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I observed a 2nd grade classroom with 19 students. I choose to observe 2nd grade because I am opening to teaching in 2nd grade. I am interning in a kindergarten classroom, so I thought it would be interesting to see how a 2nd grade classroom was managed. I have not experienced 2nd grade before. 1. The students knew that the quiet signal was “class, class”. I didn’t know the quiet signal before observing, but all the students were taught the meaning of this quiet signal. 2. R.E.A.C.H poster:…

1. How does it feel teaching today compared to when you first started? Throughout the years, did you learn any new teaching methods? If so, which one was the most efficient? What has been your favorite aspect of teaching all these years? There is a lot more challenges and expectations related to the students. For example, I’ve noticed that children have more needs nowadays than years ago when I first taught. I have to teach a lot more using different modalities and do a lot of small group…

she became good when she entered third grade. From then, I waited for the third grade to come. In Korea, there is a tradition of eating a bowl of rice cake soup on New Year 's Day and it was said that eating a bowl paralleled becoming older. Therefore, being the hasty kid I was, I decided to eat five bowls so that I could gain years faster. This ended tragically as I remained in the bathroom for the remainder of the day. Not to mention…

I sit on Erin 's bed next to Petunia the cat. Petunia is probably my favorite Augustine cat although it 's just so hard to pick favorites. She has the cutest orange and black pattern. Not that Charlie and Rosie aren 't cute but they 're both so mean to Petunia, she 's old and weak and her purr is the most adorable noise and she never tries to hurt them but they always attack her. The only sound is the sound of Erin typing on her computer. Our paper is due tomorrow and neither of us have started,…

sixth grade, I wanted to be an architect. By ninth grade, nothing interested me anymore. My grandfather became gravely ill and hospitalized when I was in ninth grade. Visiting my grandfather was the first time I had entered a hospital since I was six years old and my father took me to meet my new baby sister. The hospital was an imposing building and yet I felt energized, not intimidated, by the setting. I witnessed my grandfather’s nurse interacting with him and the connection she had created…

I moved many times during my childhood and into my teenage years. I sometimes liked when we moved because it was excited to see what we could discover in our new community, but it could also be heart breaking at other times. For me growing up and sometimes returning to a community or area the best way I could remember who was who was by finding out what school I knew them from. Many times I would receive an odd look when I would ask this type of question. For this reason I decided to write my…

in love since freshman year in high school. They loved the same foods, movies, music, and even the same had the same favorite color. They were picture-perfect. He walked her to every class and gave her a compliment every day; nothing could could separate them. They were from a small town called Whistlebush, Mississippi which had a population of 182 people. Rome lived on Park Street and Julie lived on Main Street, one street over from Rome. They had met when they were 5 years old when Julie and…

Bullying 101; an untold story It’s the end of our 6th grade year, we can’t wait to be in 7th grade and at the junior high! Meeting friends at our lockers in between class, getting out earlier, and even being treated like we are more mature, it was all going to be so great; or so I thought. It was around the middle of my 7th grade year that I found out how much bullying can break you down. As things started out it was just small talk, calling me a whore, or ugly but I could simply ignore this.…

tries to keep him out of trouble. He noted the worst thing about their relationship is she is not clear when giving orders. In regards to his father, James noted he does not know his father, but was introduced to a male named “Michael” when he was ten-years of age. He noted “Michael” was deported to Haiti on drug charges and he no longer has contact. James stated that he has always lived with his caretaker and his…

know us. As years passed we all became very close, I never got bored because on the weekends it was all 8 in one big house. My father took us out every weekend. We went to movies,…