...traditional calendar is divided into nine months of instruction and three of vacation during the summer. Year-round calendars break these long instructional/ vacation blocks into a pattern of sixty days of instruction followed by twenty days of vacation.” (CA Dept of Education). Students who receive more frequent breaks don't receive a customary ten to twelve-week summer break. Removing any kind of long break from school can enhance a child’s educational accomplishment. Long summers are known for "summer slide," or the decay of cerebral abilities and loss of information throughout the longer break. Summer-slide is different across grade levels, subject matter and family income, according to the National Summer Learning Association. However, it still affects all children in some way. If a student does not have a long break, it helps prevent summer learning loss. Summer learning loss is a significant issue for children. All children – rich or poor - experience a slide in math over the summer. The slide is different for everyone. Despite the fact that it may appear fun, an extended summer break can frequently prompt weariness. Year-round school wipes out the need to fill the twelve weeks of summer break with exercises to keep children intrigued and locked in. If the summer break is not organized, then it seems too long. Great deals of children don’t have enough to do in the summer. However with the pros, come the cons? The most evident disadvantage of year-round school is the...
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...Academic Calendar for 2013/2014 Version 2 - October 2013 Date Sun 04 15 22 25 29 01 12 15 19 26 08 13 20 27 Start of Eid Al-Fitr Holiday End of Eid Al-Fitr Holiday Event Date Tue Wed 11 12 13 16 Event Open Day for high school students (Male) Open Day for high school students (Female) End of Application Period for Course Substitute Request (Spring 2014) Start of Admission Application period for Undergraduate, Visiting and Transfer students (Fall 2014) Start of Application period for Scholarships (Fall 2014) Start of Application period for re-enrollment (Fall 2014) Start of Application period for Change of Major & Minor, and application for Minor (Fall 2014) End of Application period for Change of Major & Minor, and application for Minor (Fall 2014) Last day to withdraw from a course (Spring 2014) Start of Mid Spring Vacation (Spring 2014) End of Mid Spring Vacation (Spring 2014) Start of Application period to register for classes in other universities (Summer 2014) Last day to withdraw from the semester (Spring 2014) End of Application period to register for classes in other universities (Summer 2014) Start of Early Registration (Fall 2014) End of Admission Application period for Graduate Studies (Fall 2014) Last day of classes of (Spring 2014) End of Admission Application for visiting applicants (Summer 2014) Start of Final Exams (Spring 2014) End of Final Exams (Spring 2014) Last day for Final Grades Submission (Spring 2014) Start of Application period...
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...2013 Summer Bridge to Success My Academic Plan Assign: Week 2, Due: Week 3 Fill in the sheet, listing the courses that you have taken/received credit for. For the other courses, please look in the schedule of classes to see if they are offered in the spring or the fall, and work out a schedule for completing your major Transfer/AP Credits: _____________________ Fall 20131) 119 - 101(CR)2) 160 - 161(CR)3) 640 - 135(CR)4) 355 - 101(CR)5) Figs - (CR)6) Byrne - (CR)Credits this semester: 17Total credits: 17 | Spring 20141) 119 - 102(CR)2) 160 - 162(CR)3) 640 - 136(CR)4) 160 - 113(CR)5) byrne - (CR)6) - (CR)Credits this semester: 16Total credits: 33 | Summer 2014 (optional)1) - (CR)2) - (CR)3) - (CR)4) - (CR)5) - (CR)6) - (CR)Credits this semester: Total credits: | Fall 20141) 750 - 203(CR)2) 750 - 205(CR)3) 146 - 245(CR)4) 146 - 270(CR)5) 119 - 156(CR)6) - (CR)Credits this semester: 15Total credits: 48 | Spring 20151) 750 - 204(CR)2) 750 - 206(CR)3) 119 - 150(CR)4) 840 - 201(CR)5) 450 - 103(CR)6) - (CR)Credits this semester: 13Total credits: 60 | Summer 2015 (optional)1) - (CR)2) - (CR)3) - (CR)4) - (CR)5) - (CR)6) - (CR)Credits this semester: Total credits: | Fall 20151) 447 - 380(CR)2) 160 - 307(CR)3) 730 - 107(CR)4) 050 - 101(CR)5) - (CR)6) - (CR)Credits...
