Sentences with phrase «of elementary children»

The Teacher - Child Rating Scale: A brief objective measure of elementary children's school problem behaviours and competences

During my undergraduate studies, I assisted teachers with early childhood education programs, coordinated summer camps for sixth - graders, and guided small groups of elementary children on nature hikes as part of their field trip program.

An increasing proportion of elementary children were retained or identified as handicapped in grades K - 2, the grades that preceded the grade - 3, high - stakes reading assessment.

In one study of elementary children fed cafeteria meals of green beans and pasta, children preferred the saltier options over the non-salted ones.

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The company also faced intense, unwanted attention in the aftermath of the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Conn. where 26 people, including children, were killed by a gunman armed with, among other weapons, a Remington Bushmaster assault rifle.

Lloyd Blankfein's path tothe pinnacle of finance nearly rivals for degree of difficulty that of his legendary predecessor Sidney Weinberg, who was one of eleven children of a Brooklyn bootlegger and started working at Goldman Sachs as a gofer shining spittoons, in 1907, a few years removed from elementary school.

Most kids are native technology users by the time they enter elementary school, with 8 out of 10 5 - to -8-year-olds using mobile devices, compared with only half of all children just two years ago.

It was abandoned by some of its investors after one of its Bushmaster rifles was used in the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting in Connecticut in 2012 that killed 20 children and six adults.

Following the 2012 shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, that left 20 children and six adults dead, Dick's suspended the sale of certain kinds of semiautomatic rifles.

I didn't buy «Japan is Number One» when that was the mantra two decades ago, because Japan had severe demographic problems» as in, very few children; its lack of the most basic form of people power in the most elementary form, I thought, would soon become evident in economic weakness (as it has).

Why is it religious and sectarian when an elementary school teacher prays in front of a class room of children, but a mere nonreligious solemnization when a President stands in front of the nation and swears, on a Bible, so help him God, to carry out the office to which he has been entrusted?

One of six children, he grew up walking to Mass and attended Catholic school from elementary through high school.

Religion News Service: Fred Phelps» son condemns Westboro's plan to picket Newtown funerals The estranged son of a Kansas pastor famous for protesting the funerals of soldiers and AIDS victims has condemned his family's plans to picket the funerals of the 26 people — including 20 children — who were killed when a gunman stormed a Connecticut elementary school.

For elementary school children the game is primarily physical, kinetic; but to older children I read my poem «Plaint of the Summer Vampires,» which pretends to be a lament voiced by a mosquito and a deerfly.

In this most elementary area of parent - child relationships, such a notion rescues discipline from connotations of punishment and has the further virtue of counseling foresight, according to which the best disciplining parent is the one who anticipates that from which the child alone can not protect himself and does something about it before the child is injured.

They have two children, James, an army officer who is headed for Afghanistan as a translator of Farsi, and Caitlin, who finishes up at Washington University in St. Louis this May and then plans on serving a two - year stint teaching inner - city elementary - school kids for Teach for America.

He showed up at one of his children's elementary schools with cupcakes and gave her the surprise of her life.

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place but without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living, and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words — father, mother, spouse, parents — retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs, or pawns in a power struggle.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

There are only 26 Caucasian children in a student population of 11,000 in the elementary schools that serve this district of the Bronx.

Merle M. Ohlsen describes group counseling of adolescents and children in schools.9 Helen Driver reports on two groups for high school seniors, three groups for college students, and four leaderless teachers» groups.10 The second part of Driver's book reports on forty - four projects using small groups in elementary, high school, college, and graduate professional schools (as well as mental health settings), as described by the leaders of each group.

The first was a conversation with a young couple who were reflecting on the problem of finding modest, non-sexualizing clothes for their very young daughters, a point which led them to express concern about the educationally sanctioned sexualization of even elementary school children.

Of the converts to Catholicism studied by Dean Hoge, «85 % said they received religious training as children, and 83 % said they attended Sunday school or church two or three times a month or more when they were in elementary school.

