Fiscal year

While growing up, sports have always been a big part of my life. At the age of only six years old, my parents first signed me up for coach pitch softball. Little did they know that I was going to fall in love with the game and that they were going to have to spend countless hours at softball fields during the spring each year watching me play. Being so young when I first started playing, winning and losing did not matter at all. As long as I got to throw, hit, and catch the ball, I was happy.…

In the first year, Fishbanks released three ships and the bidding price was up to $1450 per ship even when the profit of fishing in the deep sea was only around $500 per ship while the operating cost of fishing in the deep sea was around $225 per year. When our group realized how profitable ship auction was, we decided to sell three ships at $1000 per ship; however, other teams might…

Word Identification As suggested by the Qualitative Reading Inventory-4 administrator’s manual instructions, the first grade word list was administered, to determine the instructional reading level to establish a starting point on the reading assessment. The QRI-4 guideline suggested Addison begin reading the word lists at the first grade level of the QRI-4, two levels below her current grade level. Addison completed the first grade word list automatically with 100% accuracy, in the allotted…

looked around; I couldn’t believe my eyes she was her! We screamed when we made eye contact Mrs. Boone said “ I believe she found a friend’. I went and sat with her. She introduced me to Nemo, Jake, Jack,and Leon just to name a few. We finished that year together like our friendship never missed a beat.The next big bridge was E.E. Smith Middle School. Sixth grade felt like a breeze minus the usual drama. I thought my whole middle school experience was going to be that way, little did I know I…

Don’t Get Too Comfortable How many people like change? I have found that people don 't like new experiences because they feel that they don 't have control of their life, there is excessive uncertainty, or concerns about their competence. In other words they feel like they will fail or be a failure. New situations may be stressful or overwhelming. They may make their whole body feel paralyzed, their hands clam up, put a lump in their throat, and make them feel like their heart is pounding so…

Everyone always has a story of how they got from one place to another. Maybe it’s how they started one place and ended up in another. Sometimes it can be different circumstances. My life started changing when I got my first referral in sixth grade for fighting. Everything was smooth until the summer of 2010 when I was going into seventh grade. I and my friend Jeremy were mud bogging on my lawnmower and the tie rod broke, so we decided to leave it and get the lawnmower later on that day. Once we…

It went by fast. I was friends with everyone in my class and we all got along. While that didn’t change in fifth grade, other things did. My parents had been divorced since I was one years old, but I was starting to get old enough to understand. My parents were both remarried. I lived with my Dad and stepmom and I visited my Mom and step dad on weekends. While I got along with my stepdad great, it was a different story with my stepmom…

standardized t-score for the reading test administered during the spring term of 2000 when participants were enrolled in the first grade. Income is a categorical measure that indicates the range of total dollar amount a child’s household received in the year preceding the spring of 2002. Additionally, I created a new indicator variable for uniform policy engagement using the uniform variable which coded responses to the survey question, “Are third graders at this school required to wear…

Methods Participants Participants will include first graders from ____ Elementary School. Students with Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) and students who are classified as level 1, 2, or 3 English Language Learners will be excluded from the study. Students who score below benchmark on mCLASS: Dynamic Indicators of Basic Literacy Skills Next (mCLASS: DIBELS Next) will be assessed by their teacher for elevated inattention rates. The students who have both below benchmark reading scores and…

little fine black numbers that read 375. My eyes began to water.I could not believe I just failed my first standard of learning test. After telling my mom the horrible news, we both felt that it was best for me to get a tutor. My entire sixth grade year I struggled with all of my classes,resulting to really low passing SOL scores and even failing one of them. Deep down I knew I needed a tutor but my pride made it difficult for me to accept my reality.In the past I…