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...The desirability of Whistler Blackcomb and Sochi as winter and summer destination resorts. We can think of Whistler Blackcomb and Sochi as winter and summer destination resorts by having in our mind one historical event for the year 2010 when the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games started in the westernmost province of British Columbia and recently launched the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. It makes sense to organize Olympic Games on the territories that can serve as winter and summer destination resorts. Why? To answer this question let’s consider the geography and all necessary infrastructures needed and designed to carry out the whole bunch of sport venues. Host country’s Organizing Committees are responsible for installing necessary infrastructures for organizing the Olympic Games such as Olympic Villages, air-supported domes, stadiums, training ice rinks and other facilities for competing during the games. It also assists with medical services, lodging facilities, means of transportation for the athletes and officials. For organizing Winter Olympic Games which includes alpine skiing, luge, ski jumping host county’s geography should provide mountain chains, and for Summer Olympics that include canoe sprint, canoe slalom or sailing, geographically the country needs ocean, seas and lakes. As it is mentioned in our case, Whistler is a resort town with nearly 10,000 permanent residents and has two million visitors annually. It served as the designated site of Olympic events. To attract...
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...North America all experienced the most peculiar July afternoon. It had started off a normal enough day: with wives drinking coffee and husbands reading newspapers; young children eating cereal and watching morning cartoons, while teenagers still sleeping in warm beds, with the stale smells of the previous night's party hanging in the air. All was normal and in order and as was to be expected. In the Midwest a farmer looked across his fields, with delight and anticipation. It hadn't rained in a day over a week and he thought to himself, they were due for a storm or at least a small cloud of liquid gold. In the Southwest, the city streets were all covered in a thin layer of dirty sand. The windows of buildings went unwashed throughout the dry summer months. The mayors of the towns long ago deciding not to waste the energy or time to clean off the dirt and sand which returned overnight, settling in the same cracks and surfaces as the previous day. Meteorologist couldn't explain the phenomena of a cross continental rain storm that was so quick moving and unexpected. Most people though, didn't want or need an explanation. For hours after the climax and thunder had ender, when all the streets and houses were clean and the deserts refreshed the rain remained as a thin mist all the way across the plains, fields, mountains, hills, deserts and coasts, catching each bit of light skewing the air into magnificent colors, no matter where the people...
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...Steph wrote a while back that she was sad to see summer going. For me, especially the way this summer has gone, I can’t agree. Yes, I’ll definitely miss the Saints games. I’ll miss the nice days, but for me, this is the time of year when I’m looking ahead. I’m getting closer to finishing up the software I’ve been working on all summer long. I may actually even get to take a real vacation in a month or two. Plus, with the advent of cooler evenings, I’m actually able to open the windows at home and avoid the noise of the air-conditioner and fans once in a while. And I’ve got a hope that with cooler weather, a break in the work (at least temporarily), and no Saints games taking up my my evenings, I’ll find more time to get out and ride my trike. And it’s been this way since I started my business. I’ve always tried to take on less work over the summers, but every year but one I’ve been working on a project that was originally supposed to be done in May, and ended up finishing around September. It’s a chronic problem in the software field, but being an outsider on these projects, I wonder why companies don’t bite off smaller chunks so they can let their employees take some time off during the summer when the ankle-biters are home from school, and families want to take vacations. And just for completeness’ sake, I should note that the one summer I had off, I was working on a project that was running late, and when hit with completely unreasonable demands on my time in May, I left...
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...Spring time and warm Autumn.. If we look to Rainfall diagram we can see that in Belfast raining every moth, most rain falls in July, so we can say it’s constantly raining. We can see in Belfast most of the time is cloudy, just in June and July it’s sunny, but rest of the months is cloudy. Second city Mexico, like we can see Mexico doesn’t have winter or Autumn ,as it is warm all year round, coldest temperature is in December which is +8 and anyway it’s quit warm if we compare with coldest Belfast temperature. Warmest temperature is +27 in May, so it’s really warm comparing with warmest Belfast temperature. In Mexico rains falls not all year round like in Belfast, it’s not raining at all or very little from December until April, but in Summer months June, July and August raining a lot., if we compare with Belfast it’s none month in the year in Belfast without rain. Another big difference between Belfast and Mexico is sun. In Mexico it’s lot of sun nearly every month in the year and just few months of Cloud and rain, which in Belfast it is cloudy most...
