Sentences with phrase «first kindergarten students»

It's amazing to me that my first kindergarten students are now 49 years old!

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The man murdered 20 kindergarten and first - grade students.

But preliminary results already show powerful gap - closing effects for Educare students: If disadvantaged children enter Educare before their first birthday, they usually are, by the first day of kindergarten, essentially caught up with the national average on tests of basic knowledge and language comprehension, as well as on measures of noncognitive factors like attachment, initiative, and self - control.

Señora Pasion, our Spanish teacher, begins working with our rising first grade students towards the end of their kindergarten year (at age 5 or 6), and Spanish studies continue until they graduate from our middle school.

But as a former student who once devoted way too many hours to busy work that didn't teach me anything, and a current parent who has been shocked to see my child get homework in both kindergarten and first grade, I have to say, I think that Alfie Kohn just might be on to something.

Before Columbus Day, special needs students in kindergarten and first grade shared a classroom with students from second and third grades.

It certainly can be nerve - racking for first time students, whether if be entering Kindergarten, Junior High, High School, or College and University.

This paper shape Christmas tree craft was always fun to do with my students back when I taught Kindergarten and first grade.

Doctoral candidate Ximena Portilla and Assistant Professor Jelena Obradović of the Graduate School of Education, with colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, studied kindergarten students and classroom environments and then followed those students into first grade.

Currently, I work for the Orange County Department of Education, and train preschool transitional kindergarten and kindergarten at first grade teachers, and strategies that help students acquire the curriculum, and I do a lot of work with parents, looking at what do you need to know to help your child best and make sure your child is making the progress they need to make in school.

Harlem Success Academy wants to open a first grade and kindergarten inside P.S. 145 next fall, but local parents worry that crowded District 3 can't handle any more students.

Even the Peck Slip School, which opened its first kindergarten class last fall in its temporary space at Tweed Courthouse, has a wait - list of 13 zoned students.

A plan to alleviate hunger among students from kindergarten through higher education has received some national attention, as one component would require every public college or university in the state to offer a food pantry on campus — a project that would be the first of its kind in the nation.

According to Read to Succeed Executive Director Anne Ryan, students who miss 10 percent of kindergarten and first grade scored an average of 60 points below similar students with good attendance on third grade reading tests.

The fledgling school, which currently serves kindergarten to first - grade students, will relocate from its temporary space at the Tweed Courthouse to the New York by Gehry tower in September.

P.S. 19Q has five smaller trailers that were placed on the school campus in 1994, accommodating 250 students into seven kindergarten and three first - grade «classrooms».

If approved, Success Academy Bed - Stuy 3 would have up to 160 students in kindergarten and first grade starting in 2016, and add one grade level each year, according to the city's Department of Education.

Students in kindergarten through third grade at nine low - income New York City schools will receive more than 24,000 books they can take home, as part of a pilot literacy project launched Tuesday by the United Federation of Teachers, the New York City Department of Education, First Book, The American Federation of Teachers and The New York Community Trust.

With the approval, Success Academy Bed - Stuy 3 will have up to 160 students in kindergarten and first grade starting in the 2016 school year, and will add one grade level each year, plans show.

A classroom program that helps teachers adapt their interactions with students based on individuals» temperaments may lead to more student engagement in kindergarten, more teacher emotional support to kindergarten and first grade students, and better classroom organization and less off - task behavior in first - grade classes, according to research by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

During the first two semesters of the school tour program, the museum received 525 applications from school groups representing 38,347 students in kindergarten through grade 12.

The state licenses providers and holds them accountable for student performance by testing children within their first month of kindergarten.

Since the first classroom logged onto Bugscope in March 1999, more than 1,500 students in almost sixty schools have participated, from kindergarten through high school.

Long Vowels Kindergarten or First Grade PowerPoint Game: Long Vowels Interactive PowerPoint game is a fun game where students make long vowels words using whales and fish.

Many parents believe that so - called «academic redshirting,» or the act of delaying a student's kindergarten entrance by one year, will give their children a leg up not only when they first enroll in school, but throughout their educational careers and later in life.

