Our Virtual Class

1. Our Virtual Class Methods of Social Studies

3. John Loves: Watching football, drawing, swinging. Favorite subjects: PE, Music. Home: English speaking, 2 parents, middle-class. Personal: Biracial, delayed speech, IQ 65, low vision, emergent reader.

4. Ashley Loves: Reading, soccer, Hannah Montana. Favorite subjects: Reading, Social Studies. Home: Family Shelter, English-speaking, 2 parents. Personal: Caucasian, IQ 130, math reasoning disability, reads 3 grade levels above.

5. Steven Loves:SpongeBob, basketball, zoo. Favorite subjects: Reading, Art. Home: English speaking, single mom & grandparents, middle-class. Personal: Caucasian, Down Syndrome, IQ 45, low muscle tone, 2nd grade reading level.

6. Kirsten Loves: Math, choir, cats, history. Favorite subjects: Math, Social Studies. Home: English speaking, 2 parents, upper-class. Personal: African American, IQ 115, reading above grade level .

7. Mike Loves: Camping, NASCAR, wheelchair basketball, video games. Favorite subjects: PE, science. Home: English speaking, single dad, live-in caregiver, middle class. Personal: Caucasian, IQ 113, Cerebral Palsy, reading at grade level.

8. Fatima Loves: dancing, stuffed animals, talking on the phone. Favorite subjects: Science, Reading Home: Bilingual- English/Arabic, 2 parents + extended family, working class. Personal: Arab-American, IQ unknown, reading at grade level.

9. Sarum Loves: Video games, playing at the park, Transformers. Favorite subjects: Math, Science. Home: Bilingual- Farsi/English, 2 parents, middle class. Personal: Immigrant from Iran, Lead poisoning when little, reading below grade level.

10. Tyra Loves: Watch TV, playing dress-up, making up plays. Favorite subjects: Drama, writing. Home: Grandma, public aid, English speaking. Personal: African American, learning disability: oral expression and written expression, ADHD.

11. Sunil Loves: Play-dough, animals, storytelling. Favorite subjects: Art, Music. Home: Adoptive family, English speaking, upper middle class. Personal: Blind, recently adopted from India, Hindi speaking, no schooling while in India.

12. Tanya Loves: Music, dancing, fashion design. Favorite subjects: Music, Language Arts. Home: 2 parents and extended family, working class, Spanish speaking. Personal: Latina, bilingual- Spanish/English, takes care of younger siblings, reading at grade level, lack of homework completion, multiple absences/tardies.

13. Juan Loves: Reading, soccer, making comics, WWII Favorite subjects: Language arts, Math. Home: single mom, English/Spanish speaking, low income. Personal: Latino, gifted pull-out services, migrant worker family, has Asperger Syndrome with perseveration on World Wars.

14. Isabella Loves: Playing with dolls, being a teacher’s helper, playing with friends. Favorite subjects: Social Studies, Science. Home: 2 parents, middle class, English speaking, parents only completed 3rd grade. Personal: Latina, slow learner, juvenile diabetes.

15. Chung Phe Loves: Video games, track, photography. Favorite subjects: Reading, PE. Home: 2 parents, working class, parents well educated in native Vietnam, Multilingual household- Vietnamese/English/ASL. Personal: IQ 117, hearing disability- wears hearing aids in both ears, receives speech services, reading below grade level.

16. Tao Loves: Geography, cooking, recycling and environmental concerns. Favorite subjects: Social Studies, Science. Home: Single mom & grandma,working class, Household speaks Fuzhou and adults are illiterate. Personal: Bilingual- Fuzhou/English, reading on grade level.

17. Shaquille Loves: Learning, soccer, snow. Favorite school subjects: Home: Personal: Sudanese refugee,

18. Carmela Loves: Modeling, acting, gardening. Favorite subjects: Science, PE. Home: 2 parents, upper class, parents well educated, political refugees from Columbia, Bilingual household- Spanish/English Personal: Latina, Bilingual, IQ 100, reading above grade level.

19. Sam Loves: Writing, skateboarding, air-soft guns. Favorite subjects: English, PE. Home: 2 parents, middle class, English speaking. Personal: History of discipline issues in school, ADHD- treated with medication, IQ 100, reading at grade level.

20. Cara Loves: Animals, playing with friends, drawing. Favorite subjects: Art, Science. Home: 2 parents, middle class, 3 foster children in home, English speaking, Personal: IQ 120, reading at grade level, often comes to school very tired.

21. Miguel Loves: Earning money, cactus collecting, bike riding. Favorite subjects: Math, Science. Home: 2 parents, Trilingual-Nahuatl/Spanish/English, middle class. Personal: Trilingual, Latino, reading at grade level.

22. Sarah Loves: Birds, Barbies, Polly Pockets. Favorite subjects: Reading, Writing. Home: Single mom, working class, English speaking. Personal: Speaks with a stutter, Reading at grade level.

23. Jason Loves: Skateboarding, woodcarving, baseball. Favorite school subjects: PE, Math. Home: 2 parents, middle class, practicing Jehovah’s Witnesses. Personal: Reading above grade level, IQ unknown but teachers’ report student is gifted.

24. Maria Loves: Hello Kitty, Build-a-Bear, Hopscotch. Favorite subjects: PE, Social Studies. Home: 2 parents, English speaking, middle class. Personal: Latina, reading at grade level, very shy.

25. Phong Loves: Playing doctor, origami, computers. Favorite subjects: Science, Art. Home: 2 parents, Bilingual- Vietnamese/English, working class. Personal: IQ 109, reading above grade level, bilingual, impulsive.

26. Taylor Loves: Math, lollipops, boys. Favorite subjects: Math, Science. Home: 2 parents, working class, English speaking. Personal: Reading at grade level, very social to the point of being a class distraction.

27. Dan Loves: Acting, the circus, boating. Favorite subjects: Reading, Social Studies. Home: 2 parents and daily caretaker, middle class, English speaking. Personal: Uses a wheelchair due to Muscular Dystrophy, weak respiratory system, mild learning disability in reading comprehension, IQ 100, reading below grade level.