Sentences with phrase «as kindergartners»

For the first time this year, state officials are asking Indiana kindergarteners to meet the same academic standards as kindergartners across much of the nation, from Hawaii to Kentucky.

Children who live in a small Carrollton neighborhood will still get automatic admission to Lusher Charter School next year, but only if they enter as kindergartners, based on a policy the board voted Saturday to extend to the 2011 - 2012 school year.

As kindergartners, these children are in the process of becoming literate — emerging as young readers and writers (Sulzby, 1990).

Nearly every fall, students as young as kindergartners can be seen on the streets of Harlem registering voters; they are unmistakable in their distinctive bright yellow T - shirts with the slogan «I can't vote, but you can!»

During the home - run - hitting contest at the All - Star Game, which most players treated as kindergartners would recess, Martinez watched Mark McGwire closely.

If you are looking for something to do this week to celebrate the «ooky, spooky» Halloween (as my kindergartner says)-- here are a few of my Halloween favorites.

They shouldn't let a written standardized test in the same room as a kindergartner or a first grader!

«One of Wyman's first Fast ForWord students started the program as a kindergartner,» she said.

Upon moving to Indiana from Rhode Island as a kindergartner, I never expected to routinely partake in tornado drills.

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They told stories of a vibrant young woman who loved to play jokes and have fun with friends; of a girl who, as a first - grader, took the hand of a frightened kindergartner who was clinging to her mother and said, «I'll take care of it from here.»

As if the NCAA wasn't a bad enough organization, one of their biggest punishments was thought up by a kindergartner.

There, she developed and taught a language enrichment program for all kindergartners in the district and provided speech and language therapy for the two special education classes, as well as serving those students from kindergarten to sixth grade having articulation, fluency, voice, cleft palate, hearing impairment and language delays.

She will likely begin day dreaming about what he will look like as a baby, and perhaps as a little boy, a kindergartner, or even teenager, fantasizing that he has the ideal traits she chooses.

As the start of the school year approaches, have you seen your first grader go into meltdown mode at the mention of school, or watched your soon - to - be kindergartner regress back to baby talking and thumb sucking?

As many parents of kindergartners know, these declarations of independence can often result in a battle of wills.

As part of my kindergartner's Waldorf - inspired Oak Meadow homeschool curriculum, we recently made leaf prints.

Frustrating as it may be, it's normal for kindergartners to test adult guidelines and expectations.

In New Orleans, chef April Neujean conducts fruit and vegetable tastings with her kindergartners - one for each letter of the alphabet - as they learn their ABCs (Apples, Bananas, Carrots, Daikon radishes).

A kindergartner can explain what you do with common objects, talk in complex sentences that often run together, and use past, present, and future tenses of verbs, such as «sit,» «sitting,» «sits,» «sat,» and «will sit.»

Craft time not only exercises kindergartners» creativity and imagination, but helps them sharpen motor skills and critical thinking as well.

I nursed each of mine as long as I could but didn't go 4 years in between kids to continue to nurse a kindergartner and I don't exactly have the time to snuggle each of my children until they fall asleep when they are in different rooms.

A preschooler or kindergartner who has outgrown napping needs a solid 10 to 13 hours of sleep each night, an amount that will gradually decrease as he gets older.

Follow along with her life as a working mom of Kindergartners - to - be at her blog.

Kindergartners are trying to nail down fundamentals such as the alphabet and counting.

Hoping to shift the focus away from controversy and onto academics, Success Academy Charter Schools intends to start posting its lesson plans online this summer, going so far as to specify what type of snail is the best for kindergartners» science experiments.

West Genesee doesn't have the extras that wealthier Downstate districts enjoy, such as Long Island's Syosset schools, where kindergartners learn Russian and high schoolers can be trained by Metropolitan Opera coaches.

As I read a book to a kindergartner that day, I could only imagine what gains could be made at Schuyler if, instead of threats and punishments, the state provided help and support to students, parents and educators.

