Sentences with phrase «grade kid who»

Or maybe some 9th dimensional 5th grade kids who are catching hell for creating us.

I've seen first - grade kids who have done a great job at this.

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Economists such as Carleton University professor Frances Woolley note that we've moved to this rebate system because everyone wins: well - off students with mediocre grades (who wouldn't have gotten into university at all back when I went) are now effectively subsidizing the smart kids and the ones who need financial aid.

It's perhaps what you'd expect from a kid who skipped four grades, two in elementary and two in high school, and graduated from the University of British Columbia four years early at 18.

And regardless of social class, the stresses and distractions that afflict unemployed parents also afflict their kids, who are more likely to repeat a grade in school, and who on average earn less as adults.

There stood the kid from seventh grade who swiped my lunch money twice.

Do you still want revenge for the kid who beat you up in 6th grade?

He called you by your last name (a practice I use to this day), he had a way of instilling fear into kids who would goof - off and cause distractions in other classes (a practice I was very much unable to duplicate during my one - year stint as an 8th - grade English teacher), and you had to run the gauntlet of sentence - diagramming grammar, which advanced to a pretty complex level, before the more «cool - teacher» aspects of Mr. Pacilio were unveiled — and even then, the tests on those rock songs were no joke!

«There were three of us, myself and two doctors, who all had fifth - grade kids.

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Parents and / or teachers of students in grades 1 - 3 who would like to participate in the program can visit the «Just for Kids» section on www.idahopotato.com.

Maybe it's just me, but Vince always reminded me of a grown up version of the kid from grade school you knew had ADHD, but ADHD wasn't a thing in the 70's so he was just that hyper kid who was always in trouble.

«All of the kids on the team do well in school, and I think that it is important for us to keep our grades up to stay on the team,» said Brent Bell, a 17 - year - old from Lincoln who attended Lincoln High before starting his senior year being home - schooled through the Horizon Charter School.

«If you think about it, this is a kid who basically went from eighth - grade football straight to varsity,» Murphy said.

FOR WHO: Kids entering K - 6th grade.

He had heard about this kid who was an eighth - grade sensation, running around and through everybody on the peewee level.

Here was a kid who had grades, plus a stable family life, plus all of this natural ability.

I am biased, being an educator in a public school (high school), but I have also met some wonderful kids who were homeschooled until 8th grade.

I teach 1st grade and have parents who won't let their kids ride the bus.

These kids often also made good grades — which tells us that good grades can belie a whole host of problems — but the human being earning those grades was often fragile, weak, lost, and in my view is likely to one day be resentful of the very parents who were «helping» in the name of love.

Babies and toddlers shouldn't watch TV, an hour a day of television is a reasonable amount of time for children, aggressive boys are made more aggressive by violent video games, heavy media users get lower grades than kids who are light users and also report being less happy.

Kids who are too preoccupied with grades and put all their energy into studying don't have the necessary time to cultivate strong relationships.

For some reason, grade schools tend to make kids feel like they can't be friends with other kids who are older or younger than them.

If your child is one of those kids who can perform these tasks (and possibly more) and is not yet in first grade, you have a few options.

A January 2015 study of more than 2,000 kids in 4th to 7th grade published in Pediatrics found that children who sleep near a smartphone or another small - screen device get less sleep than kids who are not allowed to have these types of devices in their bedrooms.

We're not talking about examples of helicopter parenting run amok such as parents of college - age kids calling professors to argue about grades; but not supervising 9 - year - olds at all to the point that parents don't know who their friends are or what they are doing is not only opening a child up to potential risks and bad choices, but making them stressed as well.

MILLIONS of parents whose faith placed them in the position of not just asking, but demanding under pain of grounding or even corporal punishment, that their grade school children abstain from what others are enjoying, have still raised well adjusted kids who've gone on to be productive, contributing members of society.

From about first grade on, other kids tend to react negatively to kids who frequently become very emotional at school.

«We «ve had kids five or six years who want to know what they «ll do next, now that they «re in 6th grade, «she said.

This is what I found: the kids who were getting very good grades and were touted by the school were doing way, way, way too many hours of homework.

For kids who are going to be first - timers for kindergarten, first grade, middle school or even high school, this can help them feel more comfortable with the new place and get a better idea of where to go once they're there.

Many studies show kids who are struggling academically actually do worse when their peers move up a grade and they are left behind and can even lead to a school dropout in the future.

It's producing kids who care only about grades and test scores.

The Afterschool Alliance, an information clearinghouse and advocacy group, reports kids who participate in after - school programs have better school attendance, higher grades and loftier aspirations about graduation and college attendance.

Or you may not get a break at all if the kids balk at participating — the preschooler uncomfortable in unfamiliar turf, the grade - schooler who thinks the activities, no matter how spectacular, are «lame.»

Those kids who were already obese in fifth grade were also more likely to have reached a healthy weight by eighth grade, if they lived in a state with strict laws.

(A parental dispensation only possible for kids who haven't entered the high - school pressure cooker where — as with Sara Notte — summer homework is graded and can directly affect a student's chances to enter a top - tier university.)

Dr. Lori Rappaport: No, and let's clarify that the early years are not about academic because any kid who goes into kindergarten and doesn't know their letters, their numbers and not as fluent and stands next to a kid who is reading, at the end of first grade they are all the same.

Children who get unstructured playtime outside are healthier, earn better grades, and receive other benefits — learn more in this video from the Nature Kids Institute:

These research - grade sensors are extremely expensive and I needed evidence that this 12 year old was a serious researcher and not like my own kids who just hit my sample sensors with baseball bats.

Kindergartners and children in the early grades who get along fine with other kids may continue to adjust to the social environment at school.

«I will miss his compassion for the kids, his intelligence and all his good heartedness,» said Sabrina Watkins, a third grade teacher at Columbus who has worked there for 11 of Joseph's 12 years at the school.

The reference was to the Department of Education's plan to reserve 25 percent of seats at 17 middle schools for kids who score below grade level on state exams.

«I was the kid in second grade who knew how to spell and describe photosynthesis,» she laughs.

In her research Gomez has seen other strategies that succeed for learning math and science, especially for kids who aren't reading at grade level or whose families don't speak English at home.

I am happy to be an example of a mom who, at her worst, had a grade three prolapse, had 3 vaginal deliveries, and now 9 years later is still running, boarding, hiking, and playing without limitations with her kids.

Bailey Sissom is a 3rd grade teacher turned stay - at - home mom and the creator of Simply Sissom, a blog for busy moms who value feeding their kids healthy meals and snacks, but struggle with finding the time to make it happen.

I'd been studying psychology informally since I was in the 7th grade (I was like the Doogie Howser of mental health), and I was the kind of kid who went to college knowing exactly what she'd major in.

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.

All this may be quite enough for kids looking for something snappy to accompany their popcorn and Skittles, and certainly the two grade - schoolers who joined me for the screening giggled throughout and had a fine time.