Word: kindergarten
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...know this isn't the kind of thing a grown woman should admit, but I'm stressed about my back-to-school outfit. "You?'' a colleague asked when I sought wardrobe advice. "You're going to go back to school?'' Technically, my son's the one starting kindergarten. But I'm the one with the jitters. My firstborn is so nonchalant--about making friends, meeting his teachers--that he asked if he could walk himself to school when it starts...
Then there's all that academic pressure (on me). Sure, my son will have a lot to learn, but he's smart, and he's not expected to possess kindergarten-level knowledge already, as, ahem, I am. Can someone explain the difference between a dolphin and a porpoise--quick? And the sky is blue why exactly...
...hardly your average freshman, Jessica Lynch in a few weeks will be trying hard to blend in at West Virginia University. At 22, the former Army supply clerk, who became an icon after her dramatic rescue from an Iraqi hospital in 2003, hopes one day to be a kindergarten teacher. She spoke with TIME's Wendy Cole about coping with the attention and prefreshman jitters...
...blocks away, at Humboldt Park Elementary School, which serves kindergarten through eighth grade, a charming scene unfolds in Karen Hennessy's classroom. Her kindergartners are enjoying a visit from their eighth-grade "buddies." All around the room, big kids sit knees to chest in miniature chairs or cross-legged on the alphabet carpet. Each little kid has chosen a picture book to share with a big buddy. Some lean on eighth-grade laps as they listen. Logan Wells, a strapping 14-year-old, reads The Little Engine That Could to Alec Matias and Jacob Hill. Jacob, 5, seems mesmerized equally...
...liners don’t usually work as well in real life as they do in the movies, but I could see him approaching every policy decision like a movie line. On law enforcement: “I’m a cop, you idiot.” (Kindergarten Cop). On food and agriculture: “Milk is for babies, I drink beer.” (Pumping Iron). And on military affairs: “Get in the chopper. Do it now!” (Predator...