Viviane – 3/10/10 – LINC

On Wednesday, Kyla, Naomi, Nora, and I went to our fourth LINC visit.  It was another reading program at St. Jude, but in my opinion, it went a lot better this time.  We took the “A” train as usual, but Naomi and Nora wanted to transfer to the “1” at 168th Street because we would only have to walk one block instead of five.  However I thought the “1” would be way to slow, so we decided to race.  Naomi and Nora vs. Kyla and me.  Despite the longer walking distance, Kyla and I won, so next time we would all take our route.

When we got to the school, we were assigned one or two Kindergarteners to read with.  After reading just one book, it was basically just free time for all.  Some kids decided to draw, others just sat, and the rest talked amongst themselves.  Well, that left us 8th graders without much to do, so I suggested we play a drawing game at my table.  We would have one sheet of paper and each person would draw the first thing that came into their minds, even if it’d be something completely unrelated to everyone else’s drawings.  Naomi joined the game and it was a lot of fun.  Once the paper was full of drawings, Naomi, Kiarra (a fifth grader), and I led a couple rounds of the hand game Quackadillioso and all of us had a great time.  The Kindergarteners learned a new game, the fifth grader at my table was very helpful, and we all could’ve agreed that no one was bored.