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This visit to my classroom was my fourth visit. The way my reading coach has the visits set up is that the first half hour we pick out our game that we are going to play, our sight words, and the poem of the week. Then, the second half hour we meet in groups with our three children and play the games, after we are done we are sent back to our meeting room and fill out our paperwork of what we did with the kids, the games that we played, how they acted, and if they made any progress. Personally, I feel that we do not have enough time to fully make a difference or an impact on the students. We're basically given ten minutes to do each activity with the children and it feels very rushed. I think that if we were given more time, even ten minutes more, they would learn more and the information would sink in better. There is one boy in my group who knows all of his sight words and can play the games and make sentences effortlessly. I think that if he were doing another activity or had harder words to learn, it would better benefit him. Also, something that really upset me, and I felt was very wrong to be happening in a school enviorment was the way the teacher next door acted. She screamed at one little boy for not being in the right seat. She did not ask him once to move, or say it sternlly, she screamed like a drill sergeant. I dont think my parents have ever yelled at me like that. These children come from single parent homes in poverty and probably have to deal with things like that at home and it should not be happening to them in school. This school should be a place where they come and feel safe and protected, not somewhere where they need to feel on edge or uncomfortable. Teachers should be someone who they can look up to, feel safe with, and confide in; not someone who they are afraid of.