Sentences with phrase «at middle school kids»

Today we take a look at the eWonderPad an interactive learning device and Tablet PC aimed at middle school kids!

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There was no better way to become a popular kid in school or to accomplish middle - class family peace and happiness than an afternoon at McDonald's.

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.

Don't pay any attention to «pervert alert» — it's a bitchy little troll that wanders in every so often when the middle school kids are bored and get extra comp time at the library.

On another local level, try to find the time to become a Big Brother or Big Sister, or volunteer at an elementary or middle school to make sure kids have a good, reliable influence in their lives.

He settled into a desk and felt right at home with the awestruck middle school kids.

The drivers start to arrive in the middle of the afternoon, lining up according to racing class: motorcycles and hot rods towed in on trailers on one side, street - legal sports cars in the middle, and, at the very far end of the pit, a couple lines of high school kids flanked on one side by black and white patrol cars.

In the meantime, says his volleyball coach Lou Panzella, Marcus will be the same friendly kid he first saw play as an eighth grader at Black Diamond middle school.

To meet these goals, the plan is to continue to build a strong off - season club (Freestyle, Greco - Roman, and SCWAY Collegiate style) at the kids, middle school, and high school levels.

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.

I mean, it had started harmlessly enough — a few kids with Princeton shirts in middle school, rumors of summer camps at Duke — but by the time senior year rolled around, competition was so fierce that people didn't even talk about where they were applying.

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.

Officials also noted that fewer kids were buying lunch at Glen Crest Middle 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.

while far from conclusive, has raised alarm bells among some in the youth sports community and prompted at least one leading concussion expert, Dr. Robert Cantu, MomsTeam's concussion expert emeritus, to recently recommend that kids not play such sports until middle or high school, at least under current rules.

And my bet — I could be wrong, but this is my bet — is if we start with kids very early, and we provide them with the kind of intense and continuous academic rigor and support that they need, then when they get to the middle school and high school level, we're not going to need those superhuman strategies at all.»

To me, the solution to the attrition issue, whether it's at a KIPP middle school or the Promise Academy middle school, is the Harlem Children's Zone's «conveyor belt» model, which provides continuous, high - quality early - childhood and elementary education to precisely those «disengaged families and students,» so that when those children arrive in middle school, they won't have the kind of difficulty doing demanding work as did the kids who left the Bay Area KIPP schools or who underperformed at the Promise Academy middle school in its first few years.

But when viewed against the entire array of what's served by the district — the amount of processed, prepackaged food, the predominance of «kid food» like chicken nuggets and hamburgers, the sub-par «a la carte» offerings (especially at the middle and high school levels)-- these improvements don't seem terribly significant.

(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.)

Naomi genuinely enjoys her time at home with her kids and adores being together with her middle school teacher husband, Brian.

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

Warren — I spend a lot of time at a middle school where most kids are free range because their parents are working two and three jobs.

Kids are up and down because they have nightmares, they wake up to use the bathroom and can't fall back asleep, they think there's a monster in their closet, they remembered they had something super important to tell me at 2 am while I was in the middle of REM sleep (like what snack their friend shared with them at school).

Work full - time and have raised my kids in the middle of it, cleaned, cooked, been the team mom, volunteered at the schools, etc..

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.

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.

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).

The program, called PARK Kids, is aimed at providing elementary and middle school students with structured programs that offer more than traditional park fare, such as basketball or track.

In response to a recent sampling event held at Orchard Park Middle School by HUMAN operator partners NFL player Jon Corto and his wife, Jen, reporter and doctor Peter Ostrow said of HUMAN's machines: ``... reading that LCD screen may encourage the kids to start reading labels, then they'll realize that the snacks they enjoy don't have to be loaded with fats, processed foods, and sugar.

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

Others show Long Island's Democratic national committeeman Robert Zimmerman of Great Neck sent an email praising a DNC spokesman, and Jay Jacobs, the Nassau County Democratic chairman, asked for White House tours for his family and, separately, for about 60 middle - school kids and staff at his camp.

When dropping off their kids at the front parking lot next week, New Paltz Middle School parents can expect one - way

The reference was to the Department of Education's plan to reserve 25 percent of seats at 17 middle schools for kids who score below grade level on state exams.

Already, at 34 minutes per log - in, our kids are doing more science on Whyville than they're doing in middle school.

It turns out that for most major scientific concepts, kids come into the classroom — even in middle school — with a whole set of beliefs that are commonly at odds with what scientists, and their science teachers, know to be true.»

Dishman and colleagues at the University of South Carolina are now looking at ways to help kids identify with exercise at a younger age, so that by the time they reach middle school they are more likely to identify as someone who exercises.

About 50 percent of high school students have access to salad bars at schools, 39 percent of middle school kids and 31 percent of elementary school children.

Sputnik was launched in October, 1957; a year later, I became a «Sputnik Kid» who was brought daily to the high school in the early morning, where I took a special algebra class, before spending the rest of the day at my middle school.

Dr. R. Stephen Green, Superintendent of the Dekalb County, Georgia School District, engaged in «experiential learning» when he joined students at Druid Hills Middle School on May 17th for a yoga class led by Grounded Kids Yoga / Atlanta Yoga Movement instructor Cheryl Crawford.

Imagine «Mean Girls» for the soccer mom set, and you've got some idea of the horrors that await Amy every time she drops off her two kids at McKinley Middle School, an institution ruled by the iron fist of PTA president Gwendolyn James (Christina Applegate).

From its inception, Citizen Schools has focused on kids in sixth, seventh, and particularly eighth grade because, as Schwarz suggests about middle school's «capstone year,» intervention at this point is most likely «to prevent kids from voting with their feet and dropping out later on.»

Following a decade spent teaching middle school at several progressive schools, Cerruti says he became intrigued by research, particularly uncovering new ideas about education and how kids think.

The bus can hold 25 kids at a time and has served about 5,000 students at the district's elementary and middle schools, as well as in neighboring districts in the county.

«The one quality I try to find is a teacher who will be a «Kid magnet,»» says Steven Podd, principal at Islip (N.Y.) Middle School.

I love the structured chaos of the middle school mind, the challenges of teaching kids at such a pivotal and awkward age, and the satisfaction of being a part of their journey toward independence.

«Kids want to do a project that's real and engaging,» says Donna Cole, a middle school science teacher at Edison Elementary School, in Bow, Washington, who uses a CIESE curriculum about earthquakes and plate tectonics called Musical Pschool science teacher at Edison Elementary School, in Bow, Washington, who uses a CIESE curriculum about earthquakes and plate tectonics called Musical PSchool, in Bow, Washington, who uses a CIESE curriculum about earthquakes and plate tectonics called Musical Plates.

39 School distributes backpacks of food to hungry kids; middle - schoolers overuse of energy drinks concerns teachers; student leaders can discourage peers from smoking; at - risk kids sent to time - in» to exercise.

If the climate allows, consider letting kids in mobile classrooms eat outdoors for lunch, either at cafe or picnic tables (following the example of Loggers» Run Middle School, mentioned above) or on blankets.

It takes time to help kids at the middle school age work through tricky social situations and scenarios.

How to Raise More Grateful Children (Wall Street Journal) «In some communities, specifically among the white middle and upper - middle class, there's good reason to believe that kids are less grateful than in the past,» says psychologist Richard Weissbourd, faculty director of the Making Caring Common initiative at Harvard's Graduate School of Education.