English Language Learning Autobiography

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I was born and raised in Mexico City, I moved to Chicago when I was 13 years old. I left Mexico when I was in the 9th grade, and I was the number one out of about 300 students academically speaking. Math was my favorite subject, but when I moved to Chicago not knowing a word of English really affected my academic skills. I begin Kindergarten at the age of five, but before that my mother made sure I practice some basic math skills. For example, counting money, counting objects, practicing and memorizing time tables and playing games with the abacus. I believe playing games with the abacus is were all my math skills really begun. My mother one day just came home and gave it to me, and she said count the color beads they make tricks. So I begin counting the beads with her help then all by myself, and before I turned five years old I was solving math problems and grouping beads for multiplication purpose.…show more content…
Everyday my mom when my mother picked me up from school the teacher would share with her that I was too advance to be in Kindergarten. So she recommended my mother to talk to the school board and be tested for an appropriate grade placement. So my mother followed my teachers advised and soon enough I was getting tested in a classroom full of grown up and my mother. The results were for me to be placed in a first grade advance classroom at the age of five. I was in the classroom for less then a month, and then the teacher send my mother a note stating that my learning potential was not appropriate for classroom goals. On the letter she also shared that while she was trying to teach how to solve simple addition problems I was trying to add a three to five addition problems. Her recommendations to be moved to a second grade

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