Sentences with phrase «many middle graders»

From the big «WOW» books for middle graders, to a wonderfully touching picture book for young readers as well as new and expecting moms, to affordable stocking stuffers.

The pages of her novels for middle graders and young adults sing with insights into humanity.

«We are extremely excited to offer the Citizen Schools experience to our middle graders at the East Somerville Community School to complement our current out of school time offerings.»

One of them was Lori Vollandt, the health coordinator of the district, who referred to many middle graders as «hormones with arms and legs.»

Help middle graders take the next step in environmental studies & awareness.

In a a 2007 report, the district noted that the math performance of black and Latino middle graders was behind that of their white and Asian peers.

Another edition of this book is being published for middle graders (see p. 48).

Me: I think you are absolutely right — there has to be a shift in the gatekeepers» willingness to buy ebooks for middle graders (the librarians, teachers, parents, grandparents).

She is the author of more than two dozen award - winning books for young adults, middle graders and children; among her many accolades, she is a four - time Newbery Honor winner, a four - time National Book Award finalist, and a two - time Coretta Scott King Award winner.

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The organization raised the funds to purchase micro: bits for a pilot program focused on 25 middle - school classrooms, with the eventual goal of purchasing the device for every 7th grader attending the county's schools.

Her youngest daughter Adriana, is a seventh grader at Westglades Middle School and is also involved in the Drama Club at WMS.

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I associated Ice Cube with a horrifyingly ridiculous speech I heard in a classroom by some handsome full - of - himself black 12th - grader, about how Ice Cube was his hero because he had inspired him to avoid crack and gangs, as if it were some heroic thing for this guy who apparently had pretty middle - class parents to avoid falling into those, and as if Ice Cube had not in fact glamorized the gang life, overt misogyny, etc..

Christian McCaffrey PARKER, COLO. > FOOTBALL Christian, a seventh - grader at St. Thomas More Parish School and a running back on the Parker Hawks youth team, was named the West's MVP after its 24 — 14 win over the East in the first FBU Youth All - American Bowl for middle schoolers.

By then an eighth - grader who stood 6» 7», Greg was enrolled at Craig Middle School and joined a school team that included Mike Conley Jr. at point guard.

Isabella, a seventh - grader at Conackamack Middle School and a second - degree black belt, won six individual titles competing in the girls» ages 9 — 11, second - and third - degree black - belt level at the American Taekwondo Association's world championships in Little Rock.

In the meantime, says his volleyball coach Lou Panzella, Marcus will be the same friendly kid he first saw play as an eighth grader at Black Diamond middle school.

Middle School camp for rising 6th, 7th, 8th Graders is geared towards providing each girl with individual instruction focused on fundamental skill improvement and confidence development.

In a landmark experiment in 2006, Cohen and a colleague, Julio Garcia, tested a wise intervention designed to counteract this anxiety with a group of underachieving seventh - graders at a suburban middle school in New England.

The school is currently expanding its program to serve Middle School students and will be accepting new seventh graders in the fall of 2014, and new eighth graders in the fall of 2015.

The Wapakoneta Middle School in Ohio has reportedly decided to pander to bigots given the parents of seventh graders the options to have their kids skip the lesson on Islam because «some topics are sensitive,» the principal said to Buzzfeed.

«I thought for sure my graduating 5th grader would stop taking your product to Middle School in the fall.

Games and sports become more individualized in the middle school years: fifth graders learn the events of the Greek Pentathlon — javelin, discus, long jump, wrestling, and running — that culminates in an Olympiad hosted by a regional Waldorf school each spring.

We 5th graders of Orchard Middle School salute you, Lt. Cook, and the crew of the USS Nimitz.

One ad features a middle - aged dad with a goatee telling a group of fellow parents that his first - grader cried when he came home from school, apparently too tired to go to karate practice.

Nick Kirkpatrick, a sixth - grader at Columbia (Ill.) Middle School, had just finished competing in his heat at a 2007 Oklahoma track meet for athletes with physical disabilities.

Our 6th - graders at Randolph Middle School in Randolph, N.J., wrote holiday cards as a class project.

