Sentences with phrase «for middle school kids»

I'll also be working on two books, one for middle school kids on resilience to disasters and another, for adults, on ways to navigate the next 50 years with the fewest regrets.

My third book on the environment, a project of The New York Times, was for middle school kids.

Once referred to as Scheherazade, she is known for her character driven, can't put down, page turning stories for middle school kids.

One student said, «It takes me ten minutes to figure out what song to play for the middle school kids.

«For primary school kids and for middle school kids and for high school kids and when you go to college, you get a grade.

Her iconic rainbow - ed animals and images were all the rage for middle school kids everywhere — and now, it's back!

Not exact matches

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

I had been competitively tracked from middle school to high school to college, and by going straight to law school I knew I would be competing at the same kinds of tests I'd been taking ever since I was a kid, but I could tell everyone that I was now doing it for the sake of becoming a professional adult.

The high schools battle each other to attract students and athletes from the Catholic elementary and middle schools for years before any of those kids will have the opportunity to don their colors in the Holy Bowl.

Larry Bird chose my high school to do his student teaching after the ISU Sycamores run to the NCAA championship game and several of us from orchestra kids got to shoot around with him at what would have been our fourth hour orchestra class which was delayed half an hour for one semester while the teacher had younger students from the new middle school built together with the high.

In middle school I had been placed in an accelerated algebra class with a dozen other kids under the assumption that we would all be able to thrive in advanced courses designed for students two years our senior.

For the average child (keeping in mind individual kids may be exceptions to these guidelines), an acceptable amount of homework per night is as follows: — Elementary school: approximately 10 minutes or so per grade level — Middle school: an hour or so — High School: 2 to 2-1/2 hours Any homework beyond these limits is no longer providing any advantage, and is probably cutting into those things that do provide advantages like adequate sleep and what we at Challenge Success call «PDF» — that is, play time, down time and familyschool: approximately 10 minutes or so per grade level — Middle school: an hour or so — High School: 2 to 2-1/2 hours Any homework beyond these limits is no longer providing any advantage, and is probably cutting into those things that do provide advantages like adequate sleep and what we at Challenge Success call «PDF» — that is, play time, down time and familyschool: an hour or so — High School: 2 to 2-1/2 hours Any homework beyond these limits is no longer providing any advantage, and is probably cutting into those things that do provide advantages like adequate sleep and what we at Challenge Success call «PDF» — that is, play time, down time and familySchool: 2 to 2-1/2 hours Any homework beyond these limits is no longer providing any advantage, and is probably cutting into those things that do provide advantages like adequate sleep and what we at Challenge Success call «PDF» — that is, play time, down time and family time.

Middle school can be awkward, heartbreaking, and discouraging — not only for kids but for moms too!

Using the tasting to introduce and build support for «envelop - pushing» school lunches will hopefully mean winning over even the pickiest elementary and middle school kids, said Coletta Hines - Newell, the district's food service director who also creates the recipes.

The American Pediatrics Association recommends just one hour per day outside of school time for elementary - age students and two hours for kids in middle school through high school.

When the new standards for more fruits and vegetables in school lunches were first implemented at the middle school where I worked at the time, there was an increase in kids who didn't want to eat all of their lunches.

program that lets kids and their adult caregivers learn about the park first hand by using fun, self - guided worksheets; the NewYork Historical Society, where she developed curriculum guides to help classroom teachers incorporate primary sources into their instruction; the American Museum of Natural History, where she developed a series of teacher guides for the Moveable Museum exhibits and several temporary museum exhibits; and MOUSE, a New York City based non-profit organization that works to train middle and high school students to initiate and manage technology help desks, where she developed curriculum and educational support materials for students, faculty advisors, and MOUSE trainers.

For many middle school kids, it's playing the game Minecraft.

«A lot of kids in middle school are struggling around that time thinking, oh, math and science aren't for me, especially girls,» says Kristen Vogt, museum manager of education and events.

Havelock Middle School has implemented an intermediary «Second Chance» breakfast program, served between 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m., for students who miss the 7 a.m. cafeteria meal; the school received a $ 1500 No Kid Hungry / Share Our Strength North Carolina state grant, intended to increase breakfast participation in scSchool has implemented an intermediary «Second Chance» breakfast program, served between 9:30 a.m. and 10 a.m., for students who miss the 7 a.m. cafeteria meal; the school received a $ 1500 No Kid Hungry / Share Our Strength North Carolina state grant, intended to increase breakfast participation in scschool received a $ 1500 No Kid Hungry / Share Our Strength North Carolina state grant, intended to increase breakfast participation in schools.

