Sentences with phrase «of the kindergarteners on»

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.

When we arrive with our dogs, Jake and Betty, the excitement rivals a busload of kindergarteners on a field trip to Disneyland.

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We especially love the newest: Chicago Children's Theatre's Spring Ahead Camp at The Station where kindergarteners - fifth - graders create a mini-show of singing, storytelling and dancing all about their hopes and dreams, then perform it on stage.

The new 650 - calorie limit on a kindergartener's lunch was set by the Institute of Medicine based on 1/3 of a child's daily recommended caloric intake.

So said, Alex, my kindergartener, as I frantically raced through the back streets of Berkeley, cursing under my breath, clenching the steering wheel, snapping at my boys, all the while attempting to get them to their soccer matches on time.

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.

Now that we have some basics out of the way, let's move on to our picks for your tots, kindergarteners, tweens, and teens.

Sophie's 6 month schedule... or Mommys wan na b schedule.I get up at 6:30 am to get myself ready wake up a 5 yr old and 3 yr old for school let them get dressed when one is not throwing a tantrum or teasing the other one by now its 7:30 a send them to eat and then brush their teeth while I dress the baby who has been very paTient... out the house by 8 for kindergartener to get there on time and next stop grandmas we get her to nurse... and get preschooler to school by 8:30 and I'm off to work I pump by 12p and collect 6oz for her afternoon... grandma feeds her again at 11:30 a. Of breast milk and sometimes it's 5oz / 6oz... we sometimes get her a4oz formula bottle with her cereal.I pick up brothers from school at 1and go drop off with grandma and feed Baby again... she gets 5oz bill around 3:30 p and I get home at 6 pm to nurse her and then get food for the kids and don't forget homework... baby gets her veggies... and mom gets Cold

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

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).

David Schwake (RD, SNS) isn't above dressing like a carrot or an apple if it will put a smile on a student's face, and there is nothing he likes more than being swarmed by a room full of kindergarteners who... Continue reading →

INDIAN LAKE A local kindergartener will appear on the popular holiday program «Melodies of Christmas» this week.

I felt like a kindergartener at an end - of - the - soccer - season pizza party with trophies for all: «Most Punctual,» «Best Scrunchie,» and so on.

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!

This makes for either a dangerously moody teenager or a very terrifying kindergartener, depending on the circumstances and one's point of view.

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.

Peter Greene, the author of the aptly named «Curmudgucation» blog, had a post the other day lambasting a classroom management system which, assuming he's representing it accurately, rates kindergarteners» behavior on a spectrum from «Democracy» and «Cooperation / Compliance» down to «Bullying» and «Bossing» and — the lowest level --» Anarchy.»

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.

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

We have them draft «I can do X, Y, and Z» testimonials that foist an «adult - centric sense of personal agency on kindergarteners who really couldn't care less if they can «use and understand verbs and adjectives by knowing their opposites.

With kindergarteners, she'll have them identify the front and back of a book or show her where you start reading on a page.

After a half - day of staff meetings, a tour of the building with the school secretary, and a hearty good luck from my building principal, I was on my own — with 30 quivering kindergarteners.

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.

Despite different findings on kindergarten's long - term effect on student achievement or how full - day programs differ from half - day in terms of quality and instruction, the issue remains that the amount of instructional time kindergarteners receive varies considerably from state to state, and district to district.

By the end of the year, 96 percent of kindergarteners reached or exceeded the proficient mark on the same STEP test.

BEIJING — China's education ministry ordered a nationwide investigation on Tuesday into whether schools are giving students medication without permission after a protest by parents of kindergarteners who were given an antiviral drug.

On the STEP (Strategic Teaching and Evaluation of Progress) test, developed for high - risk children by the University of Chicago, 91 % of kindergarteners were at or above grade level.

Year over year, the number of Spanish - speaking kindergarteners at Vardaman Elementary School in northeast Mississippi has been on the rise.

Judy Harris Helm, who owns her own educational consulting company, is a bestselling author of numerous books on early childhood education and the mother of two grown girls who thrived on project work;, Stacy Berg is Director of the Northminster Learning Center and the mother of an infant, a preschooler, and a kindergartener;, and Pam Scranton is a preschool teacher and the mother of a teenager and two elementary school age boys..

KIDS allows teachers to reduce the variety of assessments on isolated standards and instead have more time to observe kindergarteners in their natural environment.

The average Kindergartener would tell you that rabbits lived on carrots, but those of us who actually have to look after rabbits know the truth: bunnies eat strange, mostly unappealing diets.

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).