Essays Tagged: "Kindergarten"

The kindergarten

warm air on my face coming from under the bonnet. I got in the car and we made our way towards the kindergarten.As we came closer we could make out the kindergarten on the horizon. The fluorescent ye ...

(3 pages) 45 0 4.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Friends Till the End

g one small section of the bay. But his world was about to be invaded. Chris, his best friend since kindergarten, would be showing up any minute. And Bobby knew that before this afternoon ended, their ...

(5 pages) 148 1 4.4 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Descriptive Essays

Tales of a Pre-schooler

he adults called it."Hair-gee House" was a former residence that was converted into a preschool and Kindergarten for3, 4,and 5 year olds. The building, which seemed immense to me at the time, was whit ...

(5 pages) 58 0 3.7 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

What is the real purpose of education? Are we in it simply for the purpose of learning? Essay suggests that there is more to an education than books.

t major step toward becoming a well-rounded individual through education takes place during the pre-kindergarten and kindergarten years. I remember when I entered my first year of school at the ripe a ... ied about what the other children would think of me and how I would get along with my teachers. Pre-kindergarten and kindergarten however, proved to be the best years of my life. Those early years of ...

(3 pages) 275 0 3.7 Dec/2002

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Why Tennessee should have a lottery to fund student's education

that revenues are earmarked for three education programs- HOPE College Scholarships, universal pre-kindergarten, and education infrastructure" (Rubenstein & Scafidi, Who Pays and Who Benefits?) G ... g Outstanding Pupils Educationally).This program is primary for college scholarships and public pre-kindergarten. Any left over revenue from the lottery goes for kindergarten through twelfth grade spe ...

(3 pages) 77 1 4.7 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

What is the most trouble you have ever given your parents? What is the most enjoyment you have ever given you parents?

It all started at the age of 5 years old in kindergarten. I wasn't the average kind of boy you expected me to be. I would have these rages that ...

(1 pages) 37 0 3.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Piaget's Response to education.

oling, creating challenging lessons for classes, and by creating richer learning environments.Since kindergarten to high school, I believe that Piaget has shaped my education, his concept that childre ... nfluence on the different levels of education, for example when we first begin school we go through kindergarten, which if we compare to Piaget's child development theory it would fall under the early ...

(3 pages) 159 0 4.7 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee.

d matures a lot is when she is just six years old. Scout begins school when she is six years old at kindergarten in the town of Maycomb. Scout's first day of school wasn't very pleasant and she didn't ...

(3 pages) 64 1 4.6 Aug/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee

In "Fern Hill," by Dylan Thomas depicts a child's magical childhood and the restraints time has on life itself.

Poetry CommentaryIt is often said that in kindergarten every life lesson necessary for survival is taught. Children run, play, and most import ...

(2 pages) 64 0 4.0 Aug/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

A creative piece of writing about an important experince in my life.

n't recollect at all. I pride myself on my ability to remember in detail pivotal events in my life. Kindergarten, my first day at primary school, all like photographs tattooed in my memory so I'll nev ...

(2 pages) 120 2 4.6 Aug/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Good will hunting psychological approach.

issubconscious mind and were impulses from childhood experiences. For example, Will was beatenup in kindergarten by a bully, later on in his life he sees the bully and starts a fight with him. Hisdeci ...

(2 pages) 106 1 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Ben Franklin and Robert Fulghum use aphorisms in their writing.

The ABC's of Aphorisms in KindergartenAn aphorism is a short statement expressing a truth or clever observation. Benjamin Fran ...

(2 pages) 16 0 0.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

Growing up gay.

y sure I was gay a long time before I knew what the word meant. My earliest memory on this was from kindergarten, I used to always want to hang out with the boys and be extra nice to the girls in my c ... out the outward appearance and not about who the person is or what their about? When I was in about kindergarten I kind of figured maybe I liked girls but I thought that it was wrong. It was drilled i ...

(3 pages) 76 1 4.5 Nov/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Homosexuality

A narative essay about a young boy going to a new school.

only about twelve hundred people on my island; the school had about one hundred kids attending from kindergarten to grade six. It was a brand new school with all the latest gadgets and gizmos, and we ...

(5 pages) 55 0 5.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

A essay on how I help my community and therefor help myself

ding program run through my local library that promotes reading to youths between the grades of pre-kindergarten through sixth grade. For the last three summers I have volunteered there and for the pa ...

(2 pages) 58 0 5.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters

"The Chiefs Daughter" by Rosemary Sutcliff

boggling.However, when I related this question to my own life it began to make sense. When I was in Kindergarten, my mom called me downstairs very early before school for my 6th Birthday. Then she han ...

(2 pages) 12 0 0.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

An essay dispelling the myth of Abraham Lincoln's "high moral status"

Lincoln as the "Great Emancipator" and a hero of civil rights has been drilled into our heads since kindergarten. The myth of Lincoln as a profoundly moral man has been perpetrated since the end of th ...

(3 pages) 37 0 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test

da Child Abuse Test". This one test can hold on to the very thing you've been working forever since kindergarten years: you're diploma. Is it fair to base your whole graduation on this so-called "educ ...

(2 pages) 41 0 3.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Schooling at the Age of 3 is a Waste of Time

elves properly. Would it make sense to put this child in school? Compulsory attendance or mandatory kindergarten at the age of 3 is not the way to improve academic excellence. In fact, it may harm the ... up all that money.The theory is that lowering the compulsory school age will ensure children enter kindergarten or the first grade ready to learn. Having mastered basic pre-reading and pre-math skill ...

(3 pages) 48 1 2.6 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Ritalin: The Answer to All Our Hyperactive Children?

into space or playing his video games. She's been aware of his short attention span since he was in kindergarten, but she always figured it was a typical problem for kids his age. But now he's in thir ...

(9 pages) 82 0 3.8 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology