Meet Nine-Year-Old Drew Fraychineaud Schools in Motion 1
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Utbildningsradion – Over to You 2000/2001 Schools in Motion 1 Programnr: 01513/ra 6 Meet Nine-Year-Old Drew Fraychineaud Schools in Motion 1 Manus: Claes Nordenskiöld Producent: Claes Nordenskiöld Sändningsdatum: 17/4 2001 Programlängd: 9'34 Drew Fraychineaud: First I wake up sort of and watch a little TV for a little bit and then I eat a little. After that I go upstairs and get dressed completely, brush my teeth. Then, my Mom brushes my hair. Then I do school for about six hours. Speaker/Claes Nordenskiöld: Who takes you to school? DF: My Mom. Music: The Cure “Just Like Heaven” DF: Hi my name is Drew Fraychineaud. I live at 821 Ebony Drive, 93030 Oxnard California in America. Well, the people in my family – one of them is my Mom. My Dad is Derek Fraychineaud. My brother is Callen Fraychineaud. My sister, who is older than me is Rachel Fraychineaud. I'm nine years old. I'm in third grade. Right now we're on our way to my school. CN: Drew lives in Oxnard, just north of Los Angeles. He lives in a big house in a fairly new-built so called tract area. These tracts are common in the quickly growing suburbs of Southern California. Oxnard itself is growing very rapidly. It is now a city of close to 200,000 people and its former strawberry and broccoli fields are turning into hundreds and hundreds of single family homes. So what does Drew’s school day look like? Let’s get back in the car and find out. DF: My teacher's name is Theresa Adair. We call her Mrs. Adair. CN: Do you always ride in a car to school? DF: Yeah, I always ride in a car, never a bus. Unless we're going on a field trip or something I never go on a bus. CN: And you never walk to school? DF: No, I’ve never walked to school. Most people though get taken by their Moms and Dads in cars. But others do walk and they're like ... see these houses over here? They walk from here to the school. Yeah, some people bike ride, but none of my classmates. Some get taken by the bus. But mainly it's car. 1 Utbildningsradion – Over to You 2000/2001 Schools in Motion 1 Programnr: 01513/ra 6 Music: The Cure “Just like Heaven” CN: Drew’s classmates have a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds and many people who live in Oxnard have Mexican-American roots. But it is basically a middle-class school. School systems and educational ideas and methods vary greatly in the United States. They can be as different as night and day even from one school district to the next within a large state like California, and between states like California and Kentucky – school laws and regulations may differ profoundly. But let’s get back to Drew. First we’ll meet his teacher, Theresa Adair, to hear how she views Drew, and then step right into her classroom, listen in on a lesson, and talk to Drew and some of his friends. Theresa Adair: Well Drew is very very bright – has a very high IQ. His strengths are vocabulary and reading comprehension – way above grade level in both of those areas. Doesn't apply it as well in his writing skills. But conceptually he has a tendency to grasp concepts very quickly in Math. And he has a tendency to be careless with small motor, art projects, writing his ideas down because I think that his concepts are so far ahead he doesn't want his body slowing him down and he doesn't want to be bothered. CN: Do you have the same subjects usually every day at the same hour? DF: Yeah, we sort of, yeah we do. We have Math around 9:30 probably -yeah around 9.30. CN: So what are the subjects? DF: First we do the … all the stuff like lunch count and everything, then Math. Recess for about ten minutes after that. If not all of us are done, we do a little more Math – like if not all of us are done with that, the rest do something else. CN: What about after lunch? DF: After lunch we read a little while. Then we get ourselves into homework and everything like that. Then that's practically it for the Earlybirds. Yeah, that's it for the Earlybirds till one o'clock. CN: The class is divided into the Earlybirds and the Latebirds. This way Theresa Adair meets half the class for one lesson in the morning, and the other half in the afternoon when the Earlybirds have gone home. As far as lunch, the children have a choice of either bringing a lunch bag from home or buying food in the cafeteria. But they all eat together in the lunchroom. CN: What kind of food do they have in the cafeteria? Girl: It's cheese pizza, salad and corn and bread. Boy: And sometimes it's chicken McNuggets. 