How to Use kindergarten in a Sentence

kindergarten

noun
  • This year the drop in kindergarten in L.A. Unified is 1.2%.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2022
  • My daughter is in the third grade and has had hers since kindergarten.
    — Scott Gilbertson, Wired News, 22 May 2025
  • The last time most second graders were in school was in kindergarten.
    — Danya Perez, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Oct. 2021
  • 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 school serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade.
    — Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News, 17 June 2022
  • For instance, this year, there is a kindergarten class and a sixth grade class.
    — J.k. Dineen, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Feb. 2023
  • The local kindergarten, where Katya worked as a cook, was destroyed, as was the school.
    — Unicef Usa, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • To think that kindergarten kids now know my name and my music?
    — Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 22 May 2025
  • The school has about 550 students from kindergarten through fifth grade.
    — Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2023
  • Now he’s in kindergarten, and Mirian cares for him full time.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2021
  • In the study, 25 days were added to the beginning of the school year for kindergarten through third-grade students.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The board will then finalize the plans for the classroom in kindergarten through 12th grade.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The new standards are designed to guide lessons from kindergarten through high school.
    — Ryan Dailey Miami Herald (tns), al, 20 July 2023
  • The kindergarten is run by Barnardo's in Bow in east London.
    — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The school enrolls students in kindergarten to sixth grade.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 20 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Luke Chacko was just in kindergarten when they were first bullied.
    — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Starting kindergarten is a major milestone in the life of a child.
    — Stephanie H. Murray, The Week, 26 July 2022
  • Whittier was the city’s first school to fly a US flag on the grounds and the first to offer kindergarten classes.
    — Randy Mason, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • Then in kindergarten, a friend gave him a Scrabble Jr. game for his birthday.
    — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 9 May 2022
  • 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 school consists of students from kindergarten through 12th grade.
    — Daniella Genovese, Fox News, 13 July 2022
  • Parents will have a choice of half-day kindergarten in the fall as well, according to the district.
    — Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 25 Jan. 2022
  • The speaker said the bill's number harkens to the age students begin kindergarten.
    — Jeremiah Poff, Washington Examiner, 1 Mar. 2023
  • This book is being taught as young as kindergarten in dozens of U.S. public schools.
    — Asra Q. Nomani, National Review, 9 Mar. 2022
  • Beyond literacy and math, the framework will apply to all subjects for kindergarten through eighth grade, Molinar said.
    — Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 21 May 2025

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