Eleventh Meeting. May 3, 2014. Running total - 23 hours.

This day I arrived during the last ten minutes of the class's outside time and observed with my mentor their activities to make sure they were playing safely. We all walked into the classroom and that day there was no homework session because they had done it earlier in the day. I was given a task to cut and glue multiplication problems over addition ones for a math game the program was making for the kids. I was accompanied by an autistic student who usually didn't like new staff/volunteers, and he sat beside me as I was working on the game. He would draw tulips and chatter nonstop about them to me, which I was enthusiastically responding to him on it too. A couple times he would grab my tape/glue and mess with it, resulting in me having to take it away and telling him not to do it.

I was given another project to cut out silhouette outlines of animals for an activity the program was planning and the same student was still sitting beside me, this time cutting out his self-drawn "pine cones" which looked just like suns and placing them into a basket. A one point another student made a comment about the autistic student's pine cones, resulting in a temper tantrum. My mentor had to calm him down and console him on his drawings. I had to make an intervention to the student because it was time to clean up, and the tantrum was starting up again. I told the student to calm down and breathe to stop whining and being angry. My mentor praised me for that action.