I am placed in a Kindergarten
classroom at Discovery Elementary in Williamston. My classroom has nineteen
students with one teacher and one paraprofessional in the room on a daily
basis. There are eleven boys and eight girls. The students are at a variety of
levels. While a couple test very high and most of the curriculum comes very
easily to them, others need additional support and one-on-one assistance. There
is one student in the class who has cerebral palsy, so the paraprofessional is
there to give him more individualized support. Four of the students are in an
intervention program, and get pulled out of the classroom for a half hour every
morning for additional, individualized instruction. The students also show
different personalities in their social communication. Some students are
comfortable conversing while others avoid communication.
The
classroom is fairly large. There are tables set up in a “U” shape for their
desks, with the teacher’s desk at the front. There are decorations and
resources all over the classroom. For example, there is a wall with all of the
sight words they have learned on it. There are numerous centers: a “library”
filled with a variety of genres, a kitchen area, puzzle area, creation station,
block area, writing area, etc. The teacher utilizes the SMART board and an iPad
as well.
There
are many activities done each day, but not necessarily in the same order each
day. Some activities include: answering the “question of the day”, daily
calendar, a sixty minute math block, a ninety minute literacy block, science,
recess, reading groups, and their daily specials (art, computer class, music,
etc.).
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