I long for a society in which modernity would have its full place, without implying the denial of elementary principles of human and familial ecology; for a society in which the diversity of ways of being, of living and of desiring is accepted as fortunate, without allowing this diversity to be diluted in the reduction to the lowest common denominator, which effaces all differentiation; for a society in which, despite the technological deployment of virtual realities and the free play of critical intelligence, the simplest words» father, mother, spouse, parents» retain their meaning, at once symbolic and embodied; for a society in which children are welcomed and find their place, their whole place, without becoming objects that must be possessed at all costs or a pawns in a power struggle.

In fact a common exercise in elementary schools is to ask children to draw up their genealogical trees, because this exercise allows the child to situate himself in relation to his father and his mother and thus also in relation to the rest of society.

I have a friend who was a child integrating a white public elementary school after the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964.

Every time I'm inspired to do something out of my comfort zone (royal icing, fondant, cake pops), the result looks more like it was created by an elementary school - aged child than it does a Bakerella piece of edible art.

Our goal is for every school in the United States to have a salad bar as part of their school food service program so that every child — from elementary school, to middle school, to high school — has daily access to fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and healthy proteins.

Focusing on choice at the elementary level will impact eating for the rest of children's lives.

This annual fundraiser benefits Veggie U < http://www.veggieu.org >, a non-profit children's education program that teaches the importance of nutrition and sustainable agriculture by providing interactive lesson plans with a classroom garden kit to elementary schools and special needs students.

With summer on my mind and grilling season firing up, I knew this yummy, kid - friendly, island - inspired recipe for Sweet Hawaiian Mini Burgers would be perfect for a cooking demonstration I put on last night for a group of families and their elementary - aged children.

The four youngest of Nichole's seven children — Malik, Brian, a senior at Douglass, and two sisters in elementary and middle school — live in the home.

In gathering his material, Schwartz first made a few records of very elementary children's games.

Tyler reads stories to elementary school children and, for the past two years, has been a date at An Evening of Dreams, a Sacramento event that gives special needs teens and young adults a full prom red - carpet experience.

My children's needs were more than adequately met by being at home with their father / grandmother (or later on preschool and then elementary school) during the 1/3 of the day that I wasn't with them.

The Valley School 318 30th Avenue E Seattle, WA 98112 www.thevalleyschool.org The Valley School is a child centered elementary school located in the Madison Valley area of Seattle.

As a single mom to 1 child, I routinely faced that sort of situation in the early elementary ages.

If your child is doing more than 10 minutes or so per grade of homework in elementary school, an hour or so in middle school and 2 - 2 1/2 hours in high school then they are working past the point of homework providing any advantage.

I then made a huge parental mistake by moving my children out of that environment into another elementary school based on guidance from community members telling me that the school system I was entering was much better.

As you send your elementary aged child to school with items from their list of school supplies, consider showing a little love to their new teacher with these helpful tools they are sure to enjoy now and be sure to help replenish classroom supplies throughout the school year.

In addition, the MomsRising members have helped get every child in elementary, middle school and high school access to healthier foods in school, as well as get junk food marketing out of the schools so that kids have healthier food options while they are in school.

It touches the heart to watch our little children move from their elementary school world to the limbo land of middle school.

As a parent of an elementary aged child, and having shared meals in the school cafeteria with my child's class, on more than one occasion, this may actually work.

Introduce your elementary - aged children to the world of fractions with this highly ranked, educational app.

The class teacher, therefore, accompanies the same class of children through the elementary years, teaching all the main subjects.

There are so many millions of children who not only eat lunch at school but, even when I was in elementary school (I'm 28 now) we had a breakfast program where lower - income kids would eat breakfast at school too.

When you child goes and your older child goes and get a test far away, it's not telling you anything about how their vision is working up close and think about where elementary kids spend most of their time it's up close.

Effect of breakfast composition on cognitive processes in elementary school children.

When your child leaves the cozy confines of elementary school for larger middle and high schools, it's a big transition — both for your young student and for you.

Your older child may need to get to school earlier than in elementary school, and that means getting out of bed could become a real challenge.