Elementary and primary schools

unless it was mom, dad, my brother, grandparents, or any close family. When it came to preschool, I preferred to just sit back and observe until it came to story time. I loved story time. This passion for story time continued into my early elementary school years also. Since I had always had the passion to be able to read, and be read to, I was pretty natural when it came to actually being taught how to read. We always had “guided reading time” which is when we would be put into reading groups…

Throughout my 13 years of school, and now in college, you learn who you truly become, who your friends are, and especially realize what you’ve been taught eventually pays off. When we were kids, we always thought about who was the most popular, or who had the coolest backpacks. Little did I know learning to respect others, pay attention in class, and even raising your hand when you had a question would show that it would come in handy for the future. Surely when we were kids, did we each think…

it’s still something. I came to the US at around the age of 8. I started of in 3rd grade. I had a bad start, not knowing any English made it difficult to communicate with others and make friends. With a lot of help from the great teachers at my elementary school and also a lot of tutoring I…

There was not one thing individually that changed me. There were many different things some changed me in a negative way some in a positive way. When I wasn’t matured yet I didn’t really know who I was not like I didn’t know my name but I didn’t know who I wanted to be. Some people kind of pressured into doing bad things in class, not like drugs or anything else like that but being disruptive but all that did was turn my As to Bs. Writing also changed a part of me. It changed something that I…

professional. No, it is not the number of years I have served as an educator, or the number of schools that I have worked in, but rather the number of lives and families I saw totally destroyed by the abuse of prescription drugs. Remember, the community in which our school is located has a population s 1,500 people. The significance in the number eleven is the total number of fatal drug over-doses our school district and community dealt with over a length of time spanning eighteen months. This…

A significant event that changed my life forever was when I transferred from Hudsonville to Jenison Public schools. I had been enrolled at Hudsonville for 6 years when my parents and I decided it was time to try something new and transfer into a different environment. When I first got to Jenison I didn't know what to expect. I just prayed that it would be better than the last school I had been at. I wanted to change the fact that I had never had an easy time making friends or having a place I…

where you don't know what to wear, do, or say. I had it worse than most. I was a private school kid, having spent my entire educational existence until 6th grade going to the local Lutheran school. As one of only two girls in a class of five, and the only girl staying in Perham, my social skills were stunted to say the least. This lead to an abundance of excruciating memories of my first year at middle school. Looking back on these memories now, I have learned an important lesson. Time changes…

because our mom and aunt played since they were little and carried it onto us. The boys in the family play football because our dad played for a while in middle school and high school. Football has carried into my brother and he turned out to like it. When I was little, my brother, sister, and I were riding my bike home from school. On the way home my brother and i wanted to race home. My brother beat me, but when my sister was riding down the hill to get to the house. My brother and I…

but Keiko’s family, and their relationship together. At the beginning of the novel, Keiko is put into an all-American elementary school, Rainier Elementary. This is the same school that Henry attends, and when they first meet each other, they realize that they share a common bond, not only do they have to serve the other kids during lunch, but they are the only kids in the school of a different heritage than everyone else. After some time, they begin to grow together, and Henry has to make…

Remember the times in middle school when “talkin’ slang” was considered normal to our peers, while on the other hand our elders face palmed and shook their head in utter shame. At that age, we were considered naive with the belief that “kids will be kids” and we will easily grow out of it, yet many African Americans continue to face the stereotypical belief that they are just illiterate. The book Pinned by Sharon G. Flake and the movie “Dear White People” directed by Justin Simien, exploit the…