Sentences with phrase «taken to my school library»

Then moving to New Jersey, I remember the first time I was taken to my school library.

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I feel more equipped to take trips to the library, sit down with Ava and work on different subjects, go on «field trips,» sign up for different classes, attend home schooling functions, etc..

I occasionally travel and visit family, and while there I help with cooking, trash, change diapers, get dishes done, take the kids to school, park, library, and activities.

Today my library books are overdue, I let my four year old take a sudsy hot bath with water all the way to his chin and my boys ate nachos and Gatorade from the school lunch line.

Her background in school curriculums and willingness to take on a job that is not only undefined, but a work - in - progress has made our printables library one of the most exciting parts of Kids Activities.

Give Back, Give Books gives books to city school students to take home or for city school libraries.

In 2006, REF offered Give Back, Give Books, a community - wide books drive through which more than 10,000 new books were given to city school libraries and city school students to take home.

Eminent domain — ask the average person what it means, and he is likely to think of the government taking property for a high public purpose — a school, park, highway or library.

Are you an elementary school teacher who took that ABC book to a new level or a social studies teacher who has made oral histories of local old - timers part of the community collection of text in the school and local libraries?

Families were encouraged to do learning activities at home with their children, and were also given opportunities to visit a local library and take a tour of their child's school.

By posting things related to your hashtag on social media, colleagues, school leaders, parents, and students become a part of your library's story by helping it to take shape and unfold.

More and more, brick and mortar libraries are taking their offerings online, expanding their reach beyond their own schools, neighborhoods, or cities to the global community.

Once family background and the nature of the peer group at school were taken into account, student achievement was unaffected by per - pupil expenditure, school size, the science lab facilities, the number of books in the library, the use of tracking by ability levels to assign students to classrooms, or other factors previously assumed to be indicators of what makes for a good school.

This could include study habits, grammar review, note taking, or how to use the school's library, for example, Combine this with immediacy and identifying at risks students earlier in the process should prove quite effective.

Communities take great pride in championship football teams and show - piece libraries, media centers, and performing - arts centers, and they are loathe to give them up, particularly when the hard evidence about the benefits of small schools is still years away.

The children's laureate Chris Riddell, supported by a number of top authors, has called on the government to take action to preserve schools libraries.

The BESA website already has a functionally rich library of members so that schools can search by keyword, but the app takes it to a different and more convenient level, and is optimised for mobile devices.

Children who have parents who play games with them designed to teach letters and number concepts, sing songs and regularly read to them, take them to the library and provide them with art and craft equipment do well in school.

Second, the telecom industry argued, self - provisioning could create perverse incentives for companies not to serve rural areas, by taking two of those communities» best potential customers (schools and libraries) off the private market.

Give Back, Give Books is Rochester Education Foundation's program to give books to city school students to take home or for city school libraries.

Give Back, Give Books gives books to city school students to take home or for city school libraries.

Many thanks to my host, Halifax Regional School Board library consultant Donna Gillespie, and to Halifax Public Library children's services librarian Heather Doepner for taking us on a marvellous tour of the central library.

Surely it makes sense to take full advantage of the educational opportunities offered by the school library learning commons, given this level of investment.

The confusion will continue until the Ontario Ministry of Education takes the initiative to formulate the kind of policy that the Royal Society's expert panel calls for, and truly leverage the school library learning commons for the benefit of Ontario's K - 12 students.

Through this book drive, every child at 10 high - need elementary schools and 20 childcare centers is able to take home 10 books for his or her home library.

To address these inequities, the LEAD Commission and the Alliance have called upon the Federal Communications Commission to take further action in modernizing and expanding the E-rate program to ensure that at least 99 percent of the nation's students have access to high - speed internet in their schools and libraries within the next five yearTo address these inequities, the LEAD Commission and the Alliance have called upon the Federal Communications Commission to take further action in modernizing and expanding the E-rate program to ensure that at least 99 percent of the nation's students have access to high - speed internet in their schools and libraries within the next five yearto take further action in modernizing and expanding the E-rate program to ensure that at least 99 percent of the nation's students have access to high - speed internet in their schools and libraries within the next five yearto ensure that at least 99 percent of the nation's students have access to high - speed internet in their schools and libraries within the next five yearto high - speed internet in their schools and libraries within the next five years.

