She had started kindergarten earlier in the year and loved hanging out with her friends. Unfortunately, today was not a good day for Valerie. During nap time, she had wet her parents. Luckily, Valerie had woken up before the other students. Completely ashamed, she asked her teacher to call her parents.…
Mr. Brown, a second-grade teacher, is concerned about Ed, one of the students in his class. On the basis of his observations, he reports that Ed never completes any of the classroom work that he is assigned, and he reads at a beginning first grade level. He suspects that Ed has a learning disability and refers him for a special education evaluation. The school psychologist, Dr. Long, administers an intelligence test to asses Ed's cognitive abilities. She assigns Ed to a class for students with Learning Disabilities and develops an Individualized Education Program for this setting. She then sends Ed's parents a letter, informing them that Ed has a learning disability, and invites them to a meeting to describe…
Thomas and Louise started to take Lynn to their doctor Dr. Bales. Even though the parents expressed their concerns, Dr. Bales said that Lynn was too young to do any testing on and that she seemed perfectly normal and could not even find anything wrong with her ears. The parents were still concerned so Dr. Bales suggested that they see a specialist, however this was after many anxious and scary appointments where the parents could not find out what was wrong with their daughter. What made this even more frightening for Thomas and Louise was that while they were trying to teach Lynn to speak and form words she forms everything…
age. The novel tells the reader her thoughts. The first few chapters introduce the reader to her family with telling about her early childhood, how she looked like a usual baby but later just never learned to talk or move. When she gets older and her parents want her to go to school, people first think that Melody is not good enough to learn and understand things, and this opinion is shared by students and teachers. But Melody is smart and the first one who noticed the pregnancy of her mother with her little sister Penny, who is born as a child without disabilities. When Melody makes it,…
Melody was born with cerebral palsy and was declared retarded and mentally handicapped at a young age. During the exposition of the book the future did not look bright for Melody, and her family decided to enroll her at Spaulding Street Elementary school. Although Melody was consider retarded she is actually very wise and has an amazing memory. However, she did not learn much at school leading into the…
noticed an IQ difference between the children. After a few a years of teaching she gave…
Greg finds a solution to his book problem - a roller bag. He is able to get to school fast, but there are a few dangers between home and school, such as an angry neighbour who's front lawn got ripped up as a result of a game Greg and Rowley played last winter and woods full of the Mingo kids, who are like wild animals. Mom notices Greg and Rowley have stopped hanging out and gives Greg some advice. Greg, after reading a hundred editions of Slumber Party Pals, he realizes that girl friendships and boy friendships are different. He then explains bad things about his lunch table like the five-second rule where…
Abraham Lincoln on 1 January 1863 signed The Emaciation Proclamation, it was aimed at freeing slaves but the Southern states were completely against this, as they needed someone to work on their land. The Southern States wanted status quo to continue and hence seceded from the Union. According to Rudyard Kipling it was the "White man's burden" to redeem the Black man's souls and to covert them, pagans, to Christianity. In reality the white men were merely traders. If any slave was found running to the north for freedom, the masters would find them, bind them and tortured them in and put them back on the field.…
When Danielle was in 1st grade, her elementary school chose a new method of teaching students how to read. Instead of the word “vase” being written on a flashcard, they wanted students to know what kind of A it was by writing “vās.” To her parents, it didn’t make sense. How would she would learn to spell if they spent the first two years of her education teaching her words spelled phonetically? As a result, her parents chose to homeschool. Because home schooling was so uncommon, the school didn’t know how to formally un-enroll her. After 60 days, they started getting voicemails about their truant daughter and paperwork declared that she was a 2nd grade drop-out!…
It all started when the science teacher, Ms. Baggio and said “there will be a science fair in a couple of weeks”. All the children started to think about topics. Milo, a seventh grader decided to do his report on the food chain. Milo went and adopted a chicken for his project. Milo has no friends because he just moved from California and was a science geek. He hoped by winning the science fair, he would find a friend that also like science. When Milo brought his chicken to school, everyone loved it. They all named it Henrietta. Milo thought that to name a project was stupid. By the end of the day, everyone got attached to Henrietta. However Milo thought that everyone knew what happens at the end of his project. When Henrietta would be fully grown, was going to serve her to the judges at the science fair. He warned everyone not to be connected to it, but everyone didn’t care what he had to say. Adam Lurie, was in grade 8 but grade 7 for science because he failed. He was also the captain for the Rangers hockey team. The team has a difficult start at the start of their season; 0-5 they were the worst in the league. A couple of days after Milo brought his chicken to School, Adam had to take care of her for the rest of the day. Walking home after school he remembered that he had a hockey game and didn’t have time to go home leave Henrietta. So they decided to make her the Mascot. After that day they started to win games w/ Henrietta. Ms. Baggio made a list to help Milo with his project. Her idea was to let people sign up and take turn to look after Henrietta on the weekends. Milo didn’t like this idea because he wants to study her for his project, not let people play with her. Then something horrible happened; Henrietta got a COLD!!!! IT WAS…
When Torey Hayden, a teacher for mentally challenged children, first sees Venus Fox, she has no idea of the problems troubling the young girl. Hayden quickly realizes that young Venus is completely unresponsive. She doesn’t talk, doesn’t listen, and won’t respond to anything Hayden tries. Surprisingly, however, an unintentional bump on the playground can cause Venus to go into a raving fit, screaming and crying. As the school year goes on, Hayden learns more about Venus’ problematic home life, past, and personality, and through understanding, begins to learn how to breakthrough to her.…
Finally, Gregory would always get embarrassed from his teacher. She had felt sorry for him and would put him on the spot. He thought he was doing the right things for his teacher. As a result she was making him do a lot of work. Like washing the blackboard he thought it was a good thing even though it really…
I observed Mr. Dave’s pre-k class at Montclair pre-school. I arrived at the classroom at 8:00 am to accessed the classroom as well to speak to Mr. Dave. We reviewed the day’s plan as I helped him clean up. While cleaning around the room I noticed how colorful the room was. There were: banners of letters and numbers hanging on the wall, as well as a large alphabet carpet on the floor for the kids to sit on, toys to play with and books to read. As the children arrived, they removed their belongings and placed them in the cubbies. Afterwards, they grabbed their name tags and set their lunchboxes on the lunchbox table. I played with the kids until class started at 9:00…
A tribute to my teacher... The galloping of horses picked up a dust Wow what a roar, no not my hungry stomach, you can trust!…
As a narrator, Sabrina is manipulative and condescending. She cannot take “no” for an answer, which shows childlike and spoiled behavior. Sabrina has absolutely no respect of her teacher, as she is blackmailing him,…