Sentences with phrase «fourth grade kid»

You can't always hold your child's hand, especially when it comes to school, but it doesn't mean that you can't help when your fourth grade kid struggles with reading comprehension.

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ON HIS SON TORII JR.»S FOURTH - GRADE BASKETBALL TEAM Last year they went undefeated and were beating guys pretty bad, so this year they moved up and played against older kids.

Most people would have taken off the baby sling by the time the kid was in fourth grade, but on the plus side, Mrs. Johnson says you're one of the best in the class at long division.

Even though almost every student at the KIPP Academy... is from a low - income family, and all but a few are either black or Hispanic, and most enter below grade level, they are still a step above other kids in the neighborhood; on their math tests in the fourth grade (the year before they arrived at KIPP), KIPP students in the Bronx scored well above the average for the district, and on their fourth - grade reading tests they often scored above the average for the entire city.

Common Threads classmates (mostly kids in fourth to sixth grades) chopped rutabagas, potatoes and onions like pros as they bragged about their newfound ability to make sushi, cupcakes and pasta in unique shapes.

My kids were in second and fourth grade when I returned to work outside of the home.

City kids in Grades 3 to 8 posted modest gains on the 2017 state English and math exams, a fourth consecutive year of improvement, according to new data.

«John's history as a community leader will further engage and educate the community on the brand new Connect Kids initiative, which involves free access to all fourth - grade students and their families, free field trips for eligible schools, free Learn to Swim lessons for children, the youth conservation corps and various outdoor recreational programs.

Through NY Parks 2020 Governor Cuomo launched Connect Kids to Parks program, which provides free day - use park entry to fourth - grade students and their families, grants to public schools for field trips to state parks and historic sites, and free learn - to - swim lessons throughout the summer at 27 parks.

The bill would require parents to provide proof of testing for kids entering kindergarten, second or fourth grade.

No kid should be going to a fourth grade class where there are more than twenty kids in that class.

Fourth graders who showed signs of depression were more likely than their classmates to be victimized as fifth graders, and kids who were picked on in fifth grade tended to be less accepted by their peers in sixth grade.

Another one that comes to mind is when my best friend, a fourth grade teacher, emailed me a link of her students» «favorite kid», Kid Presidekid», Kid PresideKid President.

But her best humor draws from her Mexican - American heritage — and how it even affected her fourth - grade fantasy of meeting New Kids on the Block.

For those not familiar with Disney's Saturday Morning cartoon lineup on ABC, «Recess» is a show about a group of kids in the fourth grade class at Third Street School.

«The Catalog - Canceling Challenge is a pretty simple, free, and fun project that empowers kids and has real impact,» says the projects founder, fourth - grade teacher Ted Wells.

A key way of doing this in the third and fourth grades is during the brainstorming phase [before students write] is to let the kids who want to and who think visually and graphically draw with colored pencils.

When I was a district administrator, a parent called me, very distressed that a TIME for Kids article about 9 - 11 was being read in her fourth - grade child's classroom.

They needed someone to personally tell them that their kid was «passing» or «failing» fourth grade!

Georgia's fourth - grade reading proficiency rate dropped from close to 100 percent in 2013 to less than 40 percent in 2015 — not because the kids were doing worse, but because the state's measure of how they were doing was getting closer to the truth.

The simple - to - navigate user interface and kid - friendly features make it great for a fourth grade classroom.

And so as a teacher you read that and you think, «I don't teach maths, I teach kids» or «I don't teach fourth grade, I teach students».

Thanks to the class and some outside advice, it was a low - stress day for the kids and I. Included: A look at a day as a fourth grade sub.

We're trying to teach kids both science content — the science content in the fourth grade standards that's relevant to our curriculum are energy transfers, what kinetic and potential energy are, the transfer from potential to kinetic like when a car goes down a ramp, and then the transfer of energy when objects collide.

I had a fourth - grade teacher try the idea and tell me the kids no longer groaned when it was time to do math.

«I take digital pictures of all our fourth grade students and help the students import them into Kid Pix,» Wonnacott told Education World.