2 Utbildningsradion – Over to You 2000/2001 Schools in Motion 1 Programnr: 01513/ra 6 CN: Can you choose whatever you want to buy? Girl: No, you don't have to get everything. You don't have to get everything that's there but you have to get something. You don't have a choice. CN: How much does it cost? Girl: It costs a dollar fifty. And they have breakfast in the morning but a lot of people don't buy the breakfast. Music: The Cure “Just like Heaven” CN: One important thing that all the kids in Drew’s class want to explain is their system of monitors. A number of students have specific assignments each week. CN: What's your name? Jennifer: Jennifer CN: And what are all these jobs here? J: Well, like it will say Homework Stamper and then it'll say like Charlie and Door Manager is Alicia. Like she'll hold the door when we go out and she's first in line. CN: What is really a homework stamper though? J: A homework stamper is like you do your homework and if you do your homework you get stamped on a folder. And then at the end, like at Friday you get to watch a movie and you get to have a sucker if you got all your stamps for the whole week. CN: Do most people get all the stamps? J: Some people don't. Some people like they'll forget to turn in their homework. Lunch Count is José and he comes up and tells us like if you're buying a hot lunch, raise your hand. And then he goes to give it to the lunch lady. And Paper-Passer is Brooke and she gets to pick three friends sometimes to help her to like pass out papers for what we're doing. And, Joshua is the Collector and he'll collect all the stuff when we're done like at the end of the day sometimes. And I'm the Calendar – Jennifer and like, I’ll remind the teacher to do stuff. Like if we have computer-lab or something to do. CN: So everyone wants these jobs? J: Yeah. CN: OK, thanks a lot. J: Uh huh. DF: The stamper today is Charlie. CN: Oh, he is ... DF: He's coming around now. If we get all stamps we get to have principal's recess. Principal's recess is kind of like a two bell one. Like there's ... 3 Utbildningsradion – Over to You 2000/2001 Schools in Motion 1 Programnr: 01513/ra 6 CN: Double. DF: Yeah kind of like a double recess. That's on Friday only, but still. TA: We did, remember? Does anybody remember what we call these two numbers? We did something called a factor tree. This is a digit. This is a two-digit number. This is a one-digit number. Kids: Oh, that thing, what's it called? I forgot what it's called. TA: You forgot what it's called. Do you know what we're talking about? Kid: An eqclation or something. TA: An equation. This is an equation, very good. Why do we know this is an equation? Drew. CN: These kids all love school and the give-and-take, questions-and- answer atmosphere that Thersea Adair creates – but recess, the break you get to spend out on the playground, is important. And since it always seems to be T-shirt-weather in Southern California, a double recess like Drew talked about, can be enough of an incentive to get kids to do all their homework ... Music: The Cure “Just Like Heaven” 4 Utbildningsradion – Over to You 2000/2001 Schools in Motion 2 Programnr: 01513/ra 7 Third Grade Teacher Theresa Adair Schools in Motion 2 Manus: Claes Nordenskiöld Producent: Claes Nordenskiöld Sändningsdatum: 24/4 2001 Programlängd: 8'28 Music: Tori Amos “Lust” Kid: Azul! Kid: Very azul! Theresa Adair: Ah si, mucho azul! Speaker/Claes Nordenskiöld: Theresa Adair has been teaching for more than twenty years, and in her third grade class in Oxnard, California, she is adding a little bit of Spanish to the curriculum. Kids: Oh, verde! My shirt. TA: Verde? Ah! Éste es verde. TA: My name is Theresa Adair. This is Ritchen School. We're in Oxnard Elementary School District. We have a third grade class, downsized to twenty kids this year. This is the first year we've had a small group. CN: Have you been teaching in California the whole time? A: Yeah, I've been teaching in California.