Sentences with phrase «fourth grade when»

I thought my career culminated in the fourth grade when I won the prestigious Pete Rose Reading Award for reading 70 books over the course of a summer.
My kids were in second and fourth grade when I returned to work outside of the home.
Maybe you should have considered extending your education past fourth grade when going through your life experiences.
I was teaching fourth grade when we decided to make a mega career change!

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When Business Insider spoke with Laird, he said the fourth - grade class had just one boy.
My fourth - grade teacher didn't help when she announced I was the worst speller she'd seen in 25 years.
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When Cruz was in third or fourth grade, Speno remembers watching him try his best to use a pellet gun to kill a squirrel.
She wore a head covering from fourth grade onwards, but stopped when she lost her faith
When she was in the fourth grade, the Depression struck.
However, I've always been a bit of a secret Methodist, and I've celebrated Lent alone since fourth grade, when I met a Methodist girl who would become a close friend.
When I was about 10 years old, my fourth - grade class took a wintertime field trip to an ice rink.
I used to have it tacked to the wall next to my desk when I taught fourth grade.
However, one year (usually third or fourth grade), you are confused and shocked when your child brings home a report card with C's, and maybe even a — gasp — D!
As a matter of fact, one of my favorite chapter books when I was teaching fourth grade was «Esperanza Rising» by Pam Munoz Ryan.
Don't worry, says this seasoned teacher / blogger, it's only a phase, and fourth grade is right about when reading tastes start to change, evolve, and expand.
«The Nylon Curtain» was by far my favorite album when I was in the fourth grade.
Medical record data from newborns with normoglycemia (normal blood sugar levels) or transient hypoglycemia were matched with their student achievement tests in 2008 when they were 10 years old and in the fourth grade.
When she talks with her fourth, fifth, and sixth grade classes about the science fair project assignment, Lisa says she «highly recommends» that they choose a Science Buddies project, and she allots valuable classroom time for her students to use the Wizard.
I remember when I was in fourth grade and we read The Hobbit.
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 President.
When she was in fourth grade, her family moved to the United States where she
Despite a passable grade, given the stretched - out feel to the movie, with, for a film about a nationwide revolution, the feeling that it's a bit small in terms of scope, this is a clear example of why splitting the final book into two films, while financially smart, is quite a bad choice for fans, who deserve to feel fired up when going into the fourth and final film in the franchise.
«It's a lot more work than when I first started teaching 28 years ago,» said Carol Perkins, a fourth grade teacher at Four Corners.
As Ross used to tell his fourth grade students, «In middle and high school, when all of your friends are messing around on social media, I want you to be using it to grow your own businesses!»
Nainoa Q. «When I was in fourth grade, my teacher allowed us to play a stock market game at school and it helped me with my math.
In a Canby fourth - grade classroom of sixteen students, from the fall to mid-year assessment of reading fluency, when average increase in word count per minute (WCPM) is 12, the average in the iPod classroom was close to 20.
When he first came into my fourth grade class, asking him for 20 words was like pulling teeth.
When Renee Krantzer, of the University of Missouri College of Education, heard of the Orphan Train project, she invited the classes to participate in a videoconference with Janice Uptegrove's fourth grade students in Smithville, Missouri, who were also studying the topic, and with Shirley Andrews, the daughter of Orphan Train rider Irma Craig.
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.
When Michelle Moyle was sick in bed, her fourth - grade teacher, Liz Thomas, arrived at her house with a stack of books to cheer her up — a gesture Michelle remembers some 38 years later.
The opportunity to pilot one aspect of our original human - body plan arose when the GATE coordinator proposed having a fourth - grade GATE class produce videos covering the human - body / school - building analogies.
Since third and fifth grades in my school were the two «promotion» grades (the grades when students are tested and when most promotion and retention decisions are made), the standards on the fourth - grade report card were the standards associated with fifth grade, not fourth grade.
(Observe what a big deal it is when a state insists that children must be able, say, to read by the end of third grade in order to move on to fourth.)
Some noticed things they normally never noticed — like the fourth - grade student who said that when biting into a marshmallow, it tasted «like he had a 1,000 marshmallows in his mouth.»
When working as a teacher, Ed.D. candidate Aaliyah El - Amin remembers the afternoon she was tutoring a fourth - grade student on math problems.
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.
When I was a master's student at Princeton University, I had the eye - opening experience of observing a Trenton, N.J., fourth - grade classroom for a semester.
When the seventh grader is actually operating at a fourth - grade level, we have a hard choice to make: meet him where he is, knowing he'll likely learn a lot but do poorly on the state test, or expose him to seventh - grade content, knowing he's not likely to learn most of it, but may pick up a few points along the way.
When the fourth - grade classes in her building scheduled an Earth science unit on rocks, she saw a perfect opportunity to introduce the students to the knowledge and experience of a true expert in the field — with the help of technology!
My lifelong devotion to education began in the Fiji Islands at the age of 16, when a local headmaster asked if I would like to volunteer as a teacher for his third - and fourth - grade classes.
Her son Timothy was in fourth grade at Mark Hopkins Elementary School when she received word that he was reading at just a second - grade level.
I had a fourth - grade teacher try the idea and tell me the kids no longer groaned when it was time to do math.
When you include a snack break, the distractions from his younger sister, and his fourth - grade attention span that is bound to wander, that time often gets doubled.
Exclusion rates in Maryland on the math test went down significantly in fourth grade this year, when the national testing officials began allowing some students with disabilities to use a calculator.
When students leave Success Academy schools for whatever reason, the administration stops replacing them with new students after the fourth grade, so the enrollment of each class dwindles over the years.
When the latest scores of our country's national reading test arrived this spring, they were as depressing as usual: Two - thirds of American fourth - graders, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, can not read at grade level.
«When we start in fifth grade, we're starting in the fourth quarter, down by a touchdown, and the two - minute warning has been given,» KIPP co-founder Mike Feinberg was fond of saying about running middle schools.
When Nicole Harris» son started fourth grade at Thurgood Marshall Elementary in the Central District this year, there were only minority children in his class.
For example, parents of a gifted fourth grader who achieves at a sixth grade level on nationally normed achievement test may be told those results are irrelevant as the fourth graders in this district are «really» sixth graders when they take a nationally normed test.
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