Sentences with phrase «elementary classes»

And there's a lovely children's book called «Somebody Loves You, Mr. Hatch» that I read every year around Valentine's Day to my elementary classes.

Use of iPads is incorporated into many elementary classes, and we actively seek grants to bring more iPads and tablets in to the school for instructional purposes.

By engaging with early learning providers and raising the quality of early learning and elementary classes, districts are seeing immediate gains — and improvements which persist through later grades.

In, again, most upper elementary classes to which I've been exposed.

I've spent a good deal of time in elementary classes these past two years and I'm always anxious to share with fellow teachers my time, resources and knowledge to boost their social studies units.

And the way reading is taught in most elementary classes — with more emphasis on students» thinking about their own «good reader strategies» and personal connections than on parsing the text — is counterproductive.

Try visiting many different elementary classes for five complete days - reality might get through to you.

Republicans complained of elementary classes currently exceeding the maximum funded allotment, which under House Bill 13, will be one teacher per 23 students in K - 3 in the 2017 - 2018 academic year.

In Weld RE-4, south of Greeley, some elementary classes have more than 27 students — you want to typically keep those numbers much lower in the primary grades; in high school they have classes of 32 and 34 students.

WCPSS does not have the actual classrooms for these 400 new elementary classes, nor do the certified teachers for these classes exist.

Think back to the best classes you had in elementary classes.

In elementary classes, a model of differentiation called station rotation allows children to learn for 20 minutes at time in at least three different modes.

This can pose a challenge, particularly in elementary classes, where students may not have devices or the ability to learn on their own.

After studying English and graduating from Brown University, she taught elementary classes at the K - 12 school where she went in Brooklyn Heights.

«Some of the elementary classes wrote us thank you notes,» Miller added, «and as I looked through the letters, I noticed that every student seemed to have a different favorite activity.

For example, Texas» state requirement of a student - teacher ratio of 22 to 1 in elementary classes has been relaxed.

Review: While teachers may not want to use these materials in early elementary classes, everything here has tremendous academic value, along with the «wow» factor of seeing sharks in action.

Many elementary classes start each morning with a meeting that sets the stage for the learning that will occur during the day, but more and more middle schools are finding that this social experience is just, if not more, important in upper grades.

Breast milk helps with brain development, but in my kids» elementary classes, I can't tell which students were nursed or formula fed.

Sloan said the 5,451 - student Port Washington school district has about 100 more children enrolled this year than last year, and some elementary class sizes have swelled to 28 students.

In Kristen Wideen's elementary class, Padlet helps students organize their thoughts as they begin inquiry projects.

When I stopped by an elementary class during Genius Hour, I found students with no shortage of project ideas — from rocketry to the history of ceramics.

Every elementary class at the school begins the day with a 15 - minute circle time that helps children transition to school and feel «ready to learn.»

Exposure to a single disruptive peer in an elementary class of 25 students leads to a 1.6 percentage point reduction in college enrollment, a 2.6 percentage point reduction in the likelihood of receiving a college degree (including two - year degrees), and a three - to - four percent loss in earnings.

When North Carolina lawmakers approved what one Republican described as a «historic» investment in reducing elementary class sizes this week, it was viewed by many as a godsend for school districts that feared thousands of teaching jobs were at stake.

The district's approach to the management of elementary class sizes as new students enroll is being revised to more effectively promote equity in the educational experience of students and optimize the use of our staff and facilities.

They then conducted brief walk - through observations of each elementary class in the school.

Every elementary class at the school begins the day with a 15 - minute circle time that helps children transition to school and feel «ready to learn.»

Not exact matches

While some elementary and middle schools have started implementing coding classes, Fisher Price introduced a $ 50 toy this year to targeted towards a much younger demographic: preschoolers.

We now have 150 students from the local elementary school that run classes in the garden.

Classes are taught in many facilities, including child - care and recreation centers, elementary schools and YMCA / YWCA centers.

You may just know chalk as the white, powdery writing utensil your elementary school teachers used at the front of the class.

One of my elementary school art teachers once gave me fantastic advice when he was teaching a class.

(Just by memory of elementary bio-chemistry class decades ago).

Why is it religious and sectarian when an elementary school teacher prays in front of a class room of children, but a mere nonreligious solemnization when a President stands in front of the nation and swears, on a Bible, so help him God, to carry out the office to which he has been entrusted?

Did you take any science classes past elementary school???

We now learn things in elementary science classes that Newton, as intelligent as he was, couldn't even dream.

I was raised Mormon, then went to a Baptist school for my elementary years, then had to read the damned thing again in high school, and when I took an Honors English class (The Modern Legacy) at my college, we were required to read the vile New Testament, in addition to the Enuma Elis and the Epic of Gilgamesh.

For almost 80 years, Mercer County Public Schools have offered a Bible class to elementary school students and now, the Freedom From Religion Foundation is fighting to remove them.

There were tour groups bunched around certain paintings inspecting them closely, including an elementary school class who were sprawled on the floor with pads of paper and pencil crayons, copying — oh, good gracious — an actual Van Gogh painting.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

No... I actually began questioning Christianity and all religions when I was in elementary school and in history class while learning about the greek gods and their myths thought «Well... let's see... these people really believed in these gods and those stories... thought they really happened... but there was no evidence they did and we all know they're not real now... so what's different between that and Christianity and other religions?»

I was teaching a photography class to elementary school kids last fall and one of the kids shot this image of their classmates: http://rsphoto.fileave.com/kids.jpg

Here was this amazing Ph.D. from whom I loved taking classes, and he was taking all his teaching expertise and gifting it to these elementary - schoolers — because he wanted them to have a great experience learning about God.

She made Snickerdoodles and submitted her recipe to a class collection of favorites at her elementary school.

This is a quote that my nutrition teacher shared with the class and it helps to explain what I am saying: «The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts — the cells.»

There was a kid from Holland in my elementary school class and he had a chocolate sandwich every single day.

For four years I taught Spanish in an elementary school, and I taught a cooking class with the children — we made empanadas!

Manley was eventually diagnosed with a learning disability in elementary school and was placed in a special - ed class where playing with blocks took the place of reading and writing.

It was only a few years latter, on an elementary school class trip, that I discovered Rutgers.