it went smoothly — appreciated Niharika’s support! the group got smaller about halfway through, the last parent picking up rang the front doorbell but couldn’t reach anyone, so thinking of adding my number to the front so they can reach me

played with a fort builder set, worked on homework, some students played soccer/ping pong, others on the playground

Test

Questions for Grasshopper: ~ Does MDA pre-determine which 20 kids will be a part of the class for the day? ~ Who is substituting for me on the days I am out? ~ What other ways can I support the enrichment teacher for the day? (priming students + directing students to them/ keeping time) ~ Do enrichment teachers need to check out with me any way? Notes: ~ Today was a sweet day in terms of introducing myself and saying hi to as many students as I could and responding to some day-of details [change in space + additional students] ~ Students had freeplay on the playground before moving into the gym [played soccer, volleyball, tictactoe] and some students worked on homework ~ I was grateful for the presence of additional adults, there were additional kids who were not in aftercare but were in the mix because of back to school night ~ It wasn't clear which students were intended for the enrichment class - wondering about the process of either allowing students to opt-in or assigning them ~ It was back to school night, so there were maybe more students than usual + the usual auditorium wasn’t quite useable yet for settling kids into homework, so we went to the gym for the free play time ~ I appreciated the support of staff for signing in + snack handoff -- still figuring out the flow as kids are coming from multiple directions ~ Appreciated the presence of multiple adults while everyone was on the playground ~ There was a student who injured their thumb, and Jack (the USF volunteer) helped me escort someone to the front office ~ There were two students who got into a fight on the playground so I stepped in between them to separate them - I talked to each of them separately about what happened - sounded like some ongoing interpersonal thing, tried to talk to one student [am also asking MDA in Slack on any procedures they have there] ~ It was helpful for there to be multiple adults when there was a need for water, or someone got injured ~ Said bye to each student as they got signed out with parents