The Voice for Crispus Attuck's Wednesday/ Friday Team!!

         My team and I are part of a Wednesday/Friday group that works with preschoolers at a school called Crispus Attucks.  This preschool is in Dorchester, MA and our transportation includes walking to the Ruggles Orange Line stop and taking a bus that drops us off directly in front of the school. There are nine of us who travel together; however, a few of us go in early to set up. The room that we do our sessions in is called "Chipmunks 2" and the age group is between four and five. We are all assigned at least one child; some have just one, some have two, and some even have three children.
        By now we are all adjusted to the routine of sessions. We are still learning about our children's personalities and the way they learn. We are also learning how to excite the children for reading time and the proper techniques to appropriately read to children.
        As a team, our strengths are shown in the way we cooperatively work together in our sessions and when we have our team meetings. During sessions we work cooperatively by communicating beforehand about what is going to happen and model cooperation to the children. Also, during our team meetings we bring up pros and cons of the day, or as we like to call them "pluses" and "deltas.” We discuss things that went well that day and things that need to be worked on. When we find things that need to be worked on we offer each other suggestions as to what we can do next time.

Heather MacDonald