Oprah's website currently features this post, which provides appealing lunch box ideas for elementary, middle and high school kids.

I wonder if it has ever occurred to the middle class kids who are organizing these protests that while they have the luxury of saying no to school food, there are other kids who rely on it for a substantial part of their daily nutrition, and who are being put in the unpleasant position of having to choose between being cool [by joining everyone else in the boycott] and being hungry?

Other names for kids of this age group include preteens, middle schoolers, and tweeny (or tweenies).

For kids who are going to be first - timers for kindergarten, first grade, middle school or even high school, this can help them feel more comfortable with the new place and get a better idea of where to go once they're theFor kids who are going to be first - timers for kindergarten, first grade, middle school or even high school, this can help them feel more comfortable with the new place and get a better idea of where to go once they're thefor kindergarten, first grade, middle school or even high school, this can help them feel more comfortable with the new place and get a better idea of where to go once they're there.

The next highest risk is anytime kids enter a new school building for the first time, such as entering kindergarten, middle school, or high school.

(By definition, the recent middle - school project I write about in the book can't possibly be responsible for any recent change in college - graduation rates; the kids receiving character growth cards at KIPP Infinity are many years away from college.)

While it's currently the middle of summer, it's never too early to shop for your kid's back to school wardrobe....

ShareRamesh has been coaching field hockey at the local middle school for around 5 years, a while before we had kids.

The miniature and small backpacks are perfect for elementary school aged children, and the large backpacks are perfect for middle school aged kids and small high school kids.

And it's great for big kids too — toddlers, preschoolers, even our middle school neighbor loves playing in a batch of gak.

Stopping to take phone calls to chat with friends in the middle of school definitely doesn't work for the younger kids and their attention spans, nor can they really achieve what they need to without your full, undivided attention and support.

But for now my goals are more modest: just more freshly prepared food, more whole foods, fewer highly processed and chemically - preserved entrees, and a more varied menu, particularly at the middle and high school levels, so we don't teach our kids it's OK to eat pizza and burgers five days a week, week in and week out.

Once kids get into middle school and high school, the hour or two after school is the highest risk time for dangerous behaviors like substance abuse, because it's the largest chunk of time when kids are unmonitored.

Dr. Lori Rappaport: Yeah, you bring up a great thing because I think kids are resourced and middle school kids, responsible middle school students will come for an hour or two.

Like in France, with all elementary school kids (up to middle school) just being served what is on the menu for that day.

She became involved in Kesem because her mom was diagnosed with breast cancer when she was in middle school and knows how hard it is for a kid to grasp having a parent with cancer and wants to make sure no kid feels alone!

We talked about it over dinner tonight and my middle school son said again, kids take veggies because the lunch lady tells them, but nobody eats them... this is wrong for so many reasons.

Teaching your kids these lessons and setting these expectations for them for middle school means they will have time to master them by the time they hit high school.

All schools need do is follow the lead of Berkeley and other school districts that understand that tons of sugar can not be good for kids in the middle of an obesity epidemic.

For instance, when researchers tracked American middle and high school studies over 18 months, they found that kids who identified their parents as more authoritarian were more likely to reject their parents as legitimate authority figures.

Pick up kids from school, go on a middle school tour for my fourth grader (where my four - year - old complained for an hour about being bored) and then drop off both kids at dance.

We have 9 weeks of camp for elementary, middle and high - school aged kids and multiple levels.

There is a long two - hour lunch break in French schools, and while this makes the day longer (maybe too long) for the kids, on the other side, the children have a good break in the middle of the day to eat their lunch slowly and digest afterwards in the recess area (French law states that children must sit at the table for a minimum of 30 minutes).

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2012 was the most popular year for the name Isla, so your little one might go to school with some older kids who share her middle name.

«Only democrat not taking tons of money from the teachers union which is the largest single lobby to the democrats... if not for Cuomo, thousands of children of color and white middle class kids would have been forced out of the charter schools their parents fought hard to get their kids into,» she wrote.

De Blasio said the city got a «consistent funding line» from Albany for his pre-K initiative as well as after - school programming for middle school students, calling it a «victory» because 70,000 kids are going to pre-K and because the city doubled the number of middle school students in after - school programs.

He sounds like the kid in middle school you just wanted to punch for being so aggravating all the time.

We're making college tuition - free for middle - class families.My proposal offers free tuition at SUNY, CUNY schools — every kid deserves a shot.

But in a stark contrast to Cuomo's plan, Mayor de Blasio has sought to improve education by boosting social services, expanding universal prekindergarten and adding more after - school programs for middle - school kids.