Sentences with word «kindergartner»

Scores on reading and math were lowest for kindergartners in households with incomes below the federal poverty level and highest for those in households with incomes at or above 200 percent of the federal poverty level.

As of 2011, roughly 70 percent of New York City public school students were Black and Latino, while more than 70 percent of kindergartners in gifted and talented programs were White or Asian.

Is it fear of these harder tests making teachers resort to educational jargon with kindergartners who can't yet read?

In PS 247, an elementary school in Brooklyn, a class of kindergartners who began the year speaking only Chinese made a partnership with theater artists through New York City's Center for Arts Education; by year's end, they were performing folk and fairy tales on stage — entirely in English.

Now, she is working with kindergartners at Pioneer Preparatory School: A Challenge Foundation Academy who are similar to her first students from more than 40 years ago, trying to learn English while adjusting to the rigors of elementary school and, for some, living in a new country.

The Christian Liberty Academy in Arlington Heights is a recognized leader in the Christian school movement, serving 800 students in a day school for kindergartners through high school seniors, as well as 35,000 students nationwide and abroad enrolled in a full - service home - school program.

Children who live in a small Carrollton neighborhood will still get automatic admission to Lusher Charter School next year, but only if they enter as kindergartners, based on a policy the board voted Saturday to extend to the 2011 - 2012 school year.

«Eyes on the ceiling,» Hardy said forcefully one day, redirecting a lesson one of her teachers was delivering to a restless group of kindergartners on forming letters.

Every scholar has the opportunity to become a leader - from Kindergartners through 5th grade.

Not only has this skirt survived the dust of India, but I also wear it to work (I substitute teach) and it tends to be used as a Kleenex by kindergartners from time - to - time.

Ease your way into teaching kindergartners hands - on ways to learn with the VersaTiles Kindergarten Starter Set.

A certain kindergartner not quite ready to turn on the faucet and get the water going is ready for his bath.

The World Course kicks off by helping kindergartners see that «our world is diverse and beautiful, and we can learn about it different ways, like counting, interviewing, describing, storytelling and viewing pictures.»

While most kindergartners don't eat a lot, you want a lunch box that will fit most standard to - go containers.

For example, in cooking class, kindergartners learn with eighth graders.

The schools worth bragging about are those where students feel as though they're part of a caring community, where even kindergartners get the chance to write stories, and where the teachers create democratic classrooms so that kids learn how to make good decisions.

~ Chicago Tribune Nov. 13, 2017 Like kindergartners pushed to be first graders, high school is the new college.

You might have expected a certain amount of whining and clinging when you leave your toddler at day care or with a babysitter, but why is your soon - to - be kindergartner getting teary when you go out to dinner with your spouse?

Aww the thought of kindergartners reading to puppies is so adorable!

Consider how kindergartners may not only sound out their letters, but also demonstrate an early interest in reading by creating videos on how they would teach that concept to preschoolers and others in the community.

Most kindergartners at Federal Heights Elementary School are minority students on free or reduced lunch.

As many parents of kindergartners know, these declarations of independence can often result in a battle of wills.

The one - third of entering kindergartners who don't know all their letter names are likely to become the one - third of 4th graders reading below the basic level.

The bottom line is that most U.S. schools have no plan to provide the sorts of classroom instruction that at - risk kindergartners need.

When kindergartners in one study were offered a cho...

We read the chart together with their names — a first reading experience in the classroom for many kindergartners!

Kindergartners spend a lot of time on counting, and once t...

The mediums would probably fit the average kindergartner.

An analysis of absenteeism in Iowa of early - elementary students from the 2010 - 11 school year through third grade in 2013 - 14 shows that nearly 40 percent of elementary schools have rates of chronic absence among kindergartners in excess of 10 percent.

Help kindergartners take their first steps toward learning phonemic awareness, letter recognition, colors and shapes, patterns, classification, and more!

In California alone thousands of new kindergartners arrive on the scene each year, Luis discovered.

«Genuine Midwestern manners are proudly in evidence: Even the youngest kindergartners eagerly hold the door open for you.

The resolution adopted this month arose from growing concerns about the safety of students, prompted by a sexual attack on a 5 - year - old kindergartner in an elementary school restroom.

Down the hall, kindergartners wrote about their favorite desert animals, talked with a partner about where cacti grow, and chanted about biomes:

The school's enrollment is 645, which includes kindergartners who do not stay all day.

HER bow flopping on her head, Kylie Cao pirouetted alongside her fellow kindergartners in pink tutus and black leotards.

First - time kindergartners in 2010 — 11: First findings from the kindergarten rounds of the early childhood longitudinal study, kindergarten class of 2010 — 11

A 2003 study of the mouths of healthy kindergartners found that 97 percent harbored bacteria with genes for resistance to four out of six tested antibiotics.

«Kindergartners love to step into the role of a bigger kid,» adds Smith.

Based on the work of one of the world's foremost child development experts, Rest, Play, Grow offers a road map to making sense of young children, and is what every toddler, preschooler, and kindergartner wished we understood about them.

Other kindergartners may just need a little extra tutoring or social skills training.