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...It was a month of june , and weather in the north of india was hot like anything , my kids were free from school for their summer vacations and we deceived to take a leave from our hectic schedule . We and one of my friend decided to visit Some hill station . Since it was a peak summer and vacations were on almost all Hotels and guest houses of hill were full to their capacity . As we were working on different options one of the destinations we were considering was Palampur . A quite and less commercial destination in foothills of dholadhar range . On discussing with one of my clients I got reference of Norwood greens a residential stay next to tea estate . We contacted there and we got a accommodation reserved . Next day early morning we started for our destination . By 9 am we reached chintpurni . There we had our breakfast and visited the temple shrine and by 10:30 we left for Palampur As we crossed chintpurni weather start changing as there was sudden change in temperature . Roads was full of sharp turns with hills on one side and valleys on others . There were lots of monkeys on the road. At 1:30 pm when we reached Palampur . As we entered Norwood greens We were tired of the long hectic journey but the moment we crossed living area and reached in rear lawn all our fatigue vanished . It was beautiful view of a tea estate and trees were full of parrots , suddenly cool breeze start blowing and as Palampur is famous for having highest rainfall...
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...My Ideal Summer Vacation A warm and sunny afternoon last day, I was in a deep thought. I was thinking, if I would be given a chance to have a summer vacation without worrying about the expenses, maybe it could be my ideal one. This thought triggered me to ask myself, “What would be my ideal summer vacation looks like?” To start my visualization, I would like to spend it in a place afar from the noisy streets of the city. A place where the only sounds I can hear are the chirping of the birds, the waves crashing on the shore and the laughter of my family. In that place, the trees are dancing gracefully and flowers are waving gently with the wind. In the distance, the shore is filled with sand so white, crystal clear water and with porpoises on the sea side. On the top of the hill resides our home, a small bungalow type but filled with so much contentment and joy. Inside of it are simple things to suffice our needs. Upon entering the entrance door, you will see the clean and tidy living room, with a window on the right that offers a beautiful sight of the blue ocean. Beside our home, there stood a tall and old narra tree that gives us shade during the day. Flowers of different kinds and varieties grows around the yard abundantly. Then, I can see the endless sky above with shiny shimmering stars blinking at night and in the water, it seems the unreachable stars are within my grasp. In a distance, I can see the fire keeps burning from the bonfire we have made, and beside it,...
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...In the article As the West Goes Dry, Service uses melting snow on the West and Northwest mountains to exemplify the effects of global warming. The western side of the country uses snow packs from the mountains for its reservoirs during the spring and summer months. 75% of water in Western streams is attributed to melted snow. Even with only a slight increase in temperature overtime (0.8’C), the snow packs have decreased significantly and the summertime flow of water from the melted snowpack is expected to be 20-50% less this year. Some climatologists believe these increases in temperature can be explained by the warming and cooling trends in the 1900s, where temperature increased during 1920s-1940s and decreased during 1950s-1960s, however that trend theory does not explain the largest loses of snowpack are at the lowest elevations. Even if we are currently in a warming trend, temperatures are only predicted to increase further and faster, leaving us with the same issues. The decrease in snow packs will impact where the limited water will be dispersed in the warmer months. This will especially affect farmers and agriculture. It will also increase the risk for natural disasters such as forest fires. The author offers unbiased information for the reader on the current melting snow in the West, why it is increasing, and what the potential outcomes could be. Service uses multiple academic sources, including reputable climatologists who oppose Service's explanation to further delve...
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...My summer expectationLærke Emig Bloch Hansen | Engelsk Essay Sønderborg Statsskole 2.J | My summer expectationLærke Emig Bloch Hansen | Engelsk Essay Sønderborg Statsskole 2.J | Summer, Out of all the season's I can think of, there is only one that comes to mind. Summer, the best season of them all. I am that kind of person there have a plan for my summer vacation. I am looking forward to summer in months, and I always have an idea of what a fantastic summer it is going to be. There are many reasons to why I think summer is the best, I mean, with winter, spring, and the fall. They are all great seasons too, but summer blows them all out of the way. The days are getting longer and the nights getting shorter. School is over, so you have the freedom and time, to do anything you want. No more nerve-wrecking testes, homework, or projects. Summer is just the time for fun and relaxing. That is the way I always look at my summer. It was the first day in my summer vacation. I had promised myself, that this summer was going to be crazy. I would do something that no one ever could exceed. My summer would be a whole history of action, activity and excitement, my summer was going to be the one that, everybody would like to hear about. What I did, was I jumped out of.... No wait, more like trying to get up in a slow motion kind of way. Anyway, I was going to have an astonishing day, the first day of ‘Lærkes crazy summer’ could now start. What I did after being...