In its first year, 2004 — 05, the percentage of kindergarten and 1st - grade students reading at or above grade level increased from 26 to 96 percent; in the same period, the percentage of 5th graders reading at or above grade level increased from 18 to 55 percent.

Mijares is proposing that Santa Ana offer a two - year, half - day kindergarten program for students who do not have the skills necessary to enter first grade.

Supportive interventions can help some students, but these interventions are often implemented too late (after years of reading failure, despite evidence that taking action is most effective in kindergarten and first grade) and haphazardly (schools and teachers often do not know what can work for various types of students).

There was high demand for the school tours: during its first two semesters, the museum tour program received 525 applications from school groups representing 38,347 students in kindergarten through grade 12.

We excluded kindergarten and first - grade teachers because earlier achievement exams were not available for their students; this prevented us from developing a «value - added» measure of student learning.

Kindergarten and first - grade teachers regularly yelled at their students.

She pleaded with her colleagues in kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and third grade to prepare students with the necessary building blocks so that she would never again have to watch her students being humiliated by a test for which they were so poorly prepared.

Kindergarten and first grade students watched either a humorous or non-humorous Sesame Street segment.

Hands - on activities have been shown to promote science learning at all levels (Bredderman, 1983), and possibly math learning in kindergarten and first grade, when relatively simple objects are used to focus students» attention on math concepts (McNeil and Jarvin, 2009).

Kindergarten and first - grade students learn in regular elementary classrooms, with one teacher for all subjects.

Secretary of Transportation Rodney E. Slater and Admiral James M. Loy, the commandant of the Coast Guard, teamed up with officials from First Book to hand out about 80 brand - new books to students in Head Start and kindergarten at a local elementary school.

Islamic Sight Word Stories is designed for the beginning reader (pre-K, kindergarten, or first grade) or beginning ESL students in elementary school.

Sight Word Stories is a reader / workbook designed for the beginning reader (pre-K, kindergarten, or first grade) or beginning ESL students in elemen...

In 1995 the delayed entry students were less like likely than students who started kindergarten on time to have repeated first or second grade.

In order for educators to effectively pass on these skills to their students, whether kindergarten or tertiary age, it is necessary they first understand self - regulation themselves.

First - and second - grade students in 1993 who had been kept out of kindergarten until they were older were less likely than other students to draw negative feedback from teachers about their academic performance or conduct in class.

In order to be eligible for an FTC scholarship, students must meet the income guidelines (until recently, family incomes below 185 percent of the federal poverty line for new applicants) and either must have attended a Florida public school for the full school year before program entry or be entering kindergarten or first grade.

«We know by looking at the failure rates in kindergarten and first grade that many of these students are coming from social environments that haven't adequately prepared them for academic success,» he adds.

We see this as a cost - effective way to proactively affect kindergarten readiness, and believe that the first step in this line of inquiry is to survey advanced high school students, from varied backgrounds here in the US, as to what they know about parenting.

This is a lesson I've done with my kindergarten and first - grade students to introduce the idea that strangers exist on the internet and to discuss how we should interact with them.

The fellowship program lasts four months and focuses first on parents with children enrolled in kindergarten and the first grade because, Gulati explains, brain development during this time is crucial and needs to be addressed in the beginning phases of students» education.

Limiting eligibility to students who are switching out of the district or charter school system, or who are entering kindergarten or first grade for the first time, is one way to phase in ESAs in a manner that also maximizes the potential for savings.

Students with household incomes less than 300 % of the federal poverty guidelines, and who either attended public school the prior year or are entering kindergarten or first grade are eligible to receive scholarships to attend private schools approved by the scholarship foundation.

From the beginning of kindergarten to the end of first grade, black students lose 20 percent of a standard deviation (approximately 10 percent of a standard deviation each year) relative to white students with similar characteristics.

Last year, the district made full - day kindergarten the norm for its 13,000 students, and leaders are now working to leverage state pre-k dollars to get all kids ready to learn on the first day.