Overview of placement

I am in a first grade classroom, containing of mostly ESL students. In fact, one of the students speaks only Spanish; he just moved here less than a week ago from Mexico. At the time I come in for tutoring, it is math time in the classroom, in which the class participates in math centers that rotate every fifteen to twenty minutes. When I am there, I usually help out in two of the four centers, depending on where my cooperating teacher wants me to go. Sometimes, I run the math game center. In this center, there are simple games that can be done in either pairs or done alone. These games always include some form of counting. In one game, the students must add up number cards in a competition to see whose sum is greater. During another game, students must count either heads or tails when poured out on the ground from a cup. A third game includes having a select number of chips in a cup, taking some out, and finding how many are still in the cup without looking. In this center, I help the students find strategies and ways to add and subtract in a way that they could better understand. The other center I run is the iPad center. Here, I give students ideas and suggestions on what math learning games to play for the time block. I like this center the least because it does not involve much of my help; it only promises that the students won't get too out of hand with their behavior. As you can see, I do not do any type of reading activities because of the time I come in during the days.