Sentences with phrase «neighborhood children at»

Eventually, DCPS plans to guarantee preschool slots for neighborhood children at all its high - poverty schools, but for this coming school year that policy is in place at only five schools.

Not exact matches

The community - built playground at Parque Agua Santa will not only provide thousands of children with a safe place to play, but also engage the residents with the city of Puebla, AMA Mexico, Parques de Mexico and families from surrounding neighborhoods in a transformative partnership to improve the entire community.

Children not among the targeted audience: those who worry about having enough food to last through the weekend, those who wonder why their father is no longer at home, and those who must learn to avoid neighborhood violence.

Each April, yard signs spring up in all the affluent neighborhoods in town, proclaiming support for an event aimed at children ages ten through fourteen.

This was all so that my best friend and I could spend some time traveling in Europe where we would meet irresistibly handsome and rich identical twins with Australian accents (we had a thing for the, «G'Day, Mate,»), get married on Regis and Kathy Lee at Cinderella's Castle in Disney World, and then live next to each other, raising adorable little children in our idyllic neighborhood.

One of the reasons children in Gaza were dying is that Palestinian terrorists deliberately put them at risk by locating their rocket launchers next to schools and residential neighborhoods.

I hope «Christianity» is the right religion, if it is not then I have wasted a lot of time and money, or perhaps not, for if one lives up to the values, beliefs and principles of true Christianity that one would be one of the nicest people to live on Earth with and as a child of 6 I realized I did not like any of the people in my neighborhood very much, not much at all.

Unemployment in the South Bronx was at 45 percent; of the 1,900 to 2,000 children enrolled at Morris High School, only about 65 graduated each year; and, many of the children were afflicted with asthma, something Kozol associated with the neighborhood's incinerators for discarded medical supplies.

The only spectators are a handful of girl friends, wives and children who cheer on their heroes and after the games join them for dinner at the neighborhood pizza parlor.

In Gulfport, where he moved in 2009, neighborhood children along Stanton Circle would come knocking at his door, asking him to toss a football.

This weekend has lots of fun in store: Music and dance exploration for preschoolers at the Duraleigh Road Community Library in Raleigh, Christmas tree - lighting ceremonies in lots of Triangle towns, breakfast with Santa in Durham, a bird - watching hike in Raleigh, an art market in Raleigh's Boylan Heights neighborhood and pay - what - you - can admission day at Kidzu Children's Museum in Chapel Hill.

Have you ever noticed that the children seem to have just as much fun at a neighborhood park as at a far - away, expensive and hard to plan vacation?

Little Groove also does a lot of free programs at the public libraries, classes in different neighborhoods including a weekend class in Back Bay, and two classes a week at the Children's Museum.

September 1: It's the grand opening of Nature's Neighborhoods Children's Zoo at the Franklin Park Zoo (Boston)

If organized activities aren't your thing (or aren't offered in your area), there's plenty you can do with your child at home and around your neighborhood.

Help your tween develop possible conversation starters, and encourage your child to approach children who are new at school or in the neighborhood.

Growing up I was the neighborhood babysitter; watching anywhere from 2 - 5 children at a time ranging in age from 2 years old to a 14 - year - old with Aspergers.

The Great Hope Family Center in the Little Village neighborhood provides food to about 100 families each month as well as meals for the 160 men, women and children who stay at its shelter.

If a dog is loose in your neighborhood or at the park, don't let your child go near it.

Some your child can tackle at home, others are for school, your neighborhood, or the community.

By watching what your child's swim coach does, you will undoubtedly gain an understanding and a sense of what to do to further your child's swim lessons at your home or neighborhood pool.

Jones, 58, said the festival is not a solution to the neighborhood's troubles, but at least it gives children someplace to go for a day.

Good habits start young — and affordably — at any of our city's neighborhood library branches; one of our favorites is the gigantic Conrad Sulzer Regional Library, with plenty of sunny nooks, a welcoming children's section and even a spot for your kid to (ahem) school you at chess.

So we are trying a new charter school in the area for next year for my oldest while my next child will stay at the neighborhood school.

Parents often worry about whether or not their child will be bullied at school, on the sports field, or in the neighborhood.

The Gold Coast and Lincoln Park neighborhoods are home to at least 13 playlots and playgrounds, according to the Park District, as well as a few «tot lots» for very young children.

