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The Melrose School Of New York City

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Professor Sonia Maldonado EDU 101 May 2nd, 2017 Spring 2017 4th Grade Observation The Melrose school Ps/Ms 29 is a public school located in the Bronx borough of New York city. The school district in charge of the Melrose school is the 7th district. This school carries 787 enrolled students with grades Pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. This makes this school not only a elementary school but also a middle school. Which creates a great diversity of students because of the grade difference in students walking the hallways. This helps students who attend this school feel more comfortable when it comes time progress to the …show more content…

On the right side of the classroom there is a closet that has four doors and on each door there is small bulletin board three of them with students names and their weekly tasks. Also the teacher also has one of the four bulletin boards with the student of the month and his or her achievements. On the left side of the room there are organizers with books and materials for students use. This same side of the room has the wall with another bulletin board with vocabulary words in which words are added daily and changed weekly. The vocabulary words a placed in alphabetical order. The words placed on the wall are based on the topic of the day. Also, I noticed that when the teacher is going to collect work from the students she first hands the their individual folders for them to place their work in and later she collects everyone 's folder. For the observed 4th grade class there are 23 students in the classroom and one teacher. There are 10 female students and 13 males. The cultural backgrounds in the classroom are diverse, more than half of the students are African American or Hispanic and two of the Students are middle eastern. This fourth grade class does not have any special needs students, Therefore, no one of the students in this class require the help of a paraprofessional. The students have different materials available to them to make their learning easier as well

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