School Break Research Paper

For my Field Experience I chose to observe at Krahn Elementary which is a part of Klein Independent School District. After my approval, I was assigned to four teachers and their classrooms. I observed at Krahn Elementary on six Tuesdays between 15 September 2015 and 27 October 2015, and more or less followed the schedule that was given to me by the Assistant Principal Ms. Shannon Strole. From 8:30 am to 9:15 am I observed Ms. Judy Burkes, who is a third grade Math and Science teacher. Her classroom is comprised of twenty students which range from average to below average learners and a student with ADHD and another with autism. For most part of my observation, M. Burkes had been working with her students on fractions and multiple digits addition and subtraction. From 9:15 am to 10:30 am I observed Ms. Lisa Parker who is a Math co-teacher and resource teacher at Krahn Elementary for grades K-5. During my assigned time, Ms. Parker usually joined Mr. Duru’s fifth grade class of twenty three students as a co-teacher and when required would pull out a group of six students after initial instructions from Mr. Duru and would teach them the concepts separately at a slower pace. This particular group of students with special needs was mostly seen to be focusing more and more on mathematical word problems. These students were students with Learning disabilities, behavioral issues and one of them was a student with ADHD. From 10:30 am to 11:15, I was with Ms. Janice Bluhms, who is a

Ms. Murphy’s paid work consists of teaching young children at a local junior high school. Her daily routine involved planning lessons and teaching the lessons. “I do the best I can to have students meet essential outcomes” (Murphy). Ms. Murphy is a very dedicated educator, and is always willing to help children before and after school, assisting them in understanding the course material. Ms. Murphy strives to promote a welcoming classroom and a safe learning environment so that children are comfortable in asking questions, enabling them to expand their minds. Ms. Murphy also attends meetings with her peers in-regards to learning new strategies, knowing children have different learning styles. After Ms. Murphy’s long day of teaching, she also donates her time to chaperone daily school actives, and special monthly actives. Ms. Murphy’s paid work is from 8:30am-3:30pm, followed by unpaid work, for school which is 3:30pm-5:00pm. When this part of her day is complete, she continues to work at home correcting school work and she maintains her house work

I had a great summer break. I did a whole bunch of fun things over summer break. I traveled to cedar point we rode all the rides there. We climbed on another ride till there was no more rides. We almost rode them twice it was so much fun to go to cedar point. Then we played games where you can win stuffed animals and toys. They had a place where you can buy food and drinks. We left at elven o clock didn’t get home till twelve o clock at night. Next as soon as I got home we went to bed. I will go all the time we will travel to cedar point. I am going to go next summer to when we get off again. We also went on a train to look around at cedar point. My sister and I rode all of the rides. My mom and dad didn’t ride all of them they just watched

Spring break, a time to take a break from school and go on vacation. This year my girlfriend and her family took me to Kentucky. I was so happy. I just love the south. The people there are just so nice they truly have “Southern Hospitality”. My girlfriend and I packed up to get ready for our long trip to the south. We woke up super early to get a head start, we put our bags in the cars and headed to go eat at Mcdonalds to get something in our stomachs. Then we headed off out of Indiana to Kentucky! We saw so many beautiful buildings and so many places about food. Once we got to Kentucky we went to an aquarium and saw so many fish and ocean life creatures it was awesome. We ate at many places like, Waffle House, Cheesecake Factory, and Fatboys.

It was Spring Break and our last year of living overseas so we wanted to make the best of it and go to some places we probably not have the opportunity to go to again. We chose an Eastern Mediterranean cruise. The primary thing that made this trip so unforgettable was my grandparents who I hadn’t seen in 6 years came from Iowa to join us on our vacation. Some of the places it went to were Italy, Greece, and Turkey.

