Elementary school

School is an extraordinary journey that prepares us for life’s challenges in the future. I knew middle school wasn’t going to be filled with coloring activities and jigsaw puzzles like what I had experienced in elementary school. My junior high years were unexpectedly difficult. In order to reach my goals and be successful, I had to mentally prepare to be determined, focused and responsible. 6th grade began on August 10th; I felt nervous but confident. I expected my new classes to be a breeze…

Context For my observation, I was in Mrs. Scott’s third grade classroom at Parkway Elementary School. The school has a good mix of students from all different backgrounds. Parkway Elementary is encouraging to its students and faculty. There are posters hanging up throughout the entire school of various accomplishments. The school also fosters a sense of community between the different grades. There is a program run through the guidance counselor that pairs an older student with a younger…

Crestview Elementary School is an at risk, PK – 5th grade public campus that is one of 29 schools a part of Waco Independent School District. The school is located on New Road, in the heart of Waco, and is surrounded by single-family homes and a public park. Crestview Elementary was originally built in 1951 with renovations and additions completed in 1989, and currently enroll 703 students with a support staff of 73 teachers, professional support and educational aides. Of the 703 students…

years old, and I started to attend kindergarten. This was the first school year for the newly organized Mid-Valley School District. The new proper name of our school was the Olyphant Elementary School, but we commonly referred to it as the Mid-Valley Elementary School in Olyphant. My classroom was in the part of the building that used to be the Olyphant Central School; the part that was dedicated in 1910. This was the same school building in which my great-uncle John and my grandfather…

Within Before I entered the school I looked it up on a webpage Zillow.com. I know that my mom and my sister would use it a lot. Especially when they were looking into moving houses or buying a home. Tulip Grove Elementary school had a rating of 8 out of 10. For me that tells me that the school is considered as a school that is above average. The school has 307 students from K-5th grade. In addition, the student-teacher ratio was 15:1(awesome). I also saw that the school was identified as…

I have had the please of volunteering many times in a classroom at Platte County Elementary School. When I was in high school I tutored a first grade classroom, so I went back to the same teacher and she was more than willing to answer some of the questions that I had and it was great to see that her classroom is still functioning the exact same way it was eight years ago. This only means that the way she manages her classroom must be very effective. This was a great opportunity for me to…

serious problem with the color of my skin until I entered elementary school. I knew there were a multitude of successful african americans in the world and, thankfully, I never had to deal with any severe forms of racism. But I just couldn’t shake off the feeling that I was coming up short. In hindsight, I know that I had more potential, but at that moment, I felt like I was simply average, mediocre even. Both my elementary school and my middle school were predominantly caucasian. The town…

Hundreds of children talking all at once, that’s what morning at Illini Elementary School sounded like. And there I sat having no one to talk to. Until one day a new girl came through the school doors. She was as tall as a giant and had short black box braids. This girl sat down by all the other children in my grade. So many thoughts were going through my head at once I didn’t know what to do. I was so nervous to talk to her that I almost threw up! I didn’t want her to reject me like the other…

Collaborative storytelling Providing digital storytelling tools for the early childhood and elementary school years has been one of my constantly re-defined aims. The most recent tool I have developed is the Team Story editor, (Turcsányi-Szabó and Pasaréti, 2010) and also teamese.inf. Elte.hu. Children are able to create story actors and backgrounds digitally, as scanned figures or other art crafts (e.g., paper origami). They can easily assemble the story pages using the editor (Fig. 3.9.1 and 3…

Should computers be used in elementary school? Computer is a medium of education in many countries. All over the world computers are being used by students to prepare their study materials. Many parents may argue that computers should not be used in elementary school; however, in my opinion the introduction of computers in elementary schools can only benefit the students. First reason for using computers in the classroom is to provide students different kinds of learning experiences. Computer…