Then I like to help the first graders with their reading and sight words.
Apparently, Estonia recently announced schools there would start teaching programming to first graders.
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But five years old is first grade, and first graders have a long way to go to reach maturity.
The plan would provide grants for school districts to beef up their literacy efforts for kindergartners and first graders, including providing tutors.
Kindergarteners and first graders received instruction in literacy and math.
And he said, well, you know, my biggest problem is, Korean parents are too demanding and they are insisting, for example, that I import, and I've had to import, thousands of foreign English teachers because they all feel that first graders should be learning English already.
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Stories of seven-year-olds suspended for biting a pastry into the shape of a gun, first graders sent home for talking about toy guns, or kindergarteners suspended for bringing a toy gun to school or just discussing shooting a bubble squirt gun at another child are depressingly commonplace.
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Sometimes, for example, it makes sense to group Ursetta's kindergarten students with first-graders working on the same subject.
Two months ago, America mourned 26 innocent first-graders and their educators in Newtown.
Nobody disagrees that the killing of 20 first-graders in a small town in Connecticut was a tragedy that must never happen again.
Ben Wheeler was among the 20 first-graders and six adults killed in the Dec. 14 attack at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.
The deaths of 20 first-graders and six adults compel all Americans as sons and daughters, fathers and mothers, uncles and aunts, to consult their moral compasses.
That figure already represents 13% of the Jewish male age group (Arab-Israelis are also exempt from the draft) and is set to grow fast: among Jewish schoolchildren, 26% of first-graders are haredi.
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Neil Heslin asked lawmakers to look at the issue from his perspective, as a father whose 6-year-old son, Jesse Lewis, was gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School, as were 19 other first-graders and six educators.
The amendment will be one of perhaps dozens to be debated on the broader package of gun laws drafted in response to the killing of 20 first-graders and six educators at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.
To Erica Lafferty, the daughter of the principal of the Newtown, Connecticut, school who was killed along with 20 first-graders and five other educators in the December attack, the vote amounted to inaction in the face of a national tragedy.
Simpson recalled then heading to an hour-long award ceremony for first and second graders to toast their many achievements, then to a practice for sixth-graders' commencement exercises.
The department hopes to enroll about 360 first- through third-graders in what it's calling the Early Literacy Skills Camp and 360 sixth- through eighth-graders in the 21st Century Skills Camp, according to the outlines of the program issued this week by the department.
In response to assessments like these, some states have upped their game -- I want to point to Massachusetts as an example, where eighth graders now tie for first in science around the world.
Jacket and tie were no longer mandatory, hair could be as long as we dared, and seventh and eighth graders were no longer known as first and second formers.
The English tests, administered to third- through eighth-graders beginning Tuesday, were the first in New York to evaluate students on uniform standards that have been adopted by most states and emphasize critical thinking.
Brown and Mr. Smith both teach a classroom of third graders who score at the fiftieth percentile on math and reading tests on the first day of school, in September.
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