...Did you know that most 6th graders, and all higher grades don't get recess? But is it really for the best? Everyone benefits from a break, but is it really better for kids (sixth graders) To learn all day and not have a time to refresh their brains? In my opinion sixth graders should have a recess everyday, but is it really for the best? The question will be answered in this argumentative. Many educators consider recess simply a time for students to relax, run around or socialize, others view it as a potentially dangerous free-for-all.Recess is actually an opportunity to develop critical life skills such as teamwork and conflict resolution. It’s also the time of day when a great deal of social and emotional learning takes place. Recess gives students opportunities for social and emotional interactions they can’t get in the classroom, where the teacher is generally at the lead and the students are usually quietly participating or in groups,” explains Principal William Clark of...
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...for a very unique and interesting year. First graders are an exciting group of students. They go through changes often. It’s during this time that they hit a growth spurt and feel a little awkward physically. They develop the need to have a “best” friend and even hang out away from school. First graders are always keeping you on your feet with off the wall questions and concerns. Students at this age need to be shown a lot of patience, acceptance, and reassurance. At this age, the responsibilities of school alone become stressful to them. First graders depend on a structured environment to create a comfort zone for them. They love the idea of having a routine. Most of them wake up in the mornings just in time to brush their teeth, comb their hair, and eat their bowl of cereal before going to school. But, some of them like to have a more laid back morning. They like to get up early, watch a TV show to wake up, and then get ready for the day. Either way, the routine transfers right into school work. Having a daily routine makes the students feel stable and lets them build up a comfort zone. First graders are very active and growing very quickly, along with their physical activity. At this age, the children are aware of the fact that our fingers are like tools. They are typically sloppy writers because they are trying to race the other students in the room. They want to get done with work or an activity first. First graders tend to get tired easily and always have an...
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...Motor Graders in Construction The motor grader is a large multipurpose machine used for many different construction operations. These many operations include but are not limited to: grading, shaping, bank sloping, ditching, and scarifying. Graders can also be employed to clear roads of snow and debris without doing any damage to the underlying roadway surface. Graders are much more “gentle” than dozers and other large pushing machinery. Motor graders are designed for preparing the substrate of roads and other flat earth as well as leveling aggregate. By using the blade skillfully, it is also possible for the contractor to use motor graders to finish a slope and dig a ditch. In civil engineering, the grader's purpose is to "finish grade" the "rough grading" performed by heavy equipment or engineering vehicles such as scrapers and bulldozers. Motor graders are commonly used in the construction of dirt roads, paved roads and gravel roads. The motor grader can also be used by the contractor in the maintenance of these road types and ditches as well. In the construction of paved roads they are used to prepare the base course to create a wide flat surface for the asphalt to be placed on. Graders are also used to set native soil foundation pads to finish grade prior to the construction of large buildings. The amount of material that can be pushed by a motor grader is much less than what a dozer can push. This is because motor graders are built for fine tuning surfaces rather than just...
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...Caterpillar is a leading global manufacturer of construction and mining equipment, machinery and engines with more than five hundred dealer and facility locations worldwide. Low revenue growth prompted Caterpillar to compete on a global scale In order to keep increasing revenue the company had to look for new customers and since ninety-five percent of the world’s potential customers live outside the United States, competing on a global scale was essential. Caterpillar created regional councils in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia Pacific. The business driver for Caterpillar is a Lean Six Sigma. The company developed a strategic vision and a road map for change guided by fact-based analysis. The initiative led to product innovations, like Caterpillar's phenomenally successful low-emissions diesel engine, and to redesigned processes, including a streamlined supply chain. By 2005, the company's revenues had grown by 80 percent. Caterpillar’s global competitors are in: * Construction Machinery: Komatsu Ltd, Deere & Co., Doosan Infracore Co., Ltd, Volvo Construction Equipment, Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd, Hyundai, CNH Global N.V. and J.C. Bamford Ltd * Resource Industries: Komatsu Ltd, Volvo Construction Equipment, Deere & Co., Joy Global Inc., Atlas Copco, Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd and Wirtgen * Power Systems: Cummins Inc., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd., MAN Diesel & Turbo SE, Tognum AG, Deutz AG, Siemens Energy, GE...
