Sentences with phrase «elementary school children during»

Adult reading mentors from organizations and corporations help disadvantaged elementary school children during lunch hour.

The contaminant was discovered in September 1995 by elementary school children during lunch in Bertha, Minn..

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My children's needs were more than adequately met by being at home with their father / grandmother (or later on preschool and then elementary school) during the 1/3 of the day that I wasn't with them.

Children are ready to move into cognitive learning during the elementary school years.

An inflatable slide collapsed during a field day at an Algonquin elementary school today, sending six children to hospitals with minor injuries, officials said.

If the average elementary student attends school for 188 days, then during the course of a year the child will consume 25 % of the meals from SFSD.

As for the nuts issue, as the parent of vegan elementary school children, I have to admit it would be nice to be able to send nuts in for snack (we are allowed to at lunch), but even if I couldn't, there are many other times during the day I can find an opportunity to give them an ounce or two of nuts — like breakfast, after school snack, dinner and dessert!

For instance, during these elementary school years, the importance of friends — both children and adults — outside his own family, will increasingly play a large role in his life.

What many people don't know is that during the preschool and early elementary school years, signing can help your child learn to read and write.

Experts say that the chronic diseases that affect millions of American adults each year - heart disease, cancer, diabetes, osteoporiasis - get their start before and during the elementary school years when children are developing their dietary habits.

Trading one problem for another, CPS will soon offer free breakfast to every child in every elementary school — during the first 15 minutes of every school day.

Perhaps during the elementary school years your child came home and begged you to participate and volunteer at their school whenever you could be there.

He said that the board, «vehemently opposes any plan that closes the Phoenicia elementary school and robs our residents and their children of convenient localized education opportunities for their younger children, disregards the needs of the local economy and businessmen and residents that assist with, sponsor and pay for school programs...» The resolution listed how the school acts as a community center including athletic, educational, social programs during the evenings, weekends and summer that are sponsored by the town.

The quality of the neighborhood where a child grows up has a significant impact on the number of problem behaviors they display during elementary and teenage years, a study led by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers suggests.

In 24 elementary and middle schools in three eastern Massachusetts communities during the 2015 - 16 school year, the parents of all students in grades K - 8 were invited to enroll their children in the BOKS program and the study.

«These findings point to the need for effective interventions during the elementary school years to combat peer victimization, as well as programs designed to help children who have experienced repeated peer victimization learn how to effectively cope with stress,» Troop - Gordon explains.

Further highlighting the relationships between peer victimization and children's developing stress responses, the study found that when peer victimization decreased during elementary school, girls» effortful engagement rose significantly and their involuntary disengagement fell.

«Although most preterm children catch up with their full term peers during early elementary school, future interventions to improve friendships and social interaction skills should start before school entry to prevent later psychopathology and behaviour problems.»

Compared to youngsters who stayed at home until they started school, babies who attended large - group child care before age 2 1/2 came down with more respiratory bugs and ear infections during their early preschool years (before 3 1/2), but fewer respiratory and ear infections once they started elementary school.

Drinking soda during pregnancy can lead to your child developing asthma during their elementary - school years.

There are a panoply of «jobs» we might «hire» a pre-K program to perform for families: the job of providing dependable custodial services for working parents; the job of preparing students for elementary school by focusing on high impact areas like early vocabulary exposure; the job of keeping young children healthy during their early years of development.

The two studies assessed an array of cognitive, linguistic, and pre-reading skills in children during the preschool period and followed those children into elementary school.

During the five - minute play, a group of elementary - school - age children reenacted the ancient Greek myth of Bellerophon, who tamed the flying horse Pegasus and slayed the Chimera with a giant leaden spear — or in this case, a large ruler.

Tannebaum's wife, an elementary school teacher, suggested he develop a program that didn't pull children out of their classes but takes place during lunch and recess time.

The Author's Picks: Must - Read Books For Elementary Students Are you looking for the best books to read with your elementary school students during National Children's Book Week?

Examining the days forfeited to snow and other «unscheduled closings» in Maryland in 2002 - 2003, he concluded that two - thirds of the elementary schools that failed to make «adequate yearly progress» (the federal benchmark under «No Child Left Behind») in math that year would have done so «if they had been open during all scheduled school days.»

In New Jersey, during the 2015 - 16 school year, 30,000 children started a pre-K program in a state elementary school.

Prioritize Whole Schools Initiative resources to maximize the benefits of arts integrated learning for children during early childhood and elementary school

During middle school, for example, students from elementary schools that had implemented the Developmental Studies Center's Child Development Project — a program that emphasizes community building — were found to outperform middle school students from comparison elementary schools on academic outcomes (higher grade - point averages and achievement test scores), teacher ratings of behavior (better academic engagement, respectful behavior, and social skills), and self - reported misbehavior (less misconduct in school and fewer delinquent acts)(Battistich, 2001).

If the current homeless rate among families continues in New York City, one in seven school - aged children will be homeless at some point during elementary school.

This may come as a surprise to parents new to the world of gifted education, where the anecdotal statement is frequently made that private school is a good choice for gifted children, particularly during the elementary school years.

Although the benefits of preschool are impressive, one year of high - quality education can not undo the impacts of negative experiences during a child's first four years, nor can it preemptively make up for shortcomings in elementary school.