Zombies had taken over the school library, and she and her fellow students had to work together to answer various questions about books — such as identifying where the index is located.

She said her sixth - grader, Spencer, a student at Tomlinson Middle School was told that he had to sit with his classmates while they took the test, while her fourth grade daughter, who attends an elementary school in the district, has been allowed to sit out the test in the liSchool was told that he had to sit with his classmates while they took the test, while her fourth grade daughter, who attends an elementary school in the district, has been allowed to sit out the test in the lischool in the district, has been allowed to sit out the test in the library.

There will be a flyer coming home in Kid Mail with instructions on how to contribute to the School Wide Teacher Gift Card Fund, please take a moment to read the flyer and if you can, send back a contribution for the fund to help our teachers build their classroom libraries.

We strongly support taking the steps needed to ensure that New Jersey students have the opportunity to reach their potential through effective school libraries.

Currently, between 200 and 350 students visit the new library on a daily basis to read, do school work, or to take out or return a book.

That's because learning happens everywhere, and we need to find ways to connect the learning that does occur in school with the learning that takes place in other arenas, such as afterschool, summer, in clubs and activities, at work (paid and unpaid), postsecondary settings, online and through technology, and in other educational environments (museums, libraries, and alternative education, for example).

Thanks to our individual donors and thanks to our corporate sponsor, Follett, we were able to rally hundreds of residents to take action to support the high school libraries.

95 % of libraries offer summer reading programs to forestall the «summer slide» in reading achievement experienced when learning takes a holiday between school terms;

As digital library lending continues to take root in public and school libraries, digital content solutions provider OverDrive has seen tremendous forward growth in the number of patron checkouts through libraries.

We are currently taking requests to visit school libraries who want to promote their OverDrive collection, for FREE.

I never take any money for the visits, and I always give a free copy to the school for their library.

Of course, with so much recent attention focused on the accidental exposure of children to inappropriate subject matter in different ebook stores due to metadata miscalculation, OverDrive has taken measures to ensure that only age - appropriate content can be requested by patrons at public school libraries.

You can loan it out, take it to a used bookstore, give it your grandchildren, throw it in the trash, donate it to the school library, use it for kindling.

An interesting conundrum is taking place where libraries are concerned and it now appears to be affecting school libraries in an important way.

OverDrive is taking responsibility for tomorrow; together with 38,000 library and school partners worldwide, we strive to delight more readers every day and support education and reading.

(My parents took me to the public library all the time — especially during the summer — and my elementary school teachers and librarians encouraged me to participate in our Accelerated Reader program.)

Even if you can't donate books to a local school or library, if there's a kid your life, take time to share your love of words with them by reading a book.

If you agree with these library leaders - people who know from their day - to - day work with students of all ages and abilities - that CPS school librarians should be restored to all 4 out of 4 libraries in Chicago Public Schools, take the next step and tell the Chicago Board of Education what you think.

Amazon's description: «This book explains the concept of adding value and shows staff at libraries and other organizations why they need to take steps now to ensure they are adding new value to their communities — whether it be a local town or neighborhood, a faculty and student body, or a school.»

The school library also held a book giveaway — if a student brought a parent or caregiver to the library and they read a book together, each child in the family could take home a free book!

Please sign and share a petition to take action to support our children's access to school libraries across the country.

See how Hartland South Elementary School updated their STEM lab with mobile tables and collaborative furnishings and took their library space from old and outdated to modern and exciting.

Almost two years ago hundreds of people took action and signed a petition on this platform to stop the cuts to the school libraries in South Orange, New Jersey.

Next school year there will be only one and that one has been assigned to teach 2 hours of social studies and take care of the libraries.