Second grade

About six years ago, I moved to the United States together with my family. After having been here for one week, I started my ninth grade. I learned English in Vietnam for a couple years before moving. However, my skills weren’t good enough for me to understand and talk to my teachers and peers. I struggled for a long time to fit in. Everything to me was unfamiliar. Beside having a difficult time to understand the new language, I was also having a hard time to getting used to other aspects of the…

Hawaii Academy of Arts and Science (HAAS) with seventh grade students to determine possible interventions that could support the current sixth grade students’ academic needs as they transition to middle school next year. Based on the data, classroom guidance lessons in the areas of organization, self- and time-management, test taking and homework strategies, and study skills are being implemented to support closing the academic gap with the sixth grade students. This paper provides a plan for…

Something that I noticed in sixth grade about myself, was that I liked to control everything. In the movie, Cameron is trying to control Ferris so that no one will get in trouble. This made me feel more secure, and it made me want to try to get straight A’s. When I think of my 6th grade self, I think of shy and insecure Cameron from Ferris Bueller’s Day off because I too felt that way. In seventh grade, I resembled Sloane, Ferris Bueller’s easy going girlfriend. I, like…

8th Grade Graduation As we sit here today, eagerly waiting to graduate, let’s ask ourselves one simple question. Where would we all have been without teachers today? It’s not just teachers though, it’s the friends we made; the experiences and knowledge that we all gained throughout elementary and middle school too. Even though we are all graduating middle school today, I think I can speak on behalf of my classmates when saying that we all learned so much already. To my teachers, friends,…

overhead. In fourth grade my teacher Ms. Davis always made sure that we all participated. Mostly everyone in the class enjoyed going up on the overhead projector. My teacher taught us to learn these things in a fun way. I remember that fourth grade was my favorite year in elementary school. It was definitely one of the years I developed my writing skills the best. When I was in 5th grade I learned how to analyze characters,…

is because most of the subjects we learn at school are by our language. We only have one English class and we focus to learn how to read and write in English when we are in middle school. My English reading story begins when I was in 6th grade. It was in sixth grade when I had an interest in learning English. My English teacher was my favorite of all my teachers because he was the one who gave me a way to learn how to read. His name was Tasfay but all the students call him teacher Tesfaye. He…

after a while of talking to him the urge to play this game got bigger and bigger! So I explained to my dad why I liked this game and he said they were starting a youth football league and I freaked out at the time I was in 4th grade and next would be my time to shine! So fifth grade year comes around I 'm all signed up for football and excited first practice so excited! I get there and I am told I cannot participate because I didn 't have my physical so here I am wondering what a physical is. I…

hopefully I would have a full-time job, possibly a car, an apartment if not a house, maybe a husband, and maybe a couple of kids nothing too extravagant. I am not too clear on my future but that’s alright because all I am doing next year is going into grade…

“Did you go to school in your pajamas?”, “How did you make friends?”, “How can you stand having your parents teach you?” These are the questions that plagued the first eighteen years of my life. I don’t like to admit it, but I was homeschooled. Not a modern homeschooler that takes dual-credit or online classes, but an actual homeschooler. What does being homeschooled have to do with my math experiences? The majority, if not all, of my math experience involved my immediate family. Mom, dad, and…

“Assessment of Physical Activity Levels of 3rd and 4th Grade Children Using Pedometers during Physical Education Class” 1. This research study was also found on the ERIC database. After 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…