Posted by Chip on November 6, 2011
Nine is not always an easy age, but it is an age of growing social awareness, of intellectual stretching, wondering, and clamoring. JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your own thoughts! —If you’re reading this entry on the blog site, click “Post a Comment” or the word “Comments” below the entry —If [...]
Categories: Children's Positive Attributes, Thinking Developmentally |
Tags: Billy Collins, children's positive attributes, children's strengths, developmental changes, fourth grade, nine-year-olds, Thinking Developmentally, Yardsticks | 
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Posted by Chip on October 26, 2011
I recently started a series of posts talking about the normal developmental characteristics of children as discussed in my book Yardsticks: Children in the Classroom Ages 4–14. In this post I’ll describe some of the characteristics of younger, on-age, and older fourth grade students. JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your own [...]
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Posted by Chip on January 30, 2009
Blog readers, you may have noticed (or can refer to) my exchange with fourth grade teacher Leslie Leff, writing from a charter school in Philly about the pros and cons of keeping fourth grade classrooms self-contained. I thought parents of eight-, nine-, and ten-year-olds and fourth grade teachers everywhere might like to hear more on this. [...]
Categories: Schoolwide Issues, Thinking Developmentally |
Tags: fourth grade, fourth graders, self-contained classsrooms | 4 Comments »
Posted by Chip on September 17, 2008
Nine is not an easy age–to be or to help a child through. At this age, children can seem at any given moment particularly moody, oppositional, worried, anxious, thoughtful, critical, kind, or impatient. JOIN THE CONVERSATION! Ask Chip a question or share your own thoughts! —If you’re reading this entry on the blog site, click [...]
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