Blog Entry #7

The evidence I see of the students in my service learning getting the standards met is in the things Mrs. Wilcox has me help out with.  For instance, I am helping kids with their counting, writing numbers, and recognizing numbers.  I know that they are supposed to be able to count to 100 by the end of the year.  I am helping them reach that goal by assisting them when they are having troubles with the numbers.  Numbers seem to be taking the most emphasis.  The second most would be writing. Third most would be letter names and sounds.  This may vary a little though as I am only in there during a certain time of the day and I might just see their numbers the most because its their math time.

The subject that seems to be put to the side most often is science.  I would say that is what I see the least amount of.  I have seen them learn about flowers and how they grow, and their five senses, but other than that I have not seen very much emphasis put on science or anything to do with science.  This could be because they don't start testing on science yet. I am not sure how Mrs. Wilcox specifically feels about standards and standardized testing because I have not asked her.  I would say, she is definitely putting in her best effort to teach to the standards by what she seems to be putting emphasis on.  She loves her job and always has good energy when teaching so as far as I know she is fine teaching to the standards and helping kids to learn so that they can meet them to the best of their ability.