Sentences with phrase «with grade school kids»

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Kids start a new grade of school, Jews like me celebrate the New Year with Rosh Hashanah, and businesses kick in new plans for making the most of the remaining year.

Maybe when you were naming your kids, there was a name you thought was good, but when you mentioned it to your spouse, they were reminded of a kid they had trouble with back in grade school, and so could never name their child that.

When I was a kid I went to the kind of elementary school where there was no homework, no tests, no report cards, no grades (are you still with me?)

I was the kid with tuna fish and carrot sticks for lunch instead of peanut butter and Doritos in grade school and strawberries and pasta salad instead of a Coke and a candy bar in junior high.

Sometimes kids from worse backgrounds, with worse high school grades, did better than kids from decent homes, with decent grades.

After spending time at home with her now - first grade daughter, she's bringing in another kind of dough at Oui Chef, her new Lincoln Park cooking school that's not only adding kids into the mix, but changing the way they see — and taste!

We argue with the teacher about our kids» less than perfect grades in middle and high school, as if the teacher has made a mistake instead of our perfect kid.

For some reason, grade schools tend to make kids feel like they can't be friends with other kids who are older or younger than them.

I am a 1st grade teacher in a southern state, Title I school (95 % free and reduced lunch) and here is the reality of the new food guidelines in my school: I know this is true because I eat breakfast and lunch with my kids every day and I eat the same foods they eat.

A study of 20,000 children found that when fathers are involved with their kids» schools the children were more likely to receive A's, participate in extracurricular activities and less likely to fail a grade.

While the discipline angle is understandable, the only «goals» I want my grade - schooler working toward are mastering the basics and learning how to really socialize with other kids.

As with any new or potentially unsettling situation — like starting school for the first time or entering a new grade or new school — allow kids time to adjust.

The included activity cards can be safely written on and easily erased with dry erase markers, and the kit is versatile enough to provide intellectual challenges for young toddlers all the way up to grade school kids.

When it comes to anxiety in children, younger grade - schoolers may not be able to fully explain their feelings, whereas older kids may be able to say exactly what's bothering them and why (though that's no guarantee that they'll share that information with Mom or Dad).

For kids who are going to be first - timers for kindergarten, first grade, middle school or even high school, this can help them feel more comfortable with the new place and get a better idea of where to go once they're there.

We don't need the best or fancy for our kids, but our school is rated, based on the standardized tests taken in grade 3 and 6, as a 2/10 (or, put another way, out of 3037 schools in our province, our local school is currently sitting at 2986/3037 with a continuing downward trend.

Some momstown mamas have kids going to their very first preschool, and some are veterans with kids in the big «grades»... but everyone has some anxiety and excitement about going back to school!

I noticed how competitive parents were in the 80s with their kids baseball teams etc... and schools, grades, etc... And at least GEN Y was told they HAD to go to college.

(A parental dispensation only possible for kids who haven't entered the high - school pressure cooker where — as with Sara Notte — summer homework is graded and can directly affect a student's chances to enter a top - tier university.)

The other problem, Pope says, is that summer homework packets (frequently put off until the last unhappy week before school begins), often seem to fall into an academic black hole once they're turned in — with no feedback from teachers and no effect on kids» grades.

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They tutor kids having trouble, they help with after school activities, they attend meetings with faculty and parents, and they stay up late into the night grading papers.

In conjunction with Glenbard East High School, Rams Camps offers a variety of instructional athletic summer camps for kids heading into grades 3 - 12.

On the Support Line, I've found that when parents really make a consistent effort to keep up with their kids, they are seldom caught unawares when it comes to dropping grades or poor school performance.

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This is week 10 of our US Geography and Elections Study to go along with our Home School curriculum for our Kindergarten and 3rd grade - ish kids!

Many of the suicide attempts or suicides that we are seeing at high achieving schools involve kids with good grades.

Surprise the kids with a special breakfast before school - pancakes in the shape of their new grade level.

Help your child ease into a new school with these words of wisdom.Right before Emma was entering third grade, she was forced into a role many parents worry about: the «new kid.»

Kindergartners and children in the early grades who get along fine with other kids may continue to adjust to the social environment at school.

Whether it's first grade or off to middle school, the start of the new school year comes with some stress on kids and parents alike.

In a firehouse nearby the school, where parents were finally reunited with their children after the tragedy, all were aghast to discover so many of the first - grade parents overcome with the realization their kids were among the dead.

When C2 becomes a teacher's helper, Carl finds himself with access to the Principal's computer and accidentally changes the grades of every kid in school — to all «A's!

Designed with grade school students in mind, this kid - friendly cartoon eliminates the dangerous aspects of the accurate account in favor of spinning a magical escapist fantasy unconcerned with factual accuracy.

For those not familiar with Disney's Saturday Morning cartoon lineup on ABC, «Recess» is a show about a group of kids in the fourth grade class at Third Street School.

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.»

At Valor Collegiate Academies — two charter schools on one campus in Nashville that serve grades 5 through 8 — the core philosophy is that «really strong SEL work is very advantageous to kids also doing well academically in school,» says Todd Dickson, who founded the schools with his twin brother, Daren.

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.

Walcott promised to borrow instructional methods from successful middle school charters with this initiative, but even charter organizations like KIPP, which began by serving middle school kids, are having second thoughts about the challenges such isolation from other children create, and has been building «clusters» of schools that include early grades and high schoolers.

And I'll tell you, in the 2nd grade, I tried to fit in with so many people that I was probably the biggest bully in the whole school... But once I got to 3rd, I started to realize what a jerk I was being to kids and what it could do.

Weighted student funding (WSF) As with most major reforms of school finance, doing WSF right entails complex formulas, oft - changing allocations of money (when a kid shifts schools, for example, or moves to the next grade, or her needs change), sophisticated building - level budgeting, and the integration of dollars from multiple sources that carry different requirements.

Making STEM a Part of Everyday Life U.S. News & World Report, 5/6/14» «How do we, starting in the middle grades, give kids more exposure to the world on a systematic basis, so that by the time they arrive in high school, they are in a position to know how their interests and strengths align with careers so they can make intelligent choices about their career pathways?»

I love to visit schools and talk with kids in grades PreK - 3.

And he answers, «certainly not because I have any direct self - interest — no... I'm not profiting from my involvement in charter schools (in fact, I shudder to think of how much it's cost me), and I have little personal experience with the public school system because I'm doubly lucky: my parents saw that I wasn't being challenged in public schools, sacrificed (they're teachers / education administrators), and my last year in public school was 6th grade; and now, with my own children, I'm one of the lucky few who can afford to buy my children's way out of the NYC public system [in] which, despite Mayor Bloomberg's and Chancellor Klein's herculean efforts, there are probably fewer than two dozen schools (out of nearly 1,500) to which I'd send my kids.»

Below is a collection of catchy sayings that work as cues to be quiet, the first ones appropriate for early and middle grade students, and the later ones field tested to work with high school kids.

I remember the first day in 2008 that Justin, a nervous 8th grade kid, came to check out the Met Sacramento High School with his parents to decide if it would be a good match.

The More Kids Read, the Better They Read: Motivating Kids to Read School - Wide With the NEAs Read Across America event just around the corner (March 2) and Get Caught Reading Month coming up in May, this is an ideal time to share some super new resources you can use to encourage reading across the grades.

On a practical level, schools can also stagger the open house, with one grade per night, allowing parents with multiple kids not to feel rushed as they race from class to class.

Along with suburban public schools, they have to face off against parents who are hyper - focused on college admissions, and hell - bent on making sure their kids get good grades.

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