Language Learning Advances: Seymour’s Second Graders Learn Chinese
“A Chinese linguist may know as many as 8,000 characters, but many of them are obsolete or uncommon,” she said. “About 600 characters look like the pictures for the word they represent.” To help teach...
View Article9th Graders to take ACT Practice Exam, January 9, 2013, 8:00am | The Public...
Dear Parent/Guardian of 9th grade PAPA students: On January 9, 2013 all 9 grade PAPA students will take the PLAN (A.K.A. the ACT practice exam). Students will report to the Café at 8:00 am on the day...
View ArticleSeventh Grader’s Art Party Aids Children’s Hospital
There comes a time in a child’s life when they must become aware of not only their own wants and needs, but the wants and needs of others. In the Jewish religion, that time is when the child becomes an...
View ArticleAdvice from a Kid: Poems for Third Graders | Writers in the Schools
Sometimes we are flummoxed by the task at hand. What is the best way to teach very young children how to write poetry? Most of my students this quarter were 8 years old. How to keep their attention?...
View ArticleSculptor Kevin Pettelle and 5th graders explore Beauty of Bronze | Wenatchee
More than 600 fifth-graders, about three classrooms a day, have been working with sculpture Kevin Pettelle as part of the Beauty of Bronze program to learn about the art of bronze sculptures. The...
View ArticleStrategies for Third Graders, Theories for Graduate Students : Education Next
The over-reliance on reading comprehension strategies in primary and secondary education has been a consistent theme at Core Knowledge for several years, but nevertheless people may not realize that...
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Global Strategies: 23 PPS 8th graders off to Suzhou, China
Twenty-three 8th grade students from the dual language Mandarin immersion program at Hosford Middle School are off Wednesday, April 2, for two weeks in China. It is their Chinese Research Residency...
View ArticleThe CGPA Times : 8th Graders Accepted to Top Private, Magnet, and Charter...
CGPA has reason to be proud as more than half of the current 8 grade class has been accepted to some of the most competitive and prestigious high school programs that Miami-Dade County has to offer....
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