Rameen's Influence On Our Community

She demonstrates an emerging ability to skip count by 2’s and 10’s and is encouraged to work on counting by 5’s. Marina can recognize and create patterns like AB and ABC. With support she is able to translate and extend simple patterns. Marina has shown growth in representing numbers in a variety of ways by extending past pictures. In our shape unit, Marina was able to name most 2D and 3D shapes. She is able to draw a triangle, square, circle and rectangle. Marina is encouraged to work on making her notebook neat so it is easier to read. She shows respect for other students by listening and valuing their contributions. An example of this is when engaging in a shape hunt Marina was able to work with others to find 3D objects in our environment. Marina is encouraged to continue working on adding numbers together. She is supported by the use of manipulatives and different

Melinda is very attached to her trees, she is very much alike them in the way that she grows with confidence and blooms into a wonderful student. At the beginning of the year when Melinda is first assigned to draw trees, she has some difficulty, " I take out a page of notebook paper and a pen and doodle a tree, my second grade version, crumple it into a ball and take out another sheet. How hard can it be to put a tree on a piece of paper?"(32) because this is Melinda's first tree she has trouble she does not quite understand the meaning and the be behind

Throughout Speak, trees are a prominent theme. The topic of Melinda’s year long art project focuses on a tree, and they also represent her growth and resilience following a sexual assault the summer before her freshman year.

The Adams Middle School academic community were offered incredible opportunities enjoy experiential learning on site. Educators and pupils participate in conservation activities on a weekly basis (CEC, 2017).

I observed Harper, a 23 month old little girl that is full of energy. Also participating in the interaction with Harper was her mother and five year old sister, Mya. Harper is very friendly and outgoing. She is very interested “reading books” and loves to be read to. She enjoys helping her mother clean and do simple tasks. She seems to be very confident with and without her mother in her sight. Harper’s father is not actively involved in her life because he lives in another state.

Growing up Brenda had to tend to the chickens and cows, doing her chores helped her learn a good work ethic. She had 1 brother (Arlan) and 1 sister (Sharon). One time her brother threw her shoe on the roof when he got made at her and she had to get it with a ladder. She said that her favorite thing to do as a child was go to Grandma Wray’s house on Sundays. At Grandma’s house she would cook food and bake cookies. Brenda also enjoyed running when

The students frequently practice self-directed learning through multiple assignments, experiences and activities in their class. Through a homework assignment students learn about India in interdisciplinary and in depth ways when Claire asks them to go home and find items that come from India. By doing this they are making real world connections, further enforced since they are familiar with these objects, and therefore reinforcing their comprehension of the topic. Because the children also present their finding to their peers, they are also exercising cognitive elaboration. An experience the students had was going on a trip to a hindu temple in Massachusetts, we get to watch the students run to different shrines, dedicated to gods

This week we are focusing on bubbles! Today during circle time, Donovan and Savar picked out one of our favorite books, “Manners Time”, by Elizabeth Verdick. We practiced our sign language and reviewed “please” and “thank you”. Then we had fun popping the bubbles in Elmo’s “Let’s Get Clean” book. After reading, we stayed out of the rain and headed to Movement Matters! Palmer and Orville were adventurous and climbed all the way to the top of the rock climbing wall! Kenley and Aarav had fun rowing their wooden boat and swaying back and forth with their friends from Sprouts 2. Back in the classroom, we suited up in bubble wrap and stomped in blue and pink paint to create some amazing bubble art! Everyone loved popping the bubble wrap!

- Talk with and explore the culture, heritage, backgrounds and traditions of every child within the context of their community and expand on this by getting the children to engage in these cultures actively for example learning a dance from a child’s culture.

Mila did very well using her spoon to eat the fruit for breakfast. When it comes to eating with a spoon she slowly picks it up with her right hand, but sometimes waist it. After eating breakfast, Mila washed her hands and played with the toy baby’s. As I watched her I noticed that she sings and rocks the baby to sleep. She shows a lot of love to the toy baby by hugging it, squeezing and feeding it. When Mila wants something she gets my attention by smiling and pointing her finger. Today I had a ball in the dramatic play area rolling it back and forth to Pierson and Annabel. While playing Mila and Maddie joined in by sitting beside on another. We each rolled it back and forth to one another. As we played, Ms. Myrna changed everyone’s diaper

What to do?” I questioned myself. Then I said, Page 11 “First, we will have a team to scout out the forest and see what we forest friends need to do to rebuild it. As you all know and can see, I am stuck in the ground, but you little animals and birds can move and need to help as much as you can to rebuild another beautiful

During this particular observation the adult in charge had organized a special Nature Walk and Nature collage project for the children to participate in. First the adult in charge handed out bags to each child and asked them to write their names on in an effort to practice their writing skills and to feel as though they were playing an active role in the activity. Then the adult and children went outside and began to collect leaves, sticks, bark and any other “nature” items to place within their bags. The children had free reign to choose whatever items they would like to add to their artwork. After discussing the various foliage, they selected for the Nature collage, they all headed back to begin their project. An older child was paired with a younger child and they were given the art supplies they needed to create the artwork however they liked. The children were paired up in this manner to allow the younger ones to learn from the more experienced older children and to allow the older children an opportunity to gain confidence from their

It seemed like she liked playing with others more than just playing by herself. When the little boy came over to knock the blocks over she started laughing, because she thought it was so funny. Also, when she was in her crib after she got in trouble, and the child approached her again to play she quickly stopped crying and began to play with him. Even when she was walking with the walker she wanted someone to play with her and when she started “chasing” the other child with the walker she laughed again. This shows me that she is very social and plays well with

She loves to practice dancing and loves to swim. These two were so playful and loving with each other. My favorite part of the session was when Ana was hugging her mother while they were on the ground together. It looks like they're exchanging girly secrets! Another part of the session I adored were the images where the two had foreheads pressed together. It's another moment that shows the closeness these two have.

The observation made me reflect and discover the child’s interests, I could assess his developmental levels and I have observed what strategies were being used to attain their goals. After the observation I reflected upon it and realised that I have learned a lot about their personalities and skills that they need to practice.