For instance, fourth - grade teacher Kevin Durden gives kids additional choices, such as creating a PowerPoint slide show or a comic strip (using Comic Life software) or filming a skit (using Flip video cameras).

Kids on the Cusp focuses on teaching in the early middle grades — fourth and fifth.

«If kids graduated from fourth grade, I think he would have been an unqualified success,» said Sherman Dorn, an education professor at the University of South Florida.

One promising practice from overseas is screening all kids at third or fourth grade — after they've had a few years of school — and directing special resources to the top scorers.

For example, some things kids used to learn in fourth grade they might now learn in third grade.

Nancy Landis, a fourth - grade teacher at Oskaloosa (Kansas) Elementary School, has found a technique for quieting rambunctious kids that works well for her.

I know without a shadow of a doubt, now that the shoe is on the other foot and I am the teacher, that without the gentle love of Ms. Woods and Mrs. Furlong, both of my kids» third - grade teacher; the patient understanding of Mrs. Keane, their fourth - grade teacher; and the stern nurturing of Ms. Bergeron, both my kids» fifth - grade teacher (just to name a few), we would have struggled a lot more than we did to overcome the obstacles that are inherent in single - parent households.

Michael Petrilli, president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a center - right education policy think tank, wrote in a blog post last week, «if scores drop among low - income and low - performing students — the kids least likely to be comfortable with digital devices, especially in the fourth grade — that could signal that something went awry.»

Our third grader was placed in fourth grade math and started on eighth grade level books with kids of similar ability.

As many students struggle to learn fractions, which usually are taught in third or fourth grade, the government is actually funding research into how to help kids learn fractions.

For example, Keith Lance reports in the 2000 Colorado study, How School Librarians Help Kids Achieve Standards: «Schools with well - developed library media programs average 10 % to 15 % higher on fourth grade reading scores and 18 % higher on seventh grade reading scores than schools where libraries are less developed.

As a kid, I saw my fourth grade teacher, Mrs. Bishop, for more hours a day than my own mother.

«How do you help kids know that this is another way that we find out what kinds of things we can do and need to do, when at home, the conversation might be about «You won't go to fourth grade if you don't pass this test.

The National Geography Bee is for kids in the fourth through eighth grade.

By the time they reached the fourth or fifth grade, kids who attended pre-K in the state's poorest cities were on average three - quarters of an academic year ahead of their peers who didn't.

Sixty - five percent of students in North Carolina are not reading at grade level by the time they reach fourth grade, according to the latest KIDS COUNT data snapshot.

The limited English proficient kids in Texas scored better on the fourth - grade reading test in 2013 than same - grade limited English proficient kids in Oregon.

Given that the percentage of low - income suburban fourth - grade young men struggling with literacy is only seven percentage points lower than that for big - city counterparts (and only six points lower for suburban fourth - grade young women peers than for big - city counterparts), suburban districts are doing as poorly as big - city counterparts in providing the poorest kids with high - quality education needed for success in an increasingly knowledge - based economy.

In some poor, typically urban schools fewer than 10 % are proficient at reading and math by fourth grade, and yet these kids are pushed forward by the demand of a one - size - fits - all educational model to work within a curriculum that was designed for kids who are fully proficient in the learning content and skills that were «covered» in previous school years.

By the time I was in the fourth grade — or thereabouts — I knew I wanted to be a writer when I grew up, and I think I was curious to see if the writers I read about were like me or had been when they were kids.

We cover books up to age fourth grade, and with the read aloud feature, these kids can beyond their ability and be introduced to a higher level vocabulary.»

I usually loop with my kids from fourth to fifth grade and back.

This KIDS COUNT data snapshot finds 80 percent of fourth - graders from low - income families and 66 percent of all fourth - graders are not reading at grade level.

Beginning in about the third or fourth grade, he had almost completely drifted away from the adult world into the closed society of the kid pop culture communing mostly with his TV; Nintendo, Sega Genesis, CDs and «action» comic books.