Kindergarten

of high school i was all set and ready for that job career, i thought i knew that's what i was going to be and i was all set there was n o changing it, but i was wrong when i started my senior year and I had a Teacher Assistant class for the kindergartens. I have never wanted to be a teacher because i didn't exactly like school and i have never thought of myself as the teacher type, but this class has showed me that i actually love being a teacher and i have the qualities of being a teacher.…

Irony, it’s a strange thing isn’t it? Think about it, the exact definition of irony is: a state of affairs or event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often amusing as a result. In The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, Liesel’s case, the irony of her obsession with stealing books, is that she didn’t even know how to read to begin with. It was mentioned in the beginning of the book that she didn’t know how to read, because it states “ when he made her point out any words she…

Throughout my university degree and my professional experiences I have actively participated in activities in the school and university. Integrated within the early childhood aspects of my course was the emphasis on nature pedagogy and students been exposed to a range of resources which included natural and real world materials. A workshop was done at the university around the elements of fire and water and how these could be safety integrated into the framework and provide students with…

schooling actually starts with failure. You, see I never went to preschool, this was due to the fact that my family could not prove I was born, because we did not have a birth certificate. In fact, my family did not have one for me until I was in kindergarten. School plays a big role in many people’s lives. Though the first couple of years had…

practicum application involved observing two kindergarten classrooms, Ms. Jones’ and Ms. Young’s classrooms, to determine the management theory or theories involved, as well as appreciate the differences in teachers’ management styles. The setting of this practicum application was Samuel Chase Elementary School, a Title I school in Prince George’s County, Maryland with a fire last October affecting the kindergarten and first-grade classes this year. The kindergarten classrooms I visited this…

up multilingually helps children to speak multiple languages fluently later in life, the beginning of children’s efforts in public education are somehow vague; some children do not visit even pre-school, others already start out learning in pre-kindergarten. This text will act as a point of reference about the opportunity cost of not providing an excellent childhood education, or conversely, the external benefits of educating someone else’s children. It will serve as a contributing source to the…

known as 9/11; which happened on September 11, 2001. This year was a big year for me. My birthday is on September 5, 1996, I started kindergarten in 2001. I could have started the year before but then I would have been only 4 years old. Kindergarten was just getting started, I believe we started in late August, early September this year. Only a few weeks into kindergarten there is a scary terrorist attack. At that age I didn 't know what was going on, all I remember is how sad everyone was. This…

started and I was placed in Mrs. Haney’s kindergarten class and took speech class for my lisp. I came in march but adjusting and making friends at that age was easy; but I was learning on a total different curriculum in Passaic, which at the time focused on keeping us from discriminating against the other kids we went to school with in our widely diverse community in kindergarten and a rigorous reading program in first grade, which I did not get to attend. Kindergarten was graded on such an easy…

class day only me and a few other students would be left in the class while the others went to their AIG class. I felt as if I were missing out on a great opportunity that I qualified for. Many of the students were placed in the program during kindergarten, but I was not even living in North Carolina yet during that time, so I thought it was unfair that I was not even given the chance to test into the program. I built enough courage to talk to my mom about it who did eventually ask my teacher…

My field observations took place at Renaissance Charter School at Central Palm. I honestly had a wonderful experience and I really enjoyed my time there. I was assigned to Ms. Pickholtz’s 1st grade class. When I first arrived to the charter school I was extremely nervous and a little anxious because just the thought of actually helping a teacher run a class seemed scary to me because I felt like I would do a horrible job at it. However, I was welcomed by both the teacher and the class and I felt…