First grade

Today I went to Sunrise Elementary to observe Ms. Thune’s first grade classroom. The teacher was extremely friendly and has only been teaching for three years. Right away we headed to recess to pick up the students who were patiently waiting in line. It was a class size of twenty first graders and I quickly realized the teacher was super personable! I was surprised right away because the students did not go to their desks, instead they headed towards the big mat on the floor in front of the promethean

First Impressions How important are first impressions? Some people may think first impressions aren’t important. In fact, they are extremely important. First impressions are the way you first appear to someone, it’s the way they think of you. These impressions can affect you later in life. For example, in Gary Soto’s short story “Seventh Grade” Victor, a seventh grade student, really wants this girl, Teresa, to be his girl. Teresa is in his French class. The class gets their first impression of

One of the greatest barriers I had to face during school was repeating the first grade. I remembered being devastated when I heard the news, my parents were quite devastated as well, I didn't know what to do. I had to see my friends and cousins go on ahead without me, I was all alone. The reason for my repeating of first grade was because I fell back on the learning material and was always off task. Don’t get me wrong it was challenging to understand my teacher Mrs. Robbins from Argentina, she would

Science and Me The earliest memories I have of science is growing bean sprouts in the second grade. I remember gathering around the window in the classroom to look at the progress our little plants were making. I remember being in awe that an entire plant was eventually going to grow from such a small seed. My teacher talked about how important sunlight and water were to the plants, and we were tasked with drawing the bean sprouts in our notebooks. I remember this activity more clearly than most

I remember being in the first grade, I purposefully took my braids down every morning in class, and then I begun crying because I couldn't fix my hair back the way Mother had it. I just assumed that I would get a whooping after school for playing in my hair. My poor teacher, Mrs. Emma Washington couldn't console me and couldn't braid hair either. She honestly didn't know what to do with me. So, she sent for my sister, Betty who was in the third grade at the time. Betty definitely couldn't braid hair;

most recent Freddie Gray. And the baffling fact about the aforementioned names is that they were all blacks. The color black is only a color of a particular set of people not a weapon. On a personal yet related note, I had a taste of “first grade racism” on my first day in the United States. Prior to this

while and left. I was excited for my first day of school, not knowing that it wouldn’t be anything like the open house. My dad and I started my first day of school out by eating biscuit and gravy at Subway. Then, when we got to the school he walked me to my classroom door, hugged me, and said bye. I was confused because at open house he stayed with me. That’s when the excited happy Kenzie turned into upset screaming Kenzie. After I got over being dropped off, the first day wasn’t so bad. It was filled

Rationale While primary grade, general classroom, teachers are keenly aware of the importance of early literacy instruction, with increasing class sizes and diverse populations of students in our classrooms, teachers find it difficult to recognize which strategies are most effective for instruction especially for struggling readers. What’s more, teachers may not fully comprehend the implications of students struggling at such an early stage of literacy acquisition and may assume at some point students

Christine Hauser writes, in her 2016 article “As Students Return to School, Debate About the Amount of Homework Rages,” published in The New York Times, "My daughter, Maya, who is entering second grade, was asked to complete homework six days a week during the summer. For a while, we tried gamely to keep up. But one day she turned to me and said, 'I hate reading'". Hauser tells a story about children having negative attitudes about school because the workload is so heavy. The implications of this

Kindergarten Vocabulary: A Literature Review of Effective Instruction Introduction When students enter into the kindergarten classroom, they are greeted with a plethora of new knowledge that they may have previously not had exposure, such as phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary. Within these, vocabulary is often a major struggle for many children in kindergarten. Young children are often exposed to vocabulary through conversations, but not in a manner of teaching