As a result, you should encourage your child to cast a wide net and seek out friendships in their neighborhood, at school, on a team, through a club, and at church.

Your child may have friends at school or in the neighborhood but do they have a few really solid friendships?

If you're lucky enough to find a good provider in your neighborhood, so much the better — your child will feel even more at home.

And then I come home and see the beauty of our culturally diverse neighborhood; projects yes, but a dozen countries represented, children tearing about in the nearby parks hollering at each other in a dozen different languages, and I know our multi-cultural-ministry hearts are planted here for a reason.

He also spoke at a Martin Luther King Day celebration at Wesleyan University and to a group in Columbia, South Carolina, that is trying to establish what they're calling a Promise Zone, modeled after the Harlem Children's Zone, in the city's Eau Claire neighborhood.

These moms focus their lenses on their children, on their neighborhoods, on their daily grinds at work and on welfare.

Two buses stopped at 5:40 p.m. in the Pilsen neighborhood, after some of the children within became faint, a Chicago Fire Department spokesman said.

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While many families in this area move east of the tunnel to attend better public schools, Berkeley Rose Waldorf School can meet their children's educational needs at an affordable tuition cost and reduce the relocation of local families away from their current neighborhoods and homes.

And above all, I can not for the life of me figure out why our dogs can have food without added soy products, preservatives, and artificial food coloring, but I can't take my youngest child to our trendy neighborhood cupcake shop because there's not a flavor there without food dyes (never mind what's on offer at the groceries and convenience stores along the same street).

She actively teaches the Ruhi children's class material developed by the Ruhi Institute, and has developed a supplemental curriculum for children ages 0 - 2 and ages 3 - 5 which has been very successful in her work at the neighborhood - level building community with families.

So not only are the rules of the game screwed up, but in low - income neighborhoods, foodservice directors are fighting an uphill battle of child preferences because of what they kids are eating at home.

All kids grow at different paces, so you can't determine whether your child will be short or tall just from comparing her to other kids at school or in the neighborhood.

It's relatively easy to control a child's nutrition when they're still at home, but I've found that once they leave the nest, whether it's for a childcare setting, preschool, kindergarten, or even for neighborhood playdates, all bets are off.

The children at the Fresh Foods distribution, who were not even 10 years old, were already considerably behind in terms of academic and enrichment opportunities than their peers from the more affluent neighborhood.

The grants are going to: Ravinia Festival, $ 300,000 over three years for arts education and programming at Lawndale community organizations; Chicago Children's Museum, $ 80,000 for general operations; Steppenwolf Theatre Company, $ 80,000 for general operations; Association House, $ 75,000 for its integrated arts program; Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, $ 75,000 for general operations; Northwestern University Settlement Association, $ 75,000 for arts programming in the West Town and Humboldt Park neighborhoods; and WTTW - Ch. 11, $ 75,000 for the Artbeat Chicago program series.

Two children were struck and killed by a car while in a crosswalk in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn yesterday afternoon, police said, at an intersection that has long been considered hazardous for pedestrians.

McMahon said at least five children in the neighborhood have Lyme disease and plenty of adults have reported tick bites.

Now we're able to send our children to a middle school in our neighborhood,» Debra Millman, who has a 7 - year - old at nearby P.S. 59, told DNAinfo.com New York.

The Erie County Health Department has concentrated its inspections for lead paint to houses in at - risk neighborhoods where children live.

And while P.S. 234 did not have room for the eight additional kindergartners who moved to the neighborhood over the summer and tried to register at the last minute, even those children will not have to go to P.S. 130, Ripperger said.

The public - service novice, who has spent her entire career in media and publishing, also dropped jaws at the meeting by likening her task of satisfying space - crunch concerns in every neighborhood to making «many Sophie's Choices» — a reference to the book in which a mother in the Auschwitz death camp is forced to decide which of her two children will live.

HARLEM — When it opens next year, Broadway Housing Communities» 124 units of affordable housing and children's museum at 155th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue in Sugar Hill will provide the Upper Manhattan neighborhood with a much - needed boost, said city officials who broke ground on the project Thursday.

Among the concessions to neighbors would be greater access to the school's athletic events, scholarships for neighborhood children to participate in sports camps and a public dock at the waterfront.