Sentences with phrase «between reading to the kids»

So, I made it tonight between reading to the kids and Skyping with my brother.

Not exact matches

Once you begin to read [the Bible], if you're reading the prophets where they're talking about exchanging the poor for a pair of sandals, and what happens when you have a widening gap between the ruling wealthy elites and the poor masses who can't feed their kids, and how this is an affront to what it means to be human, if at that point you're like, «Well, is this inerrant?»

I encourage you to read the post, but also take a look at the comments section, where an interesting conversation is taking place about the possible unintended consequences of shifting subsidies around, and also some practical input from me and fellow school food blogger Ed Bruske about the critical difference between serving produce in school cafeterias and getting kids to actually eat it.

I stock a bin of activity options and place it between the kids in the car for easy access to favorite books, coloring pages, and small toys (a travel favorite is the Leapfrog Tag Reading System).

As you can see (if you were patient enough to read through my incessant anxiety) I am starting to consider the benefits of a larger spacing between kids.

Teaching reading to your kids is important, but how you teach them can mean the difference between success and failure.

With the second child, I did have an epidural, but I was on the verge of saying I didn't want it after all, because I seemed to be handling the contractions well, having read a lot about natural birth in the couple of years between kids.

You know, that age range in which you've read Haim Ginott and Faber and Mazlisch and Lawrence Cohen, and you can feel the connect between those theories and how you want to be parenting your child, but the kid is just simply too young to have the whole «talk about it» method work.

Usually, when we sit in the living room, I am on the couch between both kids either reading to them or watching TV with them or commenting on their sword - fighting moves; whatever we are doing I am engaged.

In - between homeschooling the kids I like to give the kids activities and sometimes some extra work books to work on... Read More

Teachers use read - alouds as well as poems, songs, and rhymes to teach topics across all subjects, and classrooms are filled with signs and labeled objects which help kids make connections between objects and words, and words and letters.

Right now I'm reading the classic, «What to Expect When You're Expecting,» but the pregnancy book that's been most useful in this new culture in which my hubby and I find ourselves was written by an American and is called «French Kids Don't Throw Food» — a very interesting cultural examination of the differences between French and North American attitudes towards having a baby and child - raising.

Here I spread the word about brilliant books for kids and young people, and to connect with others who are passionate about reading, stories, illustration, and all the things which can come between the covers of a book.

At the Family Dinner Project, you encourage kids and parents to draw explicit connections between dinner and reading.

«But by paying kids to read, we create an association between earning and learning.

It's the time for building forts made out of branches between the hours of nine and three, for meeting other kids down the block, for reading the books you want to read, and for vacations in far off lands or in campgrounds in your own backyard.

The second component is to have the school staff read my manual, A Revolutionary Guide to Reducing Aggression between Children, which explains what happens when adults make themselves responsible for stopping kids» fights, and teaches a less hysterical and more effective approach to the problem.

The proposed reforms, outside and inside schools — to reduce the test - score gap between whites and poor minorities; to help poor minority families increase their income through steady work at livable wages and then their children's test scores will improve; to establish research - proven reading programs for every single, poor, or minority child; to give each kid a laptop computer — are endless and uncertain in their outcomes.

There, fourth - graders reading Below Basic declined by 25 percentage points (from 69 percent to 44 percent) between 2002 and 2015, while the number of kids reading at Proficient and Advanced levels increased by 17 percentage points (from 10 percent to 27 percent).

But here's why I'm worried about leaving out the link between those subjects and reading comprehension: Even if we got rid of high - stakes reading tests tomorrow (which is unlikely to happen), people would still place a huge emphasis on teaching kids to read, especially in the early grades.

Between 2003 and 2011, the percentage of all fourth - graders reading Below Basic proficiency declined from 39 percent to 33 percent in 2011; the percentage of black students who were functionally illiterate declined from 60 percent to 51 percent during that period, while the percentage of poor and minority kids reading Below Basic declined from 54 percent to 48 percent.

Kids then spend the summer reading eight titles of their choice and return the completed journal to a Barnes & Noble store between May 15 and September 3 of this year to choose a free book from the titles featured on the back of the journal.

Outside of the recent research data by Scholastic and YouGov, parents are split between having their kids read e-books during their early years and some prefer to have them have print.

The Worst Class Trip Ever by Dave Barry Kids might not want to think about classes and field trips between the months of May and August, but they'll be laughing too hard to care while reading Pulitzer Prize winner Barry's hilarious novel about a school trip to the nation's capital.

When it comes to eBooks, the demographic difference between young and old readers is just as stark: according to a new study on digitalbookworld.com, more than half of U.S. kids are reading eBooks, which is more than double the proportion of adults who are e-reading.

«The partnership between Scholastic and educators has been a strong catalyst in inspiring new generations of book lovers, and we are thrilled to be a part of this effort to provide teachers and parents with an incredible new tool to meet kids where they are on the electronic devices they love and make reading even more fun.»

The group introduced themselves and talked about the power that comics had on them, writing for Young Adults, they discussed the differences between the bookstore and direct market for YA books, where to shelve books in stores and libraries, Adult readers of YA books, inspiring kids to read and write, how they decide what content is too adult for YA books and what backlash they've received and the digital market for YA books.

«The investigation into who is reading YA books began when we noticed a disparity between the number of YA e-books being purchased and the relatively low number of kids who claim to read e-books,» said Kelly Gallagher, Vice-President of Bowker Market Research.

«A parent would feel very comfortable handing that to a kid to read,» Lee agreed, when I asked about the differences between catering to an older, established audience and appealing to the upcoming generation.

Like the Guardian's Alison Flood, I came to Binchy in my tween years, during the transitional period between reading kids» books and adult ones.

The good news, though, is there was a correlation between the amount of time parents spend reading aloud to their children — something the American Academy of Pediatrics now recommends parents do from birth, even before the development of oral language comprehension — and the amount of independent pleasure reading that kids choose.

I read a back and forth on some book review site a while back between a reviewer and an author where the author thought she should get cut some slack because she had kids and a job and apparently didn't have the time to devote to honing her craft and seriously editing her work.

Word Wise automatically places short and simple definitions above difficult words, which is good for readers learning English and kids learning to read (though I wasn't crazy about how much extra spacing it introduces between sentences).

Participating in a library summer reading program can make the difference between summer setback and summer success, leading to better academic performance when kids and teens return to school in the fall.

In a nationwide BMe powered search for the best and brightest, kids between the ages of 8 and 12 are encouraged to read a financial literacy book of their choosing, and either write a 250 - word essay or create an art project to show how they would apply what they learned from the book to their daily lives.

The Moultrie News recently featured a joint venture between Charleston Animal Society and Charleston County Library — that is using pets, to help promote reading with kids.

In my down time — between shuttling my kids to their various activities — I love to read, and go camping with my family.

Here I spread the word about brilliant books for kids and young people, and to connect with others who are passionate about reading, stories, illustration, and all the things which can come between the covers of a book.

Here I spread the word about brilliant books for kids and young people, and to connect with others who are passionate about reading, stories, illustration, and all the things which can come between the covers of a book.

If you have been reading our blog entries on Expressing Compassion and Empathy and Mindfulness in Emotional Moments between endless cups of coffee, a stressful commute to work, and delivering the kids around to their weekly activities, chances are that you may feel like you are on the verge of losing it.

When I first read the book How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk on my maternity leave, I learned about the differences between encouragement and praise, and realized that I had been praising in my classroom instead of encouraging.

That partly explains a gap — equivalent to about 20 IQ points or 120 SAT points — in reading and math skills between the nation's richest 20 percent and poorest 20 percent of kindergarten - age kids.