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...through their zone of proximal development. It is a teacher’s job to promote thinking abilities in their students. By asking higher order questions a teacher will help in their cognitive development. A child’s development of personality and self-esteem is important to not only their schooling, but in their whole life. A teacher can help their students establish this personality and give them multiple ways to develop their sense of self. My purpose in this child study is to be able to analyze an individual child’s physical, emotional, and cognitive development and determine how the changes she is going through will affect her learning and behavior. Making my decision on which child to study was not an easy one. I sat with Kimberly Mach, a sixth grade language arts teacher at Memorial Middle School who has become a mentor for me in my internship. We discussed the child study project and the specifics it would entail. We discussed several students that could be used in this study; all of the choices were middle-level, average students, that...
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...When I was in the third grade I started getting bullied. I was a chubby, short haired, four-eyed geek. I tried bullying back but they always had something better to say and I would go home crying. I think the last 3 years of elementary school I came home crying every single day. I hated school. You would think I would get a break in the summer too....Not the case. Most of the kids I went to school with and had class with lived in my neighborhood and we all played together. However, I was the one everyone messed with. I still went outside to play cause my mom and grandma wanted us to. My brother and cousin would even join in on the teasing from time to time. Finally, my mom told me just to laugh it off and they would leave me alone. It wasn't entirely true but in the summer before grade 5 I got a boyfriend who was 3 years older than me and I thought I was cool. So when everyone was teasing me I just laughed it off and went to hang out with my boyfriend and the older kids. In middle school I was in grade six and he in grade 8 so I was looked at as a lucky girl. The girls wanted to be my friends and the boys wanted to date me. It was so strange cause before no one even wanted to look at me. I was still a chubby, four-eyed geek only with longer hair. I didn't understand but I do now. I had what they wanted. A boyfriend. In grade 7 when my boyfriend and I broke up I was miserable. I started wearing all black and cut off my "friends". They weren't even my real friends they just wanted...
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...accompany his style, Shyamalan applies a number of principles to each film. For example, he keeps his pacing deliberately slow. His famous films The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, and The Village all contain slow, but emotional dialogue exchanges. The movies are more about dramatic scenes, not action scenes. This allows Shyamalan to explore character dynamics over plot dynamics, but at the same time, he is still able to keep the audience involved. When it comes to the supernatural ghosts and monsters, people are used to seeing action-packed scenes, all up-in-your-face experiences. Shyamalan goes a different way. He slowly builds up audiences’ anticipation, and then he reveals the truth. Like the way Cole reveals his secret in the hospital bed in The Sixth Sense; the way David accepts his powers in Unbreakable; the way the secret of Covington woods and its monster reveals. Audiences did not get the sensation of being scared out of their seat by the sudden spooks, nevertheless, they got the fulfillment of anticipation, of rambling through their head to search for the possible answer; the possible outcome, of the finally knowing the unknown. What can be better than the intellectual involvement? Another principle in Shyamalan’s films is the twist of the identity of the protagonist or he changes the story focus to another character. With The Sixth Sense, we watch a ghost story for nearly the...
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...What Being In Honors Means To Me Being in all honors means that you are a responsible and an organized person. Although it seemed I was not "honors material" last year, I can prove this year, my 8th grade year, that I am more than capable of being responsible. I have been in honors since 3rd grade, and it hurts to think that my years of honors are disappearing before me. I have never not been in all honors. I slacked quite a bit in 7th grade. I made a decision to be more responsible and organized towards the end of the year, but by then it was too late. What can I say? I slacked off last year and this is my punishment. I understand that due to my last year's work ethic it doesn't seem that I am honors material. I promise you I can be. Please let me be in all honors this year. It means a lot to me! If you don't want to take my word for it, feel free to ask any of my 6th grade and any elementary teacher that I had. Ask them how I did in school. My first "B" on my report card was in 5th grade. I was so disappointed I told my teacher (Mrs. M. Martin) that I shouldn't be in all honors. She said I belonged in all honors. I wish I could thank her for that. I would not have been able to handle not being in all honors. Luckily, the school decided to put me in all honors again in 7th grade. That's when I slacked off. I still managed to keep at least a "B" in all of my classes, but I did not do all of my homework. If it was counted as a late assignment, I either lost it in my mess of a...