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...“Motivation is what gets you started, [but] habits keep you going”. This is true for a lot of things; sports, eating habits, and academic habits. But it is almost impossible to keep up a steady academic habit over summer break. You are surrounded by distractions and the next school year seems like decades away. After all you have nothing but time on your hands. Consequently you lose 2.6 months of math over summer because you didn’t practice any positive habits. With year round schooling you would get the benefits of coming to school, the knowledge of last years learning, and longer winter spring and fall breaks. A year round schedule is the best possible way for teachers and administrators to insure the mental and physical health of all students. Some children depend on the benefits they are given at school to thrive. More than 30 million children are forced to take advantage of the free or reduced prices for lunches given at school for those that come from low income households. This might be there only nutritious meal of the whole day. What happens to those children on the three month long break from their best source of food. With a year round schedule, children are able to get meals over the summer, instead of going hungry. Also most low income...
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...The summer season is one of the main seasons of India. It starts from the month of April and lasts up to the end of June. There is intense heat during these months. The sun shines perpendicularly causing numerous difficulties for the people. They want to stay indoors, especially during mid-day. They get tired very soon and feel lethargic. Summer mornings are little bit pleasant and so are the summer evenings. Hence people look busy during these times. They try to finish all their work as quickly as possible because they know that a long hot day is waiting for them. At noon the heat is at its peak. The towns and cities look deserted. There are few people on the road. Sometimes it is too hot to continue the work. Everything is paralysed. People go inside their houses in the darkest room. They drink cold water again and again just to quench their thirst but they never feel satisfied. During summer we eat little food. We do not feel healthy and sometimes develop many complications regarding health. Any irregularity in food-habit leads to sickness. Hot wind called loo' blow throughout the day and many die of heat stroke. The rich people do not have much problem because they have electric fans, coolers and air conditioners. But the poor people have to face hardships. They go on with their work in the open under hot sun. The season is lazy one. People do not feel active and only want to sit under fan in the cold dark room. It is therefore all schools and colleges are...
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...DepEd chief: Moving start of classes to September will only benefit some areas KIMBERLY JANE TAN, GMA NewsAugust 14, 2012 3:30pm 61 4 2 1307 Tags: Department of Education Moving the opening of classes to September will only benefit some areas and not the entire country, Department of Education Secretary Armin Luistro said Tuesday. "When I looked at the data it looks like there is very little additional advantage, benefit for schools if you look at things nationwide," Luistro said at a Senate hearing on the K to 12 basic education program. Luistro said that proposals to move the opening of classes from June to September will probably just benefit the National Capital Region (NCR). "Obviously we cannot have a different start of the school year recognizing that the country may have different ways of experiencing the weather," he said. "I think the benefit of moving it to September may be confined to maybe NCR and a few other regions, but that may not necessarily translate to additional safety realities for the other regions," he added. Two climate types PAGASA acting deputy administrator for research and development Flaviana Hilario explained that the country has two climate types: Western areas of the country such as the NCR and Central Luzon fall under type 1 climate, which experiences rain from May to September. Eastern areas such as Aurora and the Bicol region experience type 2 climate, with their rainy season lasting from October to January...
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...WK 2: Community Profile In a community there lives a diverse group of people. These people are what make a community a home or a neighborhood. This neighborhood needs to be respected and protected in order for people to thrive and carry-on with their everyday lives. My community is made up families raising their children and just going with everyday life. We take pride in living for our children. Sports and education is big in the community, during school and during the summer months as well. When the adults are not working they take their leisure time going to basketball games on Friday nights during the fall or baseball games during the summer. Also during the summer months my community has a farmers market. The farmers market supports local farmers and also brings other small businesses out. The farmers market always brings out the community and brings people together. It is also a great way to contribute to small businesses and give back. Some other wonderful, fun things we have during the summer months that brings the community together are car shows, a day in the park and the jubilee. A reason we can have these things is because of the workforce in the community. The workforce ranges from industry to clerical to fast food to medical. We are very diverse in what needs to be done. The community used to be mostly industrial but a lot of factories were shutdown due to the economy. The community still has a couple of bigger industrial factories that are in production but...
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