Sentences with phrase «sixth grade kids»

They all stand around like sixth grade kids at their first boy - girl dance.

Keep your first - sixth grade kids on their toes!

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Common Threads classmates (mostly kids in fourth to sixth grades) chopped rutabagas, potatoes and onions like pros as they bragged about their newfound ability to make sushi, cupcakes and pasta in unique shapes.

Raised by a single mother without a lot of money, she moved around a lot, spent some time homeless and got into lots of trouble as a kid — you know, acted out, got put in the «slow» class in sixth grade.

It is in fifth and sixth grade that kids begin to tackle more complicated materials in math, reading and other subjects.

This age is a critical juncture in a child's life, as kids typically decrease their activity levels by 50 percent between fifth and sixth grades, said Rod Dishman, the study's lead author and a professor of kinesiology in the UGA College of Education.

I think that kids get turned off to science at some point — fifth grade, sixth grade, seventh grade — when science is perceived as too hard and too complicated.

All kids must have their Tdap booster within the first 30 days of entering the sixth grade.

Fourth graders who showed signs of depression were more likely than their classmates to be victimized as fifth graders, and kids who were picked on in fifth grade tended to be less accepted by their peers in sixth grade.

For Clark, it's the summer before sixth grade, and he quickly finds that as the new - in - town bi-racial kid, in order to be cool he needs to act more «black.»

From its inception, Citizen Schools has focused on kids in sixth, seventh, and particularly eighth grade because, as Schwarz suggests about middle school's «capstone year,» intervention at this point is most likely «to prevent kids from voting with their feet and dropping out later on.»

«In our district, kids learned about U.S. history from the colonial era to the Civil War in sixth grade and Reconstruction to the present in seventh grade,» he says.

«I used to say kids» petitions had no place in schools,» said Williams, who oversees the kindergarten through sixth grade school in Modesto, California.

32 Vigorous exercise can lead to academic gains; many kids drinking alcohol by sixth grade, study shows; students read about bays and keep track of miles as they run across America.»

These kids were entering sixth grade but reading at a second - or third - grade level, and I just didn't know the answer to the following question: How do you get a kid like that to read at grade level?

In this system, a third grader reading at a sixth - grade level can read that level of books with other kids at the same reading level, regardless of their grade in school.

I love being able to engage them in the kind of rigorous discussions they aren't ready for until around sixth grade, and then I love getting hugs once in a while (in contrast to elementary school kids, who want hugs eight times a day, every day).

Both sixth - grade teachers share the kids and share that responsibility of creating unity among both classes.

«By sixth grade, middle - class kids have spent 6,000 more hours in extracurricular learning programs than poor students, according to The After - School Corporation.»

YES Prep North Central in Houston, Texas, involves families in a variety of ways, including family nights, frequent check - ins, and learning contracts signed by the student and the parents before the kids enter sixth grade.

Based on my experience, I think it's vitally essential that teachers engage kids as young as sixth grade in questions that really interrogate Columbus.

«That's why our kids in sixth grade start off reading three grades behind and then by eighth grade they are reading Animal Farm and Hamlet.»

One study by Olweus shows that 60 percent of kids characterized as bullies in sixth through ninth grades had at least one criminal conviction by age 24.

We had teachers say, «we have kids reading at the fifth and sixth grade level.»

By sixth grade, these kids are learning comfortably in both English and Spanish, a gift that will yield lifetime benefits.

«The kids love it,» Sondra Olivieri, a sixth - grade language arts teacher, told The News - Times.

The Korean - immersion school for kids in kindergarten through sixth grade will be located just a few miles from the nation's very first charter school, which opened in St. Paul in 1992.

While the program is geared for kids in sixth, seventh and eighth grades, it allows some families to send the students» younger brothers and sisters to attend as well.

Open to students in kindergarten through sixth grade with relatives or sponsors in the commercial truck and bus industries, the contest educates kids about highway safety and urges commercial drivers to buckle up on every trip.

And he finds somebody's basement - shot action wannabe with party - store costuming and bad sound obscuring the lame dialogue and whatever fight stunts their sixth - grade kid brother wanted to do before Mom got downstairs.

Since it's been published, it's been picked up to read to a sixth grade class, I've gotten many positive reviews from both adults and kids who love the story, and it's a story that can be marketed again as a summer story — with no worries that it will be off the shelf by then.

While researching this I found the Institute for Humane Education in Maine that offers long - distance graduate degrees; Humane Society of the U.S Youth has been publishing a humane education publication, called KIND News for over 25 years and it reaches 1 million kids from kindergarten to sixth grade; Safe Humane Chicago has volunteers that spend over 1500 hours a year in at - risk neighborhoods;

It began as a contest to reduce trash among sixth - grade classrooms in Boston's Mill Pond School, but now kids, parents, and teachers alike are rethinking the role of waste in their lives.