Sentences with phrase «of kindergarteners in»

For example, in a national sample of kindergarteners in the spring of the academic year, 95 % were considered proficient in letter recognition.40 In our sample, ∼ 10 % could not yet or were just beginning to easily recognize letters.

In addition to collecting the bulk of the $ 110 million in Connecticut taxpayer funds paid to charter schools, Achievement First, Inc. earned its infamy from suspending record numbers of kindergarteners in an apparent attempt to push out children who don't fit the company's limited definition of appropriate students.

Using two nationally - representative datasets, this study compares early life experiences of kindergarteners in 1998 and 2010.

10, visited a classroom of kindergarteners in Corinto, Nicaragua she asked them what they thought would happen if children's book characters Froggy and Clifford met.

Not exact matches

Now go make peanut butter and jelly banana bread and enjoy your weekend I'm off to the zoo with my kindergarteners tomorrow — wish I had a fat slice of this bread to pack in my lunch box!

After only two days as a kindergartener, I noticed how friendly she's managed to become with all of her teachers and other school staff, greeting everyone by name in the morning with a big shining smile.

It's that time of year when many are wondering what to get the graduate in their life — from college grads down through Kindergarteners — or what to buy for the Dad who «has it all» this Father's Day.

We've got lots of variety, too — truly something for everyone, from the tiniest kindergarteners to the almost - graduating high schoolers, picky eaters to adventuresome palettes, and everything in between!

A classroom of kindergarteners can vary in age from an older four - year - old to a young six - year - old.

If your kindergartener is given an assessment in the first few weeks of kindergarten the results will probably be used by your child's teacher for lesson planning for the remainder of the year.

Its effectiveness comes in the juxtaposition of poignant scenes with downright hilarious ones; Kindergartener Ruby Bridges tells Jabari how to be brave, mere moments before stepping out the door and starting her first day at an all - white school (where she's most definitely not welcomed), which is followed by Jabari messing around with his future idol, pre-President Obama, on the night of Dr. King's famed speech.

All the planning in the world won't help when your kindergartener can't open his container of cucumber slices, or can't find the string cheese at snack time.

While thinking of what you will call your child, how many people really stop to think about how many kindergarteners in five years will share their child's name.

Last week I shared a reader's account of a teacher who used candy and other junk food to teach kindergarteners the ABCs and who was oblivious to two reported food allergies in her classroom.

«Otherwise your kindergarteners will be in fifth grade before they see any changes,» said Elizabeth Walker, director of the agency's Center for Safe and Healthy Schools.

I started sleep training when I realized I didn't want to end up with a kindergartener who was still waking up in the middle of the night.

Since the school's inception in 1981, Hartsbrook has evolved from a fledgling institution with one teacher and a handful of kindergarteners to a fully accredited Waldorf school serving students from infancy through 12th grade.

Located in a house on the property of a biodynamic farm, the fledgling institution included one teacher and a handful of kindergarteners.

In fact, rather than smothering their child through each stage of growing up, many AP parents are far more drawn to «let your preschooler play in the dirt, and your kindergartener deal with the classmate who pinches her» as Attachment Parenting author Katie Allison Granju writes in her article «Attachment Parenting vs. Over-Parenting.&raquIn fact, rather than smothering their child through each stage of growing up, many AP parents are far more drawn to «let your preschooler play in the dirt, and your kindergartener deal with the classmate who pinches her» as Attachment Parenting author Katie Allison Granju writes in her article «Attachment Parenting vs. Over-Parenting.&raquin the dirt, and your kindergartener deal with the classmate who pinches her» as Attachment Parenting author Katie Allison Granju writes in her article «Attachment Parenting vs. Over-Parenting.&raquin her article «Attachment Parenting vs. Over-Parenting.»

In a fascinating study of kindergarteners, Melissa Kamins and Carol Dweck have shown that a common tactic of authoritarian caregiving — shaming a child for poor performance — can make kids perform more poorly on problem - solving tasks (Kamins and Dweck 1999).

Because of the high maximum weight, your kindergartener can stay restrained in a harness for as long as they want.

Because of this, I'll be sending one in my kindergartener's lunch box each day, so she can wipe her hands and clean up any spills.

Congresswoman Elise Stefanik reads to Kindergarteners as part of her tour of Gordon Creek Elementary School Friday, Jan. 23, 2015, in Ballston Spa, N.Y. (John Carl D'Annibale / Times Union archive)

The researchers used data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study and examined cohorts of kindergarteners from across the U.S. in 1998 and 2010.

