens explores the idea of perception, challenging the realities commonly seen, with one common scene often interpreted. The poem describes a scene in the midst of winter’s gloom, then shifts into the perception of this scene, saying how in reality there is no gloom. Stevens mentions how “one must have a mind of winter”(line 1) to refuse internal psychological interpretations on the outside world. But at the same time, he is leaning to the other side, saying how difficult something like that is. In an earlier line, Stevens says “to regard”(line 2), but he laters shifts to “behold.”(line 5) The word behold implies awe, and the words that follow it, “the junipers shagged with ice/ the spruces rough in the distant glitter/ of the January sun;”(lines 5-7) seem to evoke a sense of melancholy. He follows that set up with a sort of obvious-fact tone in his next line by saying “and not to think of any misery in the sound of the wind.” (lines 7-8) Stevens is stating that one must have a mind of winter, or a mind that is like winter, in order to look at all the desolation, and not think of precisely that. But he uses language that sets up a very lonely mood, which is the reality of what he is trying to say. As something is seen and perceived, minds interpret it accordingly to what they feel; vise versa, something commonly associated

The story about the snowflakes started with a god named Iris. She was a queen in a big kingdom with her husband named King Jesus. He had the powers of the sun or the heat. Their story started when they were small. Their parents did not want them to get married or have any relation, because both of them are really different, and if they close to each other they could hurt each other. The years were passing, and they were growing, but they did not care about their powers, because what matter is their love. Until they finally got married without telling their parents. Iris and Jesus had their differences, because Iris was a princess, and Jesus was a simple person, but their parents took him with a god so he could survive from a disease that he had when he was small. The god gave him the power of heat, or the sun. Jesus one day he saw the princess, and it was like love in an instant. That's how they know each other. When they got married, they had a baby girl, and her name Adriana.

Another favorite activity is picking a story that the whole class enjoyed very much during shared reading and performing a small part out of that story using very simple props that are easily available in the classroom. We will do this activity every three weeks or so.

I don’t like people. Which is very unfortunate due to the fact that I officially was the God of Ice, and “officially” as in two seconds ago. I didn’t particularly ask for this - I mean I did, but I didn’t. I didn’t challenge to to be a God, do you know how hard that is? You have to answer the prayers of people, like come on! Speaking of, did you know people actually pray for ice? For it to snow? How bizarre is that?