But now, the Baltimore eighth - grader's tray features beds of greens and fruits and vegetables that are available at her middle school through a salad bar option that is sprouting up in school cafeterias around the city.

Preparing for Middle School: Grade 8 No getting around it — the 8th grader will rebel passionately and frequently.

Capacity: The new two - story facility, with a capacity of 1,600 students (an increase of 400 from the former campus), allows for the standard middle school configuration of Grades 6 - 8 on one campus... which provides sixth - graders with greater opportunity for academic rigor, fine arts and career electives and athletic and extra-curricular activities, as well as 30 additional minutes of instructional time each day, compared to an elementary schedule.

Pick up kids from school, go on a middle school tour for my fourth grader (where my four - year - old complained for an hour about being bored) and then drop off both kids at dance.

Cindy Garcia, an eighth - grader at Vista Middle School, says having free water available in cups during the UCLA / RAND research program changed her drinking habits.

It's just something that no one should have to go to in the middle of a school year, or at all,» said Angelina Mistretta, an eighth grader at City Honors School.

The Massapequa school board on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017, authorized a lawsuit in connection with the state education commissioner's decision last week barring the district from canceling plans to move sixth - graders into Berner Middle School in September.

The Massapequa school board Tuesday authorized a lawsuit in connection with the state education commissioner's decision last week barring the district from canceling plans to integrate sixth - graders into the middle school.

As the sound of students coming back from lunch filled the hallways, Caroline Skahen, a fifth - grader at Jamesville - Dewitt Middle School and her classmates were in the computer lab, quietly focused on their screens.

The fifth grader at East Brook Middle School, was on a class field trip to Waterloo Village, when the school bus overturned and was ripped apart, landing on an interstate's center median, -LSB-...]

The family of a 12 - year - old Muslim middle school student has filed a $ 25 million federal lawsuit against the East Islip school district, claiming the seventh - grader's civil rights were violated when school officials forced him to sign a false confession saying he was a terrorist.

The occasion for my visit was a reunion of Global Tech's first class of eighth - graders, who were now, four years after their middle - school commencement, graduating from high school.

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People flocked to a Massapequa school board meeting on Aug. 3, 2017, when the agenda focused on the plan to move sixth - graders districtwide into Alfred G. Berner Middle School with the seventh - and eighth - graders.

Among the students honored by Bove at West Seneca West Middle School on Wednesday was Julianna Owczarczak, an 8th grader who joins her peers and suggests that ending bullying starts with simply offering more respect for their peers.

Two K - 9 police dogs, their handlers and Sheriff Timothy B. Howard joined 14 seventh - graders from Hamburg Middle School to encourage county lawmakers to support a state bill bumping...

Two K - 9 police dogs, their handlers and Sheriff Timothy B. Howard joined 14 seventh - graders from Hamburg Middle School to encourage county lawmakers to support a state bill bumping up the penalties for injuring or killing service animals in law enforcement.

I took to middle school wrestling as a rather scrawny 80 - pound eighth grader, and in so doing, ironically became all too conscious of my homosexual orientation.

Eighth graders at Pennsauken Phifer Middle School in New Jersey will examine the growth rate in microgravity of penicillium, which future astronauts could grow as an antibiotic to treat infections.

Made up of scores from 550,000 fourth and eighth graders from more than 40 countries, the assessment shows a handful of East Asian countries scored among the highest, whereas U.S. students wound up in the middle of the pack.

Owens, Whitaker and colleagues analyzed 2,017 online surveys completed by 7th — to 12th - graders from 19 middle and high schools in Fairfax County, VA..

WEST ORANGE, N.J. — Mohnish Sabhani, a 7th grader at Park Middle School in Scotch Plains, N.J., designed a gaming app for Android devices to benefit Kessler Foundation, a public charity that improves quality of life for people with disabilities.

Fifty seventh - and eighth - graders from John Witherspoon Middle School in Princeton came to PPPL for a half day on March 4 to become scientists — doing a variety of hands - on science activities, from building a motor to sampling ice cream frozen with liquid nitrogen in a cryogenics demonstration, to watching cool plasma demonstrations of lightning, static electricity and stars.