Sentences with phrase «kids in the neighborhood»

See if other kids in the neighborhood want to get involved for a day full of fun.

When she was 10, she was the organizer of a programming - rich summer camp for kids in her neighborhood.

I played lots of team sports when I was in grammar school, and played football and basketball with kids in the neighborhood as I got older.

But I also know there are many kids in my neighborhood whose families can't yet make these choices.

They could hold an acting workshop for younger kids in the neighborhood, teach music lessons or even design a mobile app.

When she was a toddler, I would notice things and wonder, but now that she's in school and playing with more kids in the neighborhood it's affecting her life more.

Unlike most kids in our neighborhood, my sisters and I walked the mile to school, rain or shine — but not uphill both ways.

He's against charter schools for political reasons, but his political agenda isn't helping kids in my neighborhood learn how to read or improve their math skills.

Now their kids are in teens and other kids in neighborhood grown up more also so no more parties in the drive way.

That makes sense, as the public charter school movement is essentially a reaction to what can be a cookie cutter way of educating kids in neighborhood schools.

Many of the same schools that were failing kids in my neighborhood 20 years ago are still failing yet another generation of children today.

I can advocate for an alternative system because we were a conversion school, serving the same kids in the neighborhood before and after.

I believed that black and poor kids could only succeed by attending school with white, wealthy kids in their neighborhoods.

Other kids in the neighborhood agreed that they see cats everywhere.

There weren't many kids in our neighborhood, as we lived out in the country, so I learned to play by myself using my imagination.

It can also be a destination for kids in the neighborhood to come hang out for fun.

My siblings and I were always running around, riding bikes, or playing with kids in our neighborhood.

Get other kids in the neighborhood or from your child's school involved.

She also finds kids in the neighborhood like the crop, openly giggling while they sneak berries when they visit her riverfront yard.

Vandalism by kids in the neighborhood.

I've worked with a lot of kids in neighborhoods where violence was a daily reality - being tough and making people think you might hurt them, even if you actually didn't, was, for many of them, a vital survival technique.

(I don't get into Halloween as much as everyone else it seems, especially since my youngest kid is out of the house and we no longer have kids in the neighborhood who trick or treat)....

But as Paul Tough writes in his book, Whatever It Takes, about Canada and the Harlem Children's Zone, Canada had something growing up that a lot of other kids in the neighborhood didn't: a mother with a couple years of college under her belt who realized that education doesn't only happen in school.

«I'm hearing from a couple of my players that there's this tall Russian kid in the neighborhood,» says Hal (Hotsy) Reinfeld, the George Washington High basketball coach, «but they tell me he's kind of clumsy.

He was taking a big chunk of Harlem — twenty - four blocks, back then — and he was planning to address every problem that was holding back poor kids in that neighborhood, from their families to their schools to their community.

Charters are indeed good for individual families looking for a stricter disciplinary setting, but when you move all the motivated kids in a neighborhood into a charter school, the public schools experience brain drain.

Johnson went out and interviewed kids in the neighborhood and developed the concept for C - Ball after realizing how much they all cared about sports.

I've watched young kids in this neighborhood become young adults,» Rivera said.

Instead of assuming a strategically located farmer's market, for instance, will by default mean kids in the neighborhood eat less food high in fat, sugar and salt, policymakers might want to also consider emphasizing the downsides of those choices.

we also have one child, another in the works and have many kids in the neighborhood as well as running a parenting group witch has kids over a lot.

Oliver Sicat, CEO of Ednovate (the Charter Management Organization behind USC College Prep) and one of the top educational social entrepreneurs in the U.S., added, «It is a lifelong dream to see that more high quality school options are provided for underserved kids in neighborhoods like the one in Santa Ana where my family decided to start living out our American Dream.

Her demeanor changes, however, when she meets a new kid in the neighborhood whose family belongs to a doomsday religious cult.

It has plenty of room for the Berner and extra kids in the neighborhood.

Many weeks later, the older kids in the neighborhood were surprised (and more than a little envious) to hear that little Timmy had received a card in the mail from the widowed first lady:

Have you stocked up on candy for the Trick or Treating kids in the neighborhood?

Then have kids in the neighborhood scratch names and whatever they wanted to in the brick pattern.»

Vandalism by kids in the neighborhood.

Drones are among the most coveted items for aviation enthusiasts, and probably most kids in the neighborhood, too.

On the other hand, you may have to refill the bowl many times, especially if you have a number of greedy little kids in your neighborhood!

Kids in the same class become friends or you become friends with kids in the neighborhood.

We recognize that it will take some time before we're really able to call ourselves a part of the community, but we do intend to open our doors to our neighbors and host artist workshops for kids in the neighborhood, book release parties, or occasional figure drawing sessions.

My two Godsons and niece live in SC and we don't get too many kids in our neighborhood, so I've become a Halloween Scrooge.

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.

I was talking a guy this past week who said he was going to pass out Gospel tracts to the kids in the neighborhood when they came by his door.

Having said that, there are some kids in my neighborhood who love the motorcycle and playing with my dog — and have never had any problems here in Glasgow Scotland with that.