Kindergartners at Unity Drive Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten Center in Centereach, on their first day of school on Sept. 6, 2016, learned to walk in single file and to hold onto the railing as they go up the stairs.

In the process, I have learned from the children — kindergartners through high school students — as well as their teachers.

Not only has this skirt survived the dust of India, but I also wear it to work (I substitute teach) and it tends to be used as a Kleenex by kindergartners from time - to - time.

While her eldest daughter Emmy (Maddie Dixon - Poirier) is as precocious and as inquisitive as they come, kindergartner Jonah (Asher Miles Fallica) might have special needs as he frequently disrupts class and needs his skin «brushed» every morning before he can come downstairs for breakfast.

The project will follow three seemingly normal mothers of kindergartners as they turn toward murder.

A government study is taking a close look at kindergartners as they start school and will track them through their primary grades so the nation's schools can better meet their diverse needs.

As a Teach For America corps member, I taught up to 32 kindergartners, without recess, in a rat - infested South Bronx basement.

As my own kindergartner now sees the end of his 10th grade year in sight, I can say that the first year of school is a milestone that arrives and passes far too quickly.

In fact, having emotionally close relationships with child - care providers as a toddler has been linked with more positive social behavior and more complex play later as a preschooler.3 Kindergartners with close teacher relationships have been shown to be more engaged in classroom activities, have better attitudes about school, and demonstrate better academic performance.4 Thus, teacher - child relationships appear to be an important part of children's social and academic success in school.

In other words, Krueger and Zhu also now report consistently positive results for African - Americans, regardless of how ethnicity is defined, even when kindergartners are included in the analysis - as long as baseline scores (and only baseline scores) are taken into account in the statistical estimation of programmatic effects.

In other words, even if one includes kindergartners in the study, as Krueger and Zhu recommend, the essentials of our original finding remain intact.

Holding up stiff cardboard figures, Miriam Kupalian runs her kindergartners through a quick review of shapes, such as the hexagon and the trapezoid.

Though Bookout can't speak as a result of a stroke, he points and smiles with delight as he follows these kindergartners to the door of their classroom, here in the nursing home.

Kindergartners can be identified as «at risk» for reading problems by assessing their phonemic awareness.

Allen's kindergartners also keep a word wall page in their writing folders, adding to the page as the year progresses.

Kindergartners will read about traditional dances from different countries as they learn to compare groups.

As E.D. Hirsch has written, «General knowledge is... the best single predictor of later academic achievement among preschoolers and kindergartners, as has been shown by analyses of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey — Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS - K1992)» (http://educationnext.org/primer-on-success/As E.D. Hirsch has written, «General knowledge is... the best single predictor of later academic achievement among preschoolers and kindergartners, as has been shown by analyses of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey — Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS - K1992)» (http://educationnext.org/primer-on-success/as has been shown by analyses of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Survey — Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS - K1992)» (http://educationnext.org/primer-on-success/).

And the Northside Community School opens today, with four classes, six teachers, about 60 kindergartners and first - graders, and a board president who doubles as janitor.

Less than half of Maryland's kindergartners are ready to tackle the Common Core curriculum that's being rolled out in schools, state officials reported Tuesday.Forty - seven percent of the students demonstrated knowledge in academic subjects such as...

Stam gutted and amended S456 to require the state to award more Opportunity Scholarships (also known as school vouchers) to kindergartners and first graders, a move seen by some as a set up for the program's expansion down the road.

State leaders want to include more meaningful measurements along with test scores such as absenteeism among kindergartners, how many high school freshmen pass enough classes to be on track to graduate, and the share of high school graduates who go on to college.

In fact, the 80 kindergartners identified as needing math intervention in 2009 placed significantly below the first percentile nationally in math, nearly 3 standard deviations below the mean.

As a result of this project - based work, educators have the chance to not only teach kindergartners basic skills in math, reading and science, but to also present the opportunities to apply those skills in real - world settings.