Sentences with phrase «8th grade kid»

I remember the first day in 2008 that Justin, a nervous 8th grade kid, came to check out the Met Sacramento High School with his parents to decide if it would be a good match.

Not exact matches

He called you by your last name (a practice I use to this day), he had a way of instilling fear into kids who would goof - off and cause distractions in other classes (a practice I was very much unable to duplicate during my one - year stint as an 8th - grade English teacher), and you had to run the gauntlet of sentence - diagramming grammar, which advanced to a pretty complex level, before the more «cool - teacher» aspects of Mr. Pacilio were unveiled — and even then, the tests on those rock songs were no joke!

Camp is open to kids entering 1st grade thru 8th grade.

And the Giants are led by some kid's dorky brother and the Titans are an 8th grade football team, not the second order of divine beings.

I am biased, being an educator in a public school (high school), but I have also met some wonderful kids who were homeschooled until 8th grade.

Family: Husband Michael Hamra, kids Melanie Robertson, 13, 8th grade, Brooke Robertson, 11, 7th grade, Max Robertson, 9, 4th grade; Buddy, a 2 - year - old rescue Retriever mix

with a larger jar it should suck the egg down into the bottom of it - did this with my kids in 8th grade science class and it never ceases to amaze them (me too)

«I was in 8th grade then and came from a classroom of 50 kids back in the city.

The classic study here is the Seligman - Duckworth one in Pennsylvania where kids at 14, at the beginning of their 8th grade, were given both an IQ test and ranked on a self - control measure.

And much to the surprise of the local establishment, these folks could actually read a chart showing 80 percent failure rates for African American kids in 3rd and 8th grade math and English.

More than 4,200 kids who were in 8th grade or lower took the College Board's Advanced Placement (AP) exams in 2010; 22 percent of them scored a five, the highest possible score.

Kids from kindergarten to 8th grade clean up after themselves.

Districts that have seen test scores increase for elementary - age children see those same kids» scores fall in 8th grade.

«Imagine if you're in a K — 8 school, you have 900 kids across nine grades, and one out of every ten 6th to 8th graders is making trouble.

Rochester Academy Charter School (RACS) 8th grade English teacher Mary Ellen Stacklyn hated school when she was a kid and said she really struggled.

Curriculum with serious substance sparks kids» imagination from pre-K all the way through 8th grade.

In my 30 + years as a school SLP and 3 kids go through the public school system (to 8th grade), the first thing to note is that truly «gifted» students are few and far between.

Seabury is the only independent school in the South Puget Sound area with programs specifically designed for gifted kids in pre-k through 8th grade.

An 8th grade teacher in Avon dealing with a class that averages under.25 for the social promotion Index can't be compared with a teacher in high poverty area with kids with a 4.5 on the Social Promotion index — indicating they were socially promoted 4.5 times out of 6.

Kids from pre-K to 8th grade can practice math skills recommended by the Common Core State Standards in exciting game formats.

Natasha Megie - Maddrey, parent to two current KIPP students, one who attended KIPP from 5th through 8th grade, and a 2nd grader she hopes will attend KIPP in the future, wrote, «The earlier kids start at KIPP, the better off they will be.

So the high overall test results in 8th grade only accounted for 70 % of the kids that stayed at the school - those students that took the standard CMT in math in both grade 5 and grade 8 at Amistad Academy.

These show that American kids in schools where less than 10 percent of students are low income score very well — best in the world, in fact, in 4th grade math and 8th grade math and science.

The cycle of teaching, learning and engaging continues until the afternoon bell rings, signaling the end of the regular classroom day and the beginning of both the LA's Best Afterschool program for K - 5 students and YPI / 21st Century Kids enrichment classes for middle school (6th - 8th grade) students.

8th grade inventor, Natalie Isabelle Cailean Edwards is the N.I.C.E. girl who finishes last with the kids in school.

Anyway my first book on my kindle was Ender's Game, which was a book I read as a kid in the 8th grade and still enjoy to this day.

When Mario Party DS came out in November 2007, I was a 13 year old kid in 8th grade.

You are a black kid interested in running for 8th grade president?

Schroeder found out about the Wait Until 8th pledge, which was started last year by a mother in Texas, that asks parents to sign up 10 families in their kid's grade level who will postpone giving them a smartphone until 8th grade.

To better understand what makes kids popular, researchers measured 144 3rd through 8th grade students» prosocial behaviors (i.e., doing good things for others) and physical / verbal aggression.

FIT for Kids Food System Advocacy Curriculum: Youth (grades 7th and 8th) and teens will receive this curriculum.