My group is doing a Dinosaur theme for first graders. I decided to do a reading/writing assignment that has an art project towards the end. The student will be reading, “How do dinosaurs go to school” by Jane Token & Mark Teague. Once they finish reading the book they are going to illustrate/paint a dinosaur from the book and write what that dinosaur does in school. They will also reflect and write how they would feel in having that dinosaur with them as a classmate. The class that I have has 5 ESL students and 3 GT students. 2 of those GT students are ESL. So because they need a little extra help (especially since we are working on reading) I am going to group my ESL students into groups of 4 with other students, so if they need help with a word while reading, the other students in their group will help them out. All students will have a copy of the book. Students tend to learn better from their peers, so this will defiantly help out my ESL students. As for my GT students, I will have them leading the reading and discussion from the book. This will give them some responsibility and give them the opportunity to think as a leader. My ESL GT students are very capable of doing the same as the other GT student. I will be providing the supplies for my students so they will not be required to purchase or bring stuff. 50% of my students come from a low-socio economic home. My

Since I was young, I have always had a busy schedule. With school and two sports, I rarely have quality time with my family. But all that changes when summer break rolls around, and my family goes on adventurous trips. On every single trip my family and I have had a great bonding experience and it gets better each year. Every summer has been exciting and has led me to travel to all 50 states. All of these experiences have helped me to appreciate and bond with my family.

I help a classroom that contains special education students. While I am there I am often asked by the teacher to take them out one by one to help with their sight words and phrases. There is a couple of them that still struggle to read fluently and these kids are in the third grade. This article gives a good insight that if I can keep working with the kids that I know that don’t have good reading skills could help them in the future to keep practicing with them. In this article they gave methods on what type of things to do while working with the students. If it is okay with their teacher I could apply those methods with the students to examine progress. Hopefully, I can help these students become the best they can

While observing Ms. Melanie’s Pre-K class, I was able to see some techniques she used to teach her students and how the students interacted with each other. The students start off their day by signing in, which helps the student learn how to spell their name. After signing in, while other students are arriving to school the students are able to play. Once it is 8am, Ms. Melanie calls all the students into group for morning meeting. During morning meeting they pick jobs for the day, such as cleanup inspector, lunchroom assistants, line leader, caboose, etc. During this time they also discuss any activities they will be doing in their small group that day. Today, the small group activity dealt with monochromatic colors, so when it was their small

Upon my arrival today, the students were silently working on math skills using number lines. Once they finished, they went up to the teacher’s desk and had her to review their work until it was time for recess. When the students returned from recess they changed to Ms. O’Neal’s class for reading and social studies instruction. Prior to beginning the day’s reading lesson, the students completed two worksheet pages. One of them was on main idea and details and the other was on sequencing of events. With the main idea and details worksheet, the students collectively read a passage and determined the main idea along with 3 supporting details. With the sequencing of events worksheet, the students read a passage on Hurricane Katrina and were to fill in a graphic organizer with important events and dates

Spring Break is all fun and sunshine...for some. For many high schoolers, especially seniors, the long break between third and fourth quarter usually consists of a trip, usually to the beach. Sometimes these activities and adventures lead to an unexpected trip to the police station or emergency room.

Spring break is something important for students because it gives then a break from school and stress. Two of the main thing that I love to do while in break is spending time with my family and enjoying to go to new places.

Spring break is always a paramount time of the year, it gives students and non students a chance to relax and catch a break from all their responsibilities in life.

The teacher I observe, Ms. Bandura, at B.V.M Visitation School, plans her classroom activies following a specific schedule. Ms. Bandura discussed her planning for Thursdays, the day I observe her, with me last week during my field experience. She takes the kids on a bathroom break right before snack time every day. She plans a journal entry, a religion lesson, and a cursive lesson before the bathroom break. After bathroom break, the children have snack time which is essentially a 15 minute recesses. After this, she does math and spelling with the children before they go to violin lessons. They go to violin lessons in two groups, for an hour total. While one group is in violin, the other group is reading quietly, reading with a partner, or getting

Introduce the kids to Cooperative groupings we first talked about the roles that each student had within their group. I usually had 8 groups within the classroom. and I usually had numbers tacked on the ceiling to indicate wh which group was wh where. most of the groups consisted of 4 students, sometimes or 5 students in a group. the four roles which I had students use were the group manager (Responsible for keeping everyone on task and encourage them to do their best work), the recorder (All the writing for the group and is The lead when it comes to put in a project together), the timekeeper ( encourages the group to stay on task and keep track of how much time has left in the period), And the materials manager (In charge of getting and returning supplies needed for the class period). Every student is responsible for being the speaker at some point