My name is Emily (If you are reading this and don't know who I am, that's pretty cool. That probably means that Karlie and I have achieved our lifelong goal of becoming famous on the internet. We have made some pretty awesome Youtube videos, but they haven't quite taken off yet). I graduated from UVM last December after having student taught in a wonderful kindergarten classroom. Soon after graduating, I got a job as a paraeducator at a school in Colchester, Vermont once again working in a Kindergarten classroom. Then this summer I worked at a camp with five and six year olds, so kids that either just finished or would be entering kindergarten in the fall. Needless to say, I enjoy working with kids. And have fallen in love with Kindergarten just a bit. One day I will go back to being a more traditional classroom teacher, but for now I am doing an awesome AMERICORPS program!
I applied to a variety of Americorps programs in which I knew I would somehow be working with kids. The program I am doing is based out of North Central Washington, and is called Intermountain Americorps (IMAC for short). Yeah, North Central Washington is not exactly a neighbor to Burlington, Vermont so I will explain how I got here in the next post. Hint: I did not fly or disapparate. I am serving in a K-12 school in a tiny tiny town called Pateros. What will I be doing you ask? Well I am still kind of figuring that out. But mostly tutoring, mentoring, planning events, recruiting volunteers, and just being a good role model for these awesome kids. My supervisor was working on my schedule last week but three things I know/think I will be doing are: tutoring 2nd grade ELL students (English as a Second Language), helping with reading in a 5th grade classroom, AND helping in an elementary school band class! Karlie is going to have to help me help students learn how to play the flute and saxophone.
I am very excited to be in a new place, and to be a part of a new school! In addition to serving at Pateros School, I also have a lot of Americorps trainings and meetings with a group of about 30 members. We had our first days of training last week, and it was great to be able to meet new people who are in this area. I can't wait for more!
Here's some of the AmeriSWAG we got after the first meeting. One of the things I like about Americorps is that they like to make "Ameriphrases," so basically any word can be added after "Ameri" to make a cool phrase. So...Amerigear, Ameriswag, Amerifriend, the list goes on...My favorite is an "Ameraffair" which is when two Americorps members find themselves in a very friendly relationship and perhaps get married.
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