Volunteering

On the morning of Halloween I went to Hemphill Elementary storybook festival. This year was my second year going and I am glad that I was able to go this year too. I started going last year because of a class that I had during my senior year, it was called Ready Set Teach, where I intern with a first grade teacher. I helped her by helping her students in reading and writing, and so the storybook festival was a part of the class. My friend (who was also an intern) and I decided to go to this year’s festival because we wanted to visit the teachers that we used to intern with. Last year the storybook festival was full of people wanting to read to the little kids. Every year the high school cheerleaders, football players, and member from other clubs dress up as a character from the book that they want to read to the children. However this year was different because of the floods. But fortunately my friend and I were able to attend, there was nobody there compared to last year, only a few parents and the teachers. Teachers went to read to other classes during their conference, parents read to their kid’s classes and my friend and I read to the class that we used to intern with. So fortunately kids were able to get a smile from the stories that were read to them, even though the flood had affected the tradition of having a lot people coming to read to them.