{"id":1757,"date":"2010-02-25T13:26:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T20:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1757"},"modified":"2010-02-25T13:26:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T20:26:16","slug":"daily-photo-february-25-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1757","title":{"rendered":"Daily Photo, February 25, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Reading<\/a>
Reading to Headstart<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Reading to Kids<\/strong><\/p>\n

This morning I took the opportunity to go to the local Headstart<\/a> school and read a story to a group of four-year-old kids.<\/p>\n

The service project was presented to my Rotary Club and I signed up not really knowing what to expect. They were recruiting readers for all of their classes this week.<\/p>\n

I arrived 5 minutes early, checked in, and was taken to a nearby classroom. The book (about 15 illustrated pages long with a couple of sentences at the bottom of each page) had already been selected. The teachers gathered the kids and I read the story. The whole process took maybe 15 minutes and I was finished.<\/p>\n

The classroom had a teacher, two teen-age volunteers, and two other adults to assist. There were about fifteen kids in the class. One of them refused to come over for the story and hid behind a bookcase. I told the story (instead of reading it) in a loud voice so he could hear. About halfway through the story he emerged and moved into his assigned place so he could hear the rest of the story.<\/p>\n

The story itself, for an adult, was very inane. It told about a Saturday when it rained and how grumpy everyone got until the rain stopped and the sun came out. The teacher told me after I finished the story that the kids were next going to finger paint pictures of “happy” and “sad” based on the story I had just read. As I left they were setting up the finger paints for the kids, most of whom seemed quite excited to make a picture from the story.<\/p>\n

That was definitely a good experience!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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