Rewarding Yet Exhausting

In the HeadStart Winterim, thirty three Lawrence Academy Students have been helping out at various schools in Lawrence, MA and Lowell, MA. Mr. Woo, on of the faculty leaders of the HeadStart Winterim, has been leading eight students who act as teachers in eight different classrooms in Lawrence, MA. The schools we can find LA students helping out are the Common Street School, the Boys and Girls Club, Casa Roja, the Park Street School and another school in Methuen. Mr. Gagnon, Mr. Bates and Mr. Mitchell are leading twenty five students who are each acting as teachers in various classrooms in Lowell.

During their days helping as teachers, students work alongside two to four professional teachers and help to lead anywhere from eight to twenty children, ranging from ages three to five. While acting as a teacher, students helped manage the children during breakfast and lunch, manage play stations, help with reading and crafts, hold lessons on numbers and colors, help with recess activities, and modeling to the children how to be kind, sharing and respectful. Over the past week and a half of helping out in the classrooms, many Lawrence Academy students have formed friendly attachments to the students they are teaching. Students also expressed their new-found appreciation for teachers, especially those teaching preschool and elementary students.