How to Use kindergarten in a Sentence

kindergarten

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  • The goal is to have the kids ready for kindergarten and launched on a path toward reading.
    — Cynthia McFadden, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2023
  • The new standards are designed to guide lessons from kindergarten through high school.
    — Ryan Dailey Miami Herald (tns), al, 20 July 2023
  • The 2022 law bared such instruction in kindergarten through third grade.
    — Leslie Postal Orlando Sentinel (tns), al, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The kindergarten was unoccupied at the time of the attack, and no bystanders were wounded in the blast.
    — Timothy H.j. Nerozzi Fox News, Fox News, 3 Nov. 2023
  • Her oldest, now a sophomore in high school, could have been in the first kindergarten class to attend school in the new K-8 building.
    — Becca Savransky, ProPublica, 6 Sep. 2023
  • The 65-year-old was a kindergarten teacher from the Beeri kibbutz, one of the towns devastated by Hamas.
    — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2023
  • In its first year, UCS enrolled 260 students in kindergarten through eighth grade.
    — Tcrain, al, 4 Aug. 2023
  • This fall, school begins Aug. 17 for all students in kindergarten through 12th grade.
    — Madeline Mitchell, The Enquirer, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Currently, the state outlaws any such lessons in kindergarten through third grade.
    — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
  • Then, ultimately, taken back to the area of the kindergarten to the safest tunnel entrance.
    — Michael Tobin, Fox News, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Frank and Trevon Alfred met in kindergarten and spent most of their time together – in and out of class – until fourth grade.
    — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 4 Oct. 2023
  • That would exceed the reach of Florida’s law, which limits such talks in kindergarten through third grade.
    — Valeria Olivares, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
  • Born in Jerusalem in 1979 to a father who was a painter and a mother who was a kindergarten principal, Nachum grew up painting.
    — Christopher Kuo, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Politics In Alaska, only a third of children meet the state’s goals to be ready for kindergarten.
    — Claire Stremple, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2023
  • The district will this year require clear or mesh backpacks for all students in kindergarten through high school.
    — Talia Richman, Dallas News, 14 Aug. 2023
  • But this is the first time the couple have toured as parents, with Sadie joining them on the 10-month, coast-to-coast trip before starting kindergarten next fall.
    — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2023
  • The school system first adopted the Units of Study program in 2019, and it is currently being used in kindergarten through fifth grade.
    — Katia Parks, Baltimore Sun, 13 June 2023
  • The initial law that DeSantis championed last spring bans those lessons in kindergarten through the third grade.
    — Anthony Izaguirre, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Ciske has a second-grader in the district and another child who will enter kindergarten in the fall.
    — Rory Linnane, Journal Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Image The dog-sledding camp is on a desolate hill near a kindergarten, where children learn to hunt.
    — Taymour Soomro Scott Conarroe, New York Times, 10 May 2023
  • Zaira Valadez, a second-grade teacher, told me that many of her students were stuck at kindergarten math levels.
    — Meg Bernhard, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2023
  • All students in kindergarten through third grade have their reading skills tested at the beginning, middle and end of the school year.
    — Trisha Powell Crain | Tcrain@al.com, al, 20 June 2023
  • But the transfers to a dozen or so schools between kindergarten and fifth grade made academics difficult.
    — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The Covenant School is a private school founded in 2001 that serves students in pre-kindergarten through sixth grade, according to its website.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2023
  • According to her LinkedIn profile, McGee had worked at the school, which teaches kindergarten through 12th grade, for almost 12 years.
    — Chloe Taylor, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Her twin sons are in 5-year-old kindergarten at Kosciuszko School and in their second year of being taught using the science of reading approach.
    — Alan J. Borsuk, Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2023
  • The program has grown to include videos, workshops, books and other resources for children in kindergarten through 12th grade.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2023
  • So the actors in the kindergarten classrooms are actually 5-year-olds, and most 5-year-olds struggle with sitting still from take to take.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The first years were difficult, but my amazing daughter is now doing great in kindergarten.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 29 Mar. 2024
  • When schools shut down, Abrego, then a stay-at-home mom, suddenly became her kindergarten boys’ home school teacher.
    — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Mar. 2024

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