Elementary arithmetic

then, I just thought it would be as laid back as VAA. My first year I loved it and I had lots of fun and made lots of new friends. I would practice with my dad often so that I could get better. Then I continued with softball all the way through elementary school and middle school. Two summers ago the Stillwater softball team was starting to fall apart and more girls were deciding to leave and go to a different team or play a different sport. So all that was…

Verona Park has always been an interesting wilderness park to explore in the Essex County area. Although there are other parks such as Brookdale Park, Branch Brook Park, South Mountain Reservation, and Eagle Rock Reservation, I do not find them as interesting as Verona Park. During the winter, there are no activities for the families to do, besides walk around the park. But during the warmer weather months, they offer various types of activities, such as paddle boating, tennis courts, a…

The Move I grew up in, Santa Clarita, California where I have lived for twelve long years of my life. I have established supportive friends and I was close to all my family member’s that have lived up there. I had learned to love the shriveled, boring town I grew up in. One day my parents had brought up an avoided topic at the dinner table. My dad has been bringing it up lately that he was going to staying in washington for a few months because the amount of work up there, my dad is a private…

book and started learning to read them before I entered elementary school. I had almost every book and cherished my collection and continued to add to it for years after. I credit my ability to read so young to reading all of those books we had because I had an older sister who was able to read and I followed in her footsteps. I read before Kindergarten started, because I began reading at a high level as a five-year-old. Reading in elementary school was more of a hobby for me because I was able…

“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.” On my bedroom wall, I have a collection of vibrantly colored sticky-notes with handwritten quotes. The quote above is scribbled next to my mirror, directly taken from my favorite novel, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Every morning, I use it as a reminder on how I want to pursue the magis in my life using words. My love-hate relationship with words began in middle school when I enrolled in a selective, all-girls…

Quality Assessment of Elementary School Lunches of South Korea and the United States, the authors, Jeon Min-Sun, Young Hoon Kim, and Hak-Seon Kim are professors at universities from Texas and South Korea. They have PhDs and spend much of their time teaching students that are interested in the field of food services. In this article, the authors are mostly successful in persuading those who are within the foodservice chains, that nutritional school lunches are needed in elementary schools to help…

therefore, surprisingly making myself feel much better. I sit and read a book called ‘Choices and Revolution’, it seems appropriate for the current situation. On the 23rd page a note falls out. I pick it up, it says ‘When on Earth, go to the Bellmon Elementary School at 7:30 AM. Do this or you will be swimming in your blood. Tell Bond and we’ll terminate…

Growing up an only child and having mexican parents, I was always taken care of. Since I was the only child, my parents were overprotective of me so that I grew up to be a good person. I always thought of this as annoying. I was extremely scared to do bad things, especially in kindergarten. In school I’ve taken various tests ranging from, your learning type, or how smart you are. None of those I felt truly represented who I am. That was until I took the Hexaco test. Sure there were a few things…

“9” “10” “11” “12” I slammed the tip of my flag at the ground with my arm in the final position, and head tilt upwards. There was a audible sound of the whole color guard heavily breathing, as we all end simultaneously together. A perfect run. However, there was no echo of the band playing their last note, there was no roaring applause and cheers from the audience. In fact, there was no band, there was no audience, just twenty girls on the field along with two coaches sitting at the top of the…

Introduction Middle School Literacy Coaching from the Coach's Perspective explores the topic of professional development for teachers in literacy techniques. It implies the need for more teacher training in literacy education in middle school where teachers are often focused on content and not on how students learn what they read, a problem any teacher of middle or high school would agree exists. The goal of the study is to contribute to the data that explains and scrutinizes literacy coaching,…