Tiffany's Blog

Second grade

Hello, everyone I want to say I love kids. When I go to C.J. Hicks in the morning I work with second grade. The kids are between the ages of 7and 9. I like working and observing the kids but in the future I'd like to work with younger kids. The younger kids are cuter and they are just learning the basics of everything. The second graders pretty much know how to read and write, but with the younger grades are just learning. I want to teach pre- k to first grade because they are just at  the beginning of their learning process and their really cute. In college when I observe the different grade levels I would still want to to work with the younger grades after college. The younger the kids the more they want to do everything you say, and the listen to you. When they get older they realize that they want to do everything they say so it's harder to be in control of the kids. I like the younger ones because they are energetic and willing to learn. I really like all kids but really like the younger ones.

The school is so small!!!!!

This is a new year 2006, Hello everyone. Weblogs are comming back after our winter vacation. When the new year began we got to go to our chosen schools to learn how it is to be a teacher and to help out. The school I got to to go to was C.J.Hicks Elementary. The grade to choose was second grade. We go every  morning On Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, for first period. Every morning the students in all grade go to an assigned class for reading. Even though My teacher teaches second grade she, also teaches a third grade reading class. The students in the class are great. They are hyper, loud, and seem to play around a lot. For the most part, the students can read. All of the students are in third grade except for one, their is this one little girl who is in the first grade but, is the third grade reading class. Wow, that is great she is that smart to have skipped a grade. Their is another boy in the class who is I think in an inclusion to the classroom, this little boy is smart because he can read but, he acts different from the other kids. Their is another little girl who is new and, only speaks Spanish, so I had to help her with reading with flash cards, she made improvements. I get to read to the kids at the beginning of reading and I learned when they don't like the book you will know. I had a great time at the school and I now I'll have more. What can I do to get the kids more interested in the books?

Hello Everyone How are you today? Well I'm great and today I'm going to talk about a great teacher in my life. Have you ever had a teacher in your life that has stayed in your memory because of who they were or what they did.  In elemtary school I went to a school called C.J Hicks. I started going to this school in the second grade. Well In the third grade I got Mrs. Garner as a teacher. I atomaticly  loved her, she was very nice, and you could tell she loved kids. Mrs. Garner was a understangind teacher and did Ll she can to help her students. When I was a little kid I was very hyper. I was always running around and sitting still was not working for me. In class I was always moving in my chair or tappin my feet. Somehow I hated sitting in my chair so I stood up while listening to her talk. When work was given for the class to do I would always get it done first and would be bored afterwards. Mrs. Garner would see that I hated to sit in the chail and sometimes she would let me sit in the rocking chair, I liked that because the chair moved back and forth and back anf forth. when I was donr with my work she would let me help her around the classroom, and I liked this because I was helping the teacher. Mrs. Garner would also talk to me and interact with me. Everyday I would ask her what she was having for lunch because it seemed important to me. She would answer me everyday, so I started asking her if she wanted to trade with me and even though I knew the answer I would ask anyway. The reason I liked her so much is because she never got angry with me and was always understanding with me being hyper. Alot of teacher don't know what to do with a hyper kid in their class and ignore them. Mrs. Garner didn't ignore me she interacted with me. I miss Mrs. Garner and wish she could be my teacher again. She left that next year to another school and I want to tell her thank you for being a great teacher. Have you ever had a teacher that was to

 

Early childhood education

Should children be put in schools when they are 3, 4 and 5 years old?  Yes, the earlier you put your kid in school it improves their school life later in life. A lot of kids are in day care all day and it gives them the structure as of a real school but do they learn any thing.. To me kids should be put in a pre- K program or a daycare that is based on educating your child before he/ or she even enters school.  Reg Weaver, president of the National Education Association says that children who attend a full day of kindergarten are better prepared intellectually, socially, and psychologically, then those who attend it half a day or none, and that trying to repair reading problems in the fourth grade is more expensive then teaching it earlier in life. I really think this is true because kids can pick up and learn more earlier in life than later. Do you think educating children in life works out better for them later?

Excitement in weblogs!!!

While looking through work of students in the fifth grade, we learned about how to make better and more exciting weblogs. These students have been working on their weblogs for a year and they are very talented in they writing. I was impressed at their way of writing, and how much I learned from other students. The topic I really liked was when Alejandra said" Catch the readers attention!" She talks about how if the weblog is interesting then people will want to keed comming back to read it and like it. I think that is very important because you probably won't get great feed back if no one wants to read your blog because its boring. Would you like to read a boring weblog even if it has great information?

what is the class I am in?

Hello, My name is Tiffany and I'm going to tell you about the class I am in and why I'm in it. I am a junior in high school and I have always liked kids. The class I am in is the teacher cadet class, this class is for students who are thinking about being a teacher in the future. The reason i took this class is because I have always enjoyed being around kids and interacting with them. I am in the first year, first semester of this class. In this semester we talk alot about the educational program and how to be around kids but, next semester we actually get to go to different schools and be in the classrooms and interacting with the kids. I want to be a teacher of a elementary school because I like younger. The reason I'd rather work with the younger grades is because of their energy, and they have a lot of energy, I also love how they they learn and how they act. I want to be a teacher because i want to be able to teach kids and teach myself. This class for me will be fun and I can't wait for next semester. What do you think it's like working with kids?