In that study, Demorest and Pfordresher compared the singing accuracy of three groups: kindergarteners, sixth graders and college - aged adults.

But in the adult group, the gains were reversed — to the point that college students performed at the level of the kindergarteners on two of the three tasks — suggesting the «use it or lose it» effect.

In the study, researchers examined brain scans of 38 kindergarteners as they were learning to read formally at school and tracked their white matter development until third grade.

The researchers used the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class 1998 - 99 (ECLS - K), which followed a nationally representative sample of kindergarteners from the 1998 - 1999 school year through 2006 - 2007, at which time the majority of participants were enrolled in 8th grade.

«It satiates the kindergartener in all of us.»

Since our guy is just a kindergartener we weren't able to actually camp out with the older boys, but we had fun joining in on the daytime activities; shooting off rockets and making all kinds of fun crafts!

Keep in mind that out of 18 incoming kindergarteners, I had taught an older brother or sister in only three of their families.

Last year's (2012 — 13) Kindergarteners were the biggest voucher class in the school, with twenty - nine out of thirty youngsters receiving a grant.

Because of the last - minute enrollment, Anderton's son was placed in an overflow class that mixed kindergarteners and first graders whose ability levels spanned a broad range.

Ojeda - Veras kindergarteners last year eagerly awaited their Thursday chats via Skype with students in teacher Julie Horrigans kindergarten class at Watergrass Elementary School, another of the 45 elementary schools in their sprawling district.

I found those letters in my school mailbox after another productive day of teaching kindergarteners.

As one of the first steps in the process, the diagnostic screener will identify kindergarteners who are at high risk for reading difficulty, capitalizing on technology to make such screening widely available to all children.

It was based, in part, on public health models that aspire, for example, to increase numbers of annual healthy births and immunized kindergarteners and decrease things like malnutrition, disease, and teen pregnancy.

Twenty kindergarteners will not sit still at their desks or stand perfectly in line the first day — or any day — if it's for a long period of time with no structured activity.

All students and teachers gather in the reading room — the Kindergarteners sit on the laps of older students; some parents in the room; News?birthdays, awards, the acquiring of glasses.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, two out of three kindergarteners already recognize the letters of the alphabet, both in upper and lower cases, when they enter kindergarten — and that's one of the «foundational skills» expected under Common Core.

99, assesses early childhood and elementary teachers in the District of Columbia Public Schools as a master teacher, having spent 16 years in the classroom teaching kindergarteners through fifth - graders.

As part of the blocks curriculum, kindergarteners at Success work together in small groups on a crude architectural sketch before constructing a project.

In general, around 80 percent of low - SES kindergarteners and around 94 percent of high - SES kindergarteners in these heterogeneous Florida schools are ready for kindergarten, according to the statIn general, around 80 percent of low - SES kindergarteners and around 94 percent of high - SES kindergarteners in these heterogeneous Florida schools are ready for kindergarten, according to the statin these heterogeneous Florida schools are ready for kindergarten, according to the state.

Discover what computer skills kindergarteners should learn — and what activities you can use to teach them — in this column by a 30 - year veteran of kindergarten and technology classrooms.

Moskowitz has boasted on national TV and in a prominent opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal about her harsh discipline policies including her suspension of kindergarteners.

Instead, at the September 11 meeting, both local representatives and district superintendents argued passionately against the opening of Clarksdale Collegiate, described by its founder, Amanda Johnson, as a place that will prepare kindergarteners through 8th graders to «excel in high school and college by providing rigorous instruction within a structured, ambitious, and jubilant school community.»

He has led the growth of the program from 76 kindergarteners to more than 1,800 scholars in grades K - 12.

Most of the excellent teachers were founding members of the school, and were extremely invested in it and the students whom they watched grow from kindergarteners to middle - schoolers.

If an alliance district will submit to getting rid of veteran teachers (and replacing them with scab labor from TFA); getting rid of staff people, not just in the schools and central office, but in town offices as well; hand over their democratic rights to elect their officials and let a Strong Man / Woman Mayor appoint people to the Board of Ed (even non residents); remove all checks and balances in local government; and, let any reformer do whatever they want to children, who will be guinea pigs for reform, drill - and - kill, «no excuses» punishments of preschoolers and kindergarteners — THEN Malloy will release money for leaky roofs and essential remediation of toxins.

It follows that out of the group of 182 ESA users, three kindergarteners would have enrolled in a private school without financial assistance.