How to Use kindergarten in a Sentence

kindergarten

noun
  • House said her son’s kindergarten teacher taught her class about bats and brought them to the cave.
    Jack Armstrong, The Arizona Republic, 17 Aug. 2024
  • The school has about 550 students from kindergarten through fifth grade.
    Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2023
  • Many schools require kids to turn 5 by September 1 in order to start kindergarten.
    Cheryl Bird, Rn, Parents, 25 July 2024
  • Many districts’ transitional kindergarten programs last only three hours a day.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2023
  • Health officials focus on kindergarten because it’s when most children enter school systems.
    Mike Stobbe, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The district’s enrollment more than quadrupled under his leadership and grew from offering only kindergarten through middle school to adding a high school.
    Dallas News, 11 Jan. 2023
  • There’s a reason kindergarten classes are filled with construction paper, watercolors, construction paper, and art aisles.
    Essence, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The goal is to have the kids ready for kindergarten and launched on a path toward reading.
    Cynthia McFadden, NBC News, 2 Dec. 2023
  • For instance, this year, there is a kindergarten class and a sixth grade class.
    J.k. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The new standards are designed to guide lessons from kindergarten through high school.
    Ryan Dailey Miami Herald (tns), al, 20 July 2023
  • The books are aimed at kids in kindergarten through high school and are organized by grade.
    Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Apr. 2024
  • By that point, many parents had run over to the kindergarten in a panic, calling out the names of the children.
    Serhiy Morgunov, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The schools serving kids in kindergarten through second grade sit a few blocks west.
    Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 2 May 2024
  • 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
  • The speaker said the bill's number harkens to the age students begin kindergarten.
    Jeremiah Poff, Washington Examiner, 1 Mar. 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
  • Smith joined the Mill Valley School District in 2013 and taught music in kindergarten through fifth grade.
    Cameron MacDonald, The Mercury News, 3 May 2024
  • 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
  • The district oversees 41 schools for students in kindergarten through high school.
    Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 4 June 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
  • Transitional kindergarten, known as TK, has been more of a bright spot.
    Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2024
  • 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

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