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...Playing Hide and Seek with My Future Dreaming can take you to wonderful places. At least that was what my father told me. Eight years ago, while I sat in my room, chin on my folded up knees, I asked myself what exactly I wanted to be when I grew up. As usual, my brain came up with billions of seemingly brilliant ideas; I could be a journalist, or better yet a news host, I could be an actor, or maybe even a politician, I could be a business woman, or I could just be the doctor my parents wanted me to be. Everything came to a screeching halt. A doctor; it is what almost every parent wants for their child. They would have knowledge that their child could save people’s lives, would be making money that could help those without healthcare, and even have the status of an intelligent individual who has done well for themselves; the doctor that would be the pride of the family. Nine year-old me breathed out a sigh. All the things I wanted to become, all the things I wanted to do, none of them seemed conceivable, or rather, none of them seemed conceivable to my dad. A doctor was what he wanted me to be; and a doctor was what I didn’t want to be. Having high hopes for his children wasn’t wrong of my dad. I understood that he had dreams once too. He never talked about his life before coming to America and even after putting together all the pieces, all the hints, I only came up with the bare minimum, if even that. Dad lost both his parents while growing up in the country sides...
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...Al ARABIA FOR EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT AL ITTIHAD PRIVATE SCHOOL- Mamzar العربيـــــــــــــــة لتطويــــــــــــر التعليـــــــــــــم - مذرســـــة االتحــــــاد الخاصــــــة الممزر Boys Section Weekly Homework S R DAYS حربيت اصالييت 12 May - 16 May GRADE 5 نغت عربيت اجخًاعياث English Math Sceince ICT Art Sunday حم اَشطت انطانب درس انٓجرة انُبٕيت انى انًذيُت انًُٕرة ٍحم ٔرلت حًاري To study for quiz on Wednesday : Sequence of events. Exercise on p157 of practice book. 1 Monday حم يٍ يهزيت احكاو 10انخالٔة صفحت To study for quiz on Quiz Material: 8-1/ 8Wednesday : Adverbs 3/ 13-2/ 13-3 exercise on p199 and 200 2 Tuesday ٌ" انًادة انًطهٕبت في االيخحا صذيمُا حضيٍ - انُحٕ كم ياحى ّ" دراصخ To study for quiz on Wednesday : vocabulary words on Tucker's Travels. In copybook and in the reader 3 Wednesday ٔرلت حذريباث Study for Quiz: 1. How Does Matter Change?(booklet) 2. What is Sound?(booklet) related sheets 4 Thursday w.b. pg. 94 ex 1 to 16 +18 + 5 Comments Al ARABIA FOR EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT AL ITTIHAD PRIVATE SCHOOL- Mamzar العربيـــــــــــــــة لتطويــــــــــــر التعليـــــــــــــم الممزر - مذرســـــة االتحــــــاد الخاصــــــة Boys Section Weekly Homework S R DAYS حربيت اصالييت 12 May - 16 May GRADE 6 نغت عربيت اجخًاعياث English Math Sceince ICT Art Sunday حم اَشطت انطانب درس ٍانًٕاخاِ بيٍ انًٓاجري ٔاالَصار 1 Quiz Syllabus: 1. Fact&Opinion...
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...Film Critique / The Sixth Sense For my final project, I decided to critique and analyze various features of the movie, The Sixth Sense. I will use a structural approach to examine the film’s edifice and explain how the productions of scenes and shots tell the overall story (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2011). I will demonstrate how the genre and the rating of the movie do not appropriately fit its criteria, and how the motion picture evaluation system failed by revealing horrific scenes to teens by assigning the PG-13 rating. In addition to that, I will illuminate inconsistent and unexplained actions with continuity glitches throughout the movie. Regardless of its mistakes, the film became a great success, because the plot of the movie allowed the audience to explore a different side of life after death and the grief that comes with it. Ultimately, the movie The Sixth Sense can be perceived as a therapy, because it gives us tools on how to deal with fear and helps us learn about the ways on how to come with terms of loss. It also explains the importance of communication between a doctor and the patient, a husband and a wife, a mother and a son, and of course, between our society and ourselves. Two unalike families contribute to the story’s plot. Two separate lives of Cole (played by Haley Joel Osment) and his mother Lynn (played by Toni Collette), and a psychologist Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) with his wife Anna (played by Olivia Williams). The story begins with an ordinary psychologist...
