Elementary and primary schools

A At no point in my life have I held the position that I knew everything, but I always felt secure in whatever understanding I had come to. Some challenges I’ve faced is how each perspective I’ve gained has been, and probably will continue to be, wrong. There’s always a piece of information I haven’t considered or even known, but in the destruction of my past selves is not a harmful process, it’s the very reason I have grown and learned more rightly the way the world is. The first example of…

Zachery Roberson Virtues and Actions I participated in taking a survey created by the University of Pennsylvania to evaluate your personality on 24 different characteristics. The purpose of the questionnaire is to find which of the 24 character traits are your strengths. The survey is 240 questions long and is comprised of a series of statements, most of these statements ask how much you think the statement sounds like you, but several of them ask how other people see you. After taking the…

reading and analyzing two studies that discussed strategies on encouraging physical activity and/or education in the schools, the importance of who is teaching the class, and then also the support the school gets for physical activity, I found this study interesting since it dealt with the actual physical education class and what the children were actually getting out of the class. A school may have physical education classes but if the students are not benefitting from the thirty to forty-five…

Sometimes what hurts the most, is knowing the inevitable. It was during the warm summer days in the middle of August. School had just started back up and I was venturing on into the fifth grade. It was just your average elementary school year, getting ready to transition into middle school. But what I happen to remember most prominently, is the day after my sister's birthday. My parents happened to be split up, not divorced. So like most parents, they split the time they got with my sister and…

started laughing at me right after I started speaking.I remember thinking to myself: “Did I say something wrong?”. Choosing to go on with my day, I ignored the continuous laughter of the class and told myself that the next days of school would be better, as it was a new school year after all. Everything changed when I went into the classroom one day, looking exhausted from the lack of sleep I was able to get the previous night. I heard my classmates mimicking the sound of an owl, and at first, I…

“Big things come in small packages,” was a common phrase I would always hear back during my elementary school days. My mom would always tell me this right before I went off to school, but to be honest, I never actually fully understood this cliché saying (probably because I was too young). That was until I came across owning a ukulele. This little contraption of glued wood and metal proved to be a great challenge for me. I thought since it was so small and only had four strings, it could not be…

for children between 3 years old to 8 years old. The Lexile level is 470L, which is grade 3 reading level. The scholastics website said between PreK, Kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grade. This book is a great first week back to school book because the old lady is swallowing school items. The book has a lot of rhyming and lively illustrations that will intrigue young readers. The non fiction book I chose was “See Me Grow” by Penelope Arlon and Tory Gordon-Harris. The book was published by…

South Philadelphia. This organization focused on providing resources and supports to low income families within an inner city environment. The program operated weekly and was housed in a local elementary school. Usually, students enrolled in the school would utilize our resources services for after-school programming and their parents would request additional assistance such as furniture vouchers, food vouchers, and other social service related supports. While employed at the nonprofit…

For some reason, adults love to ask kids this question: “what do you want to do when you grow up?” For years I was scared and confused. I couldn’t bear the thought of repeating the same actions day after day until the casket. This anxiety alone made me lose track of time, but I was confident in one thing. I loved to read, and escape into the mind of a character for a couple of hours to solve their problems with my own reasoning, question their thought processes, and evaluate what I would do to…

to Lick for my second year of the summer program. When I first stepped through the doors, I was not only amazed by how nice the buildings looked, but also how safe it looked and felt. The high school was filled with students my age who were either new or there the last year. After just one look at the school, I became very interested in Lick-Wilmerding. I believe Lick-Wilmerding might be an appropriate place, both academically and socially, to continue my education because it has smaller class…