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.
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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.
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Posted by Chip on October 17, 2008
The full New England Hunter’s Moon is setting over the hill west of the house this early autumn morning. The hill itself is dressed in peak colors of scarlet and orange, yellows of birch and maple. Frost has come. The extremes of the four seasons here are so in tune with the extremes of the nine-year-old [...]
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