Sentences with phrase «third grade classmates»

Film making has been a passion for Evan since elementary school days, where a viewing of The Lord of the Rings movies spurred him to craft his own 2 - part epic, featuring 30 of his third grade classmates.

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He joked with a youngster about losing his first political campaign in third grade after his opponent gave out lollipops to classmates.

The results were clear: Students who strategically reflected on how to use their resources to learn effectively ended up with higher grades at the end of the semester, outperforming their classmates by an average of one third of a letter grade.

So we wanted to see if playfulness in Kindergarten had any predictive ability to talk about how the children would be in First, Second and Third Grades, both in terms of teacher's perspectives and in terms of their classmates» perspectives.

Third - and fourth - grade teacher Jessie Heckman says she empowers her students to become more resourceful by solving common problems with the support of their classmates.

«Making sure all children are proficient readers by third grade will go a long way toward closing the achievement gaps that exist between low - income students and their wealthier classmates.»

«It was a difficult decision, but I feel compelled to do something,» said Andrea Mata, whose son Oscar, 8, won't be filling out bubble sheets with his third - grade classmates at Public School 210 in Manhattan.

And when at least 1.2 million fourth - grade students, or one - third of the nation's students in that grade are likely to drop out — and nearly 1 million more of their classmates who are barely reading at Basic proficiency unlikely to succeed in college and career — we have a moral, intellectual, and systems - change obligation to focus on stemming achievement gaps.

In third grade during career day, young Dr. Ostermeyer announced to her teacher and classmates that she was going to become a veterinarian.

For example, in third grade classrooms with more collaborative learning activities, children had more positive interactions with their classmates.

In 50 years of evaluation, PCHP has documented important longitudinal impacts for program participants: graduates enter school as well or better prepared than their classmates, perform significantly better than their socioeconomic peers and as well as or better than the overall population on school readiness measures in kindergarten and first grade, and are reading and doing math on grade level in third grade.

My daughter is on a higher reading level than her classmates but the teachers allow her to be pulled out and join a third grade reading class.