Tangelo Park Elementary

I had the chance to visit with a kindergarten and a third grade class. In the kindergarten class it was kind of crazy. The students wanted to play more than they wanted to learn. Kindergarten is the grade where students learn all their basic steps and gain that first experience of what school is like. In the third grade class, it seemed like it was faster paced than the kindergarten class. Students are more aware of what is expected of them and follow procedures in a different way. While I was helping in this third grade class, there was one student who really stuck out to me. At first, I was amazed at how he was always right on top of everything and how he always wanted to help. Then during writing time, I noticed that he wasn’t doing his work. The teacher then told me that he did not know how to write words into sentences. I could not understand how a student could be in the third grade and not know how to write words into sentences. This really amazed me; the student was smart enough to write but just did not know how. Seeing this third grade class and that student just made me want to teach even more.