Liturgical year

click. Especially if that person is your best friend. Sure, I have a lot of pals now, but Aaron Klein has been my best friend for almost eight years. This is our story. Third grade was the start of it all. Aaron and I had seen each other around before, but it never came to anything. We both had Mrs. Gregory for third grade. Sometime near the middle of the year Mrs. Gregory assigned a new seating chart. Slightly discouraged, since I was a shy kid, I slowly maneuvered my desk to my new place in…

used three times throughout the year, and the end of the year assessment called SAGE. The first benchmark assessment mentioned by our school principal is the ACT assessment. The data shows a trend of student scores dealing with math, English or language arts, and science that have flat lined from 2010 through 2016. This means that student scores have…

“Koen?” Mr. Blume, my sixth grade teacher read off the roll sheet. “Here!” Koen said as he raised his hand. It was the first day of my sixth grade year. I was sitting straight up in my desk while wearing my brand new school clothes. My mom had curled my hair for this special occasion, and I was even allowed to wear a bit of mascara on my eyes. “Mia?” Mr. Blume read. Another girl sitting across the room from me had perked up, and her and I simultaneously shouted, “Here!” “Mia Aicher?” Mr.…

Project Egg Launch is designed for K-12 students. The project includes many features to help students understand the principles of engineering design while increasing their awareness towards applying basic physics concepts. In addition, the students are given an kinesthetic way of learning by the hands-on experience of building an egg enclosure. Project Egg Launch is a project that students will enjoy and get the chance to actively problem solve and build. Team 6-1 has the plan to get students…

friends again but a little sad too because I loved learning and exploring new things when I was in US, it was fascinating to me. I finished my 7th grade which left mid-way in my family’s school as I missed half of the year and none of the school accepted students mid-way. That school year ended, I knew that I had to reapply to my old school and I was confident that I would get in but that did not come out as I expected. The day my mother told me this I cried for days, pleading my mother and…

the recent survey of the MOH on GRx, of 3000 respondents, 72 percent noticed changes positively in their health. Also, Maori group participated in this survey, showing an increase of those who joined GRx last year. Around 56 percent of last year joined the programme, and 67 percent for this year (O’Niell, 2015). This shows an excellent job of the MOH with this programme. Having GRx makes way on the benefits of prevention of Diabetes and reducing the incidence of Cardiovascular Diseases (MOH,…

winter night in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. On the fifth of January, I was introduced to the world, I was born on the coldest day of 1999, at a frigid -30 degrees. I’ve been blessed with the two greatest parents in the world that have been married for 19 years. My family was completed on May 24, 2001, when my little brother Mason was born. Mason and I were not given our names for any specific reason our parents just liked the names. James was my middle name that my parents had given me which came from…

Introduction In recent years, response to intervention (RTI) has been the focus of research, debate and educational implementation. Two scholarly journal articles were analyzed and synthesized to deepen this writer’s understanding of Response to Intervention. It is not known if or to what extent Reading Recovery (RR) and Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy (DIBELS) impact the reading levels of students who were reading below grade level. Both articles revealed the authors’ purpose,…

I plan to become certified to teach grades EC – 6th. My strong desire is to teach 5th grade. After reviewing the website to locate the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) writing standards for the 5th grade level, I found that only 4th and 7th grade had writing standards. I am not sure what this means, but I am going to assume that it means that only students at these grade levels take the writing portion of the examine. With a testing pattern such as this, I plan to ensure that my…

of how to network. On a personal front, I could say that the lab helped me to challenge my own beliefs about myself and helped to increase my self-confidence several notches. It all began around 1 o’clock in the afternoon on 16th February. From this year the…