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...Hi, my name is Bianca Flores. I am a goka. I go to gardeprobe academy. Gardeprobe has two different types of people. Goka are the females, goku are the males. I’m a five star goka. Let me tell you more about me. I’m fifteen years old. I have light blue hair and white eyes. I’m a sophomore. Us gokas are forced to use skirts. I’m not much of a skirts fan. It’s January the first. Our school is hosting a new years day festival. I run out of my apartment. It’s already 6:45. I’m a performer in the festival and the president of the whole sophomore student body. I’m supposed to be at school by 7. I am running right now. I hear my cell phone ringing. I call you up when I know he’s at home, I jump out of my skin when he picks up the phone, how can I tell if he’s looking at me, should I give him a smile, should I get up and leave. This song is the beginning of ‘best friends brother’ by Victoria Justice. I take out my phone from my pocket. I love sharks and dolphins so I have a great white shark picture on my iphone. “Hello?” I say. “Hey! It’s me, Alice.” “Hey Alice! I know I’m late. I’m running to the school now!” “Well hurry! All the school’s officers are here besides you and Beck!” I see the school and run to the front doors. “I’m at the school. Open the door for me please!?” “K, S.U.I” “K.” I hang up. If you’re wondering what S.U.I. means, it means See You Inside. Alice then opens the door. Alice is the sophomore vice president. She has white hair and ruby red eyes. I would...
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...Kelly will turn 5 this summer and will be a bit on the young side in the fall when he starts kindergarten. The school where Kelly will attend kindergarten has started a kindergarten prep session over the summer that lasts for a couple of weeks and involves group as well as individual work on letters, numbers, etc. You enroll Kelly at the age of 4 years, 10 months. He is assessed by one of the kindergarten teachers, who observes him during free play and tests Kelly one-on-one. Then the teacher sits down with you and your partner and gives the following report: The teacher thought Kelly was doing well with the peer group. He made several little friends in the kindergarten prep session. He could read a few short words and write his name and could name most of the letters on sight at the time of testing. He also showed an age-appropriate understanding of phonological awareness (e.g., deciding whether two words started with the same sound, picking out the two words that rhymed from a list of three words). The teacher recommended continuing to enjoy reading and writing activities - Kelly was well-prepared for literacy activities in kindergarten. The teacher noted that Kelly had no difficulty adapting to the "practice" kindergarten activities the children were asked to do. Kelly was generally cooperative, avoided getting distracted, and stayed on task. Kelly did not get upset when mild stress occurred (such as an instruction to hurry up). The teacher recommended that Kelly be given...
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...By the end of this short introduction, I hope that some of my personality would have been able to shine through. I want to show you that I am ready to take the next step in my education after secondary school and to me that is studying at Christ the King Sixth Form College. I would describe myself as a person with a lot of integrity and a willingness to go the extra mile to reach a certain goal. I previously studied my GCSE’s in Harris Peckham. Academically I believe that the school was very capable and one lesson that, that school has taught me is that responsibility and reliability were very important traits to have when representing a school. In my free time, I enjoy going out, socialising and reconnecting with previous and new found friends. I am currently living with my single mother and younger brother in a council flat. The main goal I wish to achieve by the end of the year is to perhaps gain as much knowledge as possible in my chosen subjects for preparation for the exams also, making as much friends as possible is a must for me, as not many students from my previous school enrolled to this sixth form. Some obstacles that may possibly draw me back from academic achievement this year include procrastinating, not being able to find common ground with teachers, staff members and my fellow classmates and being mildly depressed. Being able to keep on board with tasks, keeping up with set homework and prep work and maintaining a positive mind-set will allow me guaranteed success...
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... 75 Effects of Computer Gaming on High School Students’ Performance in Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines Maria Daisy S. CORTES＊, Jhoana V. ALCALDE＊＊, Jose V. CAMACHO, Jr.＊＊＊ Abstract This study examined the effects of computer games on school performance of high school students in Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines. Allowance, gender, peer group and year level positively affect student’s decision to play while time spent on studying, year level, previous grade, number of books and time spent playing computer games are found to be significant in affecting student’s performance. Results showed that the probability of a computer gamer to fail is 39%, given the student has more than four siblings, a previous grade of at most 84, lesser teachers, lesser hours on studying, living near a computer shop, and spends more hours playing computer games. Moreover, 60% of the students’ daily allowance is spent on playing computer games. Keywords : investment in human capital, computer games, education production function, high school performance, Logit regression model ＊ Maria Daisy S. Cortes graduated in 2010 with a BS Economics degree at the University of the ＊ assistant professor, College of Economics and Management, University of the Philippines Los Baños. ＊ Philippines Los Baños, Laguna and currently works at Deutsche Knowledge Services, Taguig City 1634 Philippines. ＊ ＊ associate professor/associate dean, College of Economics and Management, University...
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