I am volunteering for Ms. Keller’s kindergarten class at Pine Meadow Elementary. I am in their class from 10:15 to 11:25 in the morning. This is when the kindergarteners are finishing up snack and story time, doing two daily 5 centers, working on their journals, and then heading out to recess. There are 18 kids in the class. The majority of the kindergarteners are 5 years old. A few are 6 years old. Ms. Keller’s room is filled with posters. There are a lot of owls seen throughout the room. Everything is labeled with kid’s names, sight words, letters, or numbers. There are many books, cubbies, and tables. Most items around the room are color-coded. The room has a sink next to the in-the-zone tickets and the door. Overall, the room is very organized …show more content…
He is clearly very energetic. Skinner’s theory of positive reinforcement is seen when two of the kids go to another teacher’s room to get Ipads for their class. These two kindergarteners are rewarded with an in-the-zone ticket. They continually repeat this task everyday to collect another ticket. The tickets give them a chance to win a prize. Piaget’s concrete operational period stage is for seven to eleven year olds, but I have seen the kindergarteners easily classify objects into categories, which is a characteristic of that stage. I observed this when the children had to circle the lowercase letter and underline the uppercase letters. The majority of the class had no problem sorting the letters. I witness Gardner’s linguistic intelligence when the kindergarteners read at the orange read-to-self center and write at the green work-on-writing center. Gardner’s multiple intelligences theory also includes the musical intelligence. The kindergarteners watch and sing along to songs about the sight words they are learning. When they work on their worksheets with sight words, they sing the song quietly to themselves to remember the word and it’s spelling. Sternberg theorizes an analytical intelligence, which includes problem-solving