All Niskayuna elementary schools offer free preschool story hour programs during the school year for children entering kindergarten next fall.

In fact, according to a study by Johns Hopkins University, summer learning loss during elementary school accounts for two - thirds of the achievement gap in reading between low - income children and their middle - income peers by ninth grade.

We ask students to prepare a short slide show when they introduce a hands - on activity or lead a discussion with their college peers or elementary children (during our elementary school field experience component).

Because children with mild disabilities are significantly more likely to be mainstreamed during the elementary years than at any other time during their educational experience, elementary school social studies teachers are in a particularly challenging situation.

Children's pre-academic skills — including vocabulary, knowledge of the world, letter recognition, and phonemic awareness — are strongly associated with academic outcomes during elementary school.

Analyzing the math achievement of elementary school children, Stephen Raudenbush, Marshall Jean, and Emily Art find that students learn less if they attend schools with high student turnover during the school year — a common occurrence in poor schools.

We learned a great deal about teaching economics to elementary and middle school children during this period.

A 2007 study conducted by Johns Hopkins University found that all children learn at about the same rate during the school year, but two - thirds of the ninth - grade achievement gap can be explained by what happens over the summers in the elementary years.

During his long - time work on behalf of the child, and in addition to being a school leader, John has served as a Montessori elementary guide, a reading specialist, a district - level administrator for Hartford Public Schools, and now, the instructional leader of Hartford's second comprehensive public Montessori program.

The rate of suspensions and expulsions at charter schools during the last school year have declined slightly, but are once again far higher than state averages, particularly for children in elementary schools where the rate is four times the state average, the report said.

The discussion is a continuation of last year's luncheon and discussion, SAYL officials said, during which several San Antonio school superintendents said more effective early literacy programs are needed in order to address reading deficiencies among elementary school children.

«Pre-K is really the place to ensure the readiness of children so they can be more successful during the K - 12 continuum,» explained Joyce Mahomes, Warren County's Title I director and manager of the five Pre-K programs that are in place in all four elementary schools across the district.

During the day, Duval stays busy going to elementary schools where he is a certified therapy dog and reads with children once a week.

My ability to handle elementary school children's behavior both in class and during play breaks is exceptional; as I am skilled in treating their psychology and have advanced experience in managing problems associated with behavioral problems.

Child Care Provider — Jungle Jim Daycare, San Francisco, CA — 6/2013 -7 / 2015 • Cared for group of 15 children five days a week in busy downtown daycare • Led activities and arts and crafts projects to keep children engaged • Helped children with mealtimes and prepared daily snacks • Supervised children during recreation periodsAfter - School Program Leader — Kitsap County Parks and Recreation, Silverdale, WA — 11 / 2010 - Present • Lead after school program at local elementary school with about 35 students • Communicate with parents and facilitate child pick - ups in the evenings • Organize sports activities depending on interest, age, and skill level • Choreograph and rehearse annual after - school program reChild Care Provider — Jungle Jim Daycare, San Francisco, CA — 6/2013 -7 / 2015 • Cared for group of 15 children five days a week in busy downtown daycare • Led activities and arts and crafts projects to keep children engaged • Helped children with mealtimes and prepared daily snacks • Supervised children during recreation periodsAfter - School Program Leader — Kitsap County Parks and Recreation, Silverdale, WA — 11 / 2010 - Present • Lead after school program at local elementary school with about 35 students • Communicate with parents and facilitate child pick - ups in the evenings • Organize sports activities depending on interest, age, and skill level • Choreograph and rehearse annual after - school program rSchool Program Leader — Kitsap County Parks and Recreation, Silverdale, WA — 11 / 2010 - Present • Lead after school program at local elementary school with about 35 students • Communicate with parents and facilitate child pick - ups in the evenings • Organize sports activities depending on interest, age, and skill level • Choreograph and rehearse annual after - school program rschool program at local elementary school with about 35 students • Communicate with parents and facilitate child pick - ups in the evenings • Organize sports activities depending on interest, age, and skill level • Choreograph and rehearse annual after - school program rschool with about 35 students • Communicate with parents and facilitate child pick - ups in the evenings • Organize sports activities depending on interest, age, and skill level • Choreograph and rehearse annual after - school program rechild pick - ups in the evenings • Organize sports activities depending on interest, age, and skill level • Choreograph and rehearse annual after - school program rschool program recital

Here, we introduce the 2015 Middle Childhood Survey (MCS), designed as a self - report measure of children's psychosocial experiences in middle childhood (at approximately 11 years of age) administered online during the final year of primary (elementary) school for a population cohort of children being studied longitudinally within the New South Wales Child Development Study5 (NSW - CDS; http://nsw-cds.com.au/).

Family Participation and Involvement in Early Head Start Home Visiting Services: Relations With Longitudinal Outcomes (PDF - 690 KB) Peterson, Zhang, Roggman, Green, Cohen, Atwater, McKelvey, et al. (2013) Pew Center on the States Explores the influence of early home - visiting experiences, while children were infants and toddlers, on child and family status during children's preschool and elementary school years.

Only a few studies, including two of our own, assess families during the preschool period and again after the child has entered elementary school.