The words for "Wake Up, World, " a song about awaiting spring's return, are written at a first grader's level.

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But unlike Nativ, the first grader managed to escape with a fractured skull.

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First-grader Aiden Licata, whose class was going to make the gingerbread house, thought it was the sound of hammers.

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It seems odd to think of this first-grader who simply wants to use the bathroom as a civil rights pioneer.

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She has a great nephew who is a first-grader that attends the school and was one room away from the shooting.

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So, go ahead and get the first-grader a Firefly if you must (we prefer two tin cans and a very long length of cord).

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The death of Ammaria Johnson, a first-grader with food allergies, earlier this year, has caused an out-pouring of outrage, grief, sadness, and concern among those in the food allergy community.

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For now, the first-grader is being homeschooled.

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"I feel like a third-grader on the first day of summer, " she says.

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Five years later as a sixth-grader Roh won his first election as student council president.

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In the national concert music contest held in Kyoto Hall July 7, Bok Seigen (Pak Song-won), seventh grader of Rakunan Junior High School, came in first without dispute...

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At first glance, Pierce Freeman looks like your average eighth-grader.

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