Sentences with phrase «kindergarten and the first grade because»

The fellowship program lasts four months and focuses first on parents with children enrolled in kindergarten and the first grade because, Gulati explains, brain development during this time is crucial and needs to be addressed in the beginning phases of students» education.

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Violet was the chubbiest chicken of all chubby chickens and maybe it's because I'm feeling emotional about the fact that she is officially moving on to first grade (after finishing kindergarten this spring) but seriously, those photos are WRECKING ME [insert ugly tears]!

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.

Because kindergarten has become more academic and often mirrors what used to be first grade, children often start kindergarten around the age of six.

We excluded kindergarten and first - grade teachers because earlier achievement exams were not available for their students; this prevented us from developing a «value - added» measure of student learning.

I know, and a lot of teachers know, they're totally inappropriate for children in kindergarten, first grade, second grade and third grade, because when they were written there was no one on various writing committees who was an expert in early childhood education... They're also totally inappropriate for children who have disabilities — they can't keep up.

Because half of school resource officer programs (and other law enforcement) are patrolling elementary school hallways, it means that even kids in kindergarten and first grade are being criminalized at early ages.

After six weeks he plopped me back in kindergarten, and just as it started looking like I might have a normal life after all, suddenly, in the second week of first grade, he walked right into the classroom and yanked me out once again, because he'd been overcome with the fear that he was leaving my impressionable brain «in the folds of Satan's underpants.»