Sentences with phrase «for small groups of children»

An executive order by New York Gov. Elliot Spitzer last month granting family child - care providers the right to unionize is the latest sign of an aggressive push by organized labor to represent such workers, who care for small groups of children in the providers» own homes.

How about making volcanoes for small groups of children, you could make them with papier mache, play dough, sand or even snow.

They prepare an engaging curriculum for a small group of children.

That being said, online programs are a very cost efficient way for schools to meet the needs of gifted children — cheaper than hiring full time staff for a small group of children

Not exact matches

They may only be the «jump leader» for small groups of other women and children.

A «natural grouping» is a small social unit made up of people whose fives are in some measure interlaced and who provide for each other a stable context in which the orderly transmission of values can take place from parents to children.

Merle M. Ohlsen describes group counseling of adolescents and children in schools.9 Helen Driver reports on two groups for high school seniors, three groups for college students, and four leaderless teachers» groups.10 The second part of Driver's book reports on forty - four projects using small groups in elementary, high school, college, and graduate professional schools (as well as mental health settings), as described by the leaders of each group.

Several years ago I read about a study done on a group of small children who were taken to the top of a mountain where there was this wide open space that went on for miles and were told to go play.

Discussions of handling a child's anger constructively should be accompanied by small - group opportunities for the parents to work through their own feelings in this area (which is so vital to mental health).

So, as I read from your posts, I imagine for your family, a very natural setting were two people together with their child, tell each other what they believe in, in front of a small group of best friends, to celebrate life, love, trust, support and care with their friends and especially the 3 of you.

When Bowman ran a small group for children with recently separated or divorced parents, she used a rain - and - sun analogy by asking about the positives and negatives of the new family structure.

The Woodland Charter School began its journey in 2009 with a small group of parents seeking educational options for their children.

Look for a home daycare with a relatively small group of children.

Waldorf Academy Biography In 1986 a small group of parents in the downtown area of Toronto came together inspired by a vision of a new kind of school for their children — a Waldorf school.

«In some ways I'm more social (moms» groups), but I don't feel like I have much time for my close friends, some of whom don't have small children,» said one.

A 1990's evaluation of the Parents as Teachers (PAT) program also failed to find differences between groups on measures of parenting knowledge and behaviour or child health and development.17 Small positive differences were found for teen mothers and Latina mothers on some of these measures.

They consistently demonstrate leadership, understanding of child development, and planning of appropriate programming for small groups of campers and preschoolers.

Organized sports groups for children 12 and younger will be the most likely users of the park's relatively small playing fields, said the Park District's executive director, Thom Palmer.

Frankly, I am not willing to deal with the endless parade of cold's, flu's and eye infections that seem to go hand - in - hand with having a small child in a group child care situation... staying up all night with a sick child would never make up for the hours I had «all to myself» earlier in the day!

With a ratio of one counselor for every two children, small group sizes and individualized reward system, counselors are able to provide consistent and frequent feedback for targeted behaviors in order to facilitate real behavior change.

She described the research findings — based on a small study of 40 children being treated for concussion and a control group — as a major first step.

In a test of their idea, they farmed out a task to design a small chair for children to a group of 60 paid workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk.

«Although evidence suggesting the presence of cognitive deficits in children with sleep apnea has been around for quite some time,» said Leila Gozal, MD, MSc, from the University of Chicago, «the relatively small groups studied made it difficult to demonstrate a strong relationship between increasing cognitive issues and increasing sleep apnea severity.»

In early 2009 Jonathon Porritt, chair of the government's Sustainable Development Commission, whacked a hornet's nest by calling parents of more than two children «irresponsible» and blasting mainstream environmental groups for «betraying» their members by fearing to call for small families.

Overall psychiatric drug prescription patterns in children and adolescents Children in the youngest group accounted for the smallest number (0.8 percent) of prescriptions for any psychiatrchildren and adolescents Children in the youngest group accounted for the smallest number (0.8 percent) of prescriptions for any psychiatrChildren in the youngest group accounted for the smallest number (0.8 percent) of prescriptions for any psychiatric drug.

Teachers working with small groups of children would no doubt find this book useful in providing starting points for discussions about the important ethical issues surrounding evolution and genetic engineering.

Influenza remains a major health problem in the United States, resulting each year in an estimated 36,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations.4 Those who have been shown to be at high risk for the complications of influenza infection are children 6 to 23 months of age; healthy persons 65 years of age or older; adults and children with chronic diseases, including asthma, heart and lung disease, and diabetes; residents of nursing homes and other long - term care facilities; and pregnant women.4 It is for this reason that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that these groups, together with health care workers and others with direct patient - care responsibilities, should be given priority for influenza vaccination this season in the face of the current shortage.1 Other high - priority groups include children and teenagers 6 months to 18 years of age whose underlying medical condition requires the daily use of aspirin and household members and out - of - home caregivers of infants less than 6 months old.1 Hence, in the case of vaccine shortages resulting either from the unanticipated loss of expected supplies or from the emergence of greater - than - expected global influenza activity — such as pandemic influenza, which would prompt a greater demand for vaccination5 — the capability of extending existing vaccine supplies by using alternative routes of vaccination that would require smaller doses could have important public health implications.

