Cooper Elementary School Case Study
Cooper Elementary School 95688 Cooper Elementary School is located in Vacaville, California. Cooper has classes for grades kindergarten through sixth grade. Children in these grade are preparing themselves for middle school and must develop critical thinking skills to be successful. Precausal thinking and preoperational thinking skills are learned during these early years (McLeod, 2010). Cooper has many programs that are developing and honing these and other skills in preparation for higher grade levels and life.
Reading at Cooper The development of reading skills is the foundation of Coopers learning curriculum. The sixth grade students are encouraged to participate in a reading competition as a part of their daily reading requirements. Reading may start as a group of sounds or utterances that begin between 10 and 15 months old (Feldman, 2014). By the sixth grade children at Cooper may read millions of words in sixth grade alone. In fact, there is one girl that read over 4 million words this year and is the uncontested winner of the reading competition in her class. Fundamentally speaking, reading can start at different ages for different reasons in a child’s life. A child’s parents that actively read and sing to his or her child may help the child speak and read sooner. A …show more content…
Learning numbers from a very early age requires memorizing them and understanding each value. One such simple and fun game to play at an early age is, placing a handful of Cheerios cereal in front of a child and requesting he or she take a certain number of them and eat them. The metamemory that this contributes to, helps in the understanding and knowledge that children have and what processes underlie it (Feldman, 2014). Fun games are a focus even for sixth graders at Cooper. In fact, Cooper sixth graders are allowed to go to certain approved educational math websites to paly math games as a learning
Reading at Cooper The development of reading skills is the foundation of Coopers learning curriculum. The sixth grade students are encouraged to participate in a reading competition as a part of their daily reading requirements. Reading may start as a group of sounds or utterances that begin between 10 and 15 months old (Feldman, 2014). By the sixth grade children at Cooper may read millions of words in sixth grade alone. In fact, there is one girl that read over 4 million words this year and is the uncontested winner of the reading competition in her class. Fundamentally speaking, reading can start at different ages for different reasons in a child’s life. A child’s parents that actively read and sing to his or her child may help the child speak and read sooner. A …show more content…
Learning numbers from a very early age requires memorizing them and understanding each value. One such simple and fun game to play at an early age is, placing a handful of Cheerios cereal in front of a child and requesting he or she take a certain number of them and eat them. The metamemory that this contributes to, helps in the understanding and knowledge that children have and what processes underlie it (Feldman, 2014). Fun games are a focus even for sixth graders at Cooper. In fact, Cooper sixth graders are allowed to go to certain approved educational math websites to paly math games as a learning