I make large batches of homemade ketchup and freeze it in small containers to keep it within the safety guidelines for group child care kitchens.11

Set entirely around the vicinity of the cheerfully purple Magic Castle motel, a semiurban wasteland of hotels, abandoned houses and oversized promotional mascots bordering the unapproachable dream of Disney World, Baker takes for his heroes a small group of children, led by Moonee (Brooklynn Prince), an amoral, loudmouth innocent trying to entertain herself over summer break.

in Welsh • Started learning numbers 1 - 10 (and beyond) The planning is fairly flexible you can spend longer on some parts than others, do activities as a whole class or print multiple resources and work as smaller groups - whatever works for your group of children!

The planning is fairly flexible you can spend longer on some parts than others, do activities as a whole class or print multiple resources and work as smaller groups - whatever works for your group of children!

Resources include: Flash cards Matching Pairs Worksheets Games Word searches The planning is fairly flexible you can spend longer on some parts than others, do activities as a whole class or print multiple resources and work as smaller groups - whatever works for your group of children!

• Begin to learn time words associated with days of the week e.g. today, yesterday, tomorrow The planning is fairly flexible you can spend longer on some parts than others, do activities as a whole class or print multiple resources and work as smaller groups - whatever works for your group of children!

Resources include: Flash Cards for display and learning vocab Matching Pairs Game What's in the wardrobe labeling activity worksheet Clothes «Squares Game» Clothes word search Extension Activity - colours and clothes Lesson Plan The objectives of this lesson are: By the end of the session most children will: • Begin to learn some words for clothes • Know the French words for some of the clothes they are wearing • Be able to respond to questions about clothes The planning is fairly flexible you can spend longer on some parts than others, do activities as a whole class or print multiple resources and work as smaller groups - whatever works for your group of children!

Resources include: Flash Cards for display and matching pairs activity (inc word document so that you can edit) Matching vocab and picture worksheet Fill in the correct transport worksheet Transport wordsearch Transport «Squares Game» Lesson Plan The objectives of this lesson are: By the end of the session most children will: • Be learning to use «I go by... (train, bus etc) • Be able identify some words for various forms of transport • Start to answer questions in French about different types of transport The planning is fairly flexible you can spend longer on some parts than others, do activities as a whole class or print multiple resources and work as smaller groups - whatever works for your group of children!

Parts of the body «Squares Game» Lesson Plan The objectives of this lesson are: By the end of the session most children will: • Begin to learn some different words for parts of the body • Be able to listen and respond by pointing to body parts • Start to recognise the words for different body parts The planning is fairly flexible you can spend longer on some parts than others, do activities as a whole class or print multiple resources and work as smaller groups - whatever works for your group of children!

Resources include: Flash Cards for display and matching pairs activity (inc word document so that you can edit) Matching vocab and picture worksheet Filling in the missing menu items worksheet Food wordsearch Lesson Plan The objectives of this lesson are: By the end of the session most children will: • Be learning to use «I would like» • Answer what would you like with a food item in French • begin to learn a range of foods The planning is fairly flexible you can spend longer on some parts than others, do activities as a whole class or print multiple resources and work as smaller groups - whatever works for your group of children!

In Session 3, you will deepen your understanding of the distinguishing features of a learning group and five strategies for promoting group learning in an educational setting: nurturing children's capacities to learn together; designing engaging tasks that benefit from a group perspective; facilitating conversations that deepen learning; forming groups intentionally; and choreographing individual, small - group, and whole - class learning.

The Impact of Budget Cuts The director of Let Me Play, a group which has run summer schools for the last eight years, explains that a smooth transition from primary to secondary education is essential Children are going from being «a big fish in a small pond to being a very small one, in a very large unfamiliar environment».

The idea for the Little Wolf series of books created by Bramhall Publishing was first conceived whilst teaching French to small groups of children: not finding sufficiently inspiring material for the very young, I decided to create my own.

Keen to bring a fresh and fun approach to the topic, Mick George Ltd has set the challenge for children, alone, in pairs or small groups to create their very own Recycle - Trux out of recyclable materials as well as designing a new illustration to be added to the Commercial Waste Vehicles operated by Mick George Ltd..

Small groups of children stay with the same staff member for Community Unity all year, so they build strong relationships together.

For those children who had not met the standard, the most frequent type of support provided was to continue with systematic phonics teaching; this was followed by intensive learning in small groups.

Keen to bring a fresh and fun approach to the topic, Mick George Ltd set the challenge for children, alone, in pairs or small groups to create their very own Recycle - Trux out of recyclable materials.

The Michigan bill is particularly puzzling because it actually mandates many of the alternative interventions identified as effective by practitioners and / or researchers, including regular diagnostic assessment of children in grades K - 3, «evidence - based» small group or 1 - on - 1 supplemental instruction for students in K - 3 failing to meet benchmarks, and intensive teacher professional development.

This can then generate ideas for the children to work in small groups creating their own slapstick scenarios using success criteria of slapstick comedy features.

Having long criticized laws like the federal No Child Left Behind act and Indiana's Public Law 221 for relying too heavily on test scores, small groups of parents are planning to have their students «Opt Out» of statewide testing this spring.

Children were instructed in large groups for activities such as reading from Big Books and in small groups for a variety of activities.

However, by the end of the year, the small - group activities varied as children's readiness for reading varied.

For this half - hour period, each team member took a small group of students for instruction specifically tailored to the children's neeFor this half - hour period, each team member took a small group of students for instruction specifically tailored to the children's neefor instruction specifically tailored to the children's needs.