How to Use kindergartner in a Sentence

kindergartner

noun
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  • In some school systems, even kindergartners do some homework.
    — Robert H. Tai, The Conversation, 9 Aug. 2019
  • Inside the school, kindergartners-to-eighth-graders donned the same navy blue bottoms and white button-down tops.
    — Kelly Glass, Washington Post, 30 July 2019
  • In another, kindergartners spend months learning about trees, and first graders explore birds.
    — Natalie Wexler, The Atlantic, 9 July 2019
  • Yale researchers who have studied hundreds of kindergartners for nearly 40 years say one in five was dyslexic.
    — CBS News, 22 Aug. 2019
  • At 17 of those schools schools, 30% or more of the kindergartners had medical exemptions.
    — Melody Gutierrez, latimes.com, 1 July 2019
  • However, parents of kindergartners have been seeking more and more exemptions.
    — Roy Kent, Houston Chronicle, 31 July 2019
  • At Frank Elementary, dozens of parents waved goodbye to their kindergartners and first-graders.
    — Lily Altavena, azcentral, 5 Aug. 2019
  • The superintendent said it was mission accomplished getting kindergartners ready for their first day of school.
    — John Benson, cleveland.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The first day of school for kindergartners and Soaring Eagles Preschool is Aug. 26.
    — cleveland.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The young girls, ranging from kindergartners to eighth graders, learned about the solar system, asteroids and constellations.
    — Brooke Lamantia, ExpressNews.com, 25 July 2019
  • Over the past three years, the number of kindergartners who were home-schooled and did not have their shots quadrupled, according to a Times analysis of state data.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 July 2019
  • Criminal charges won’t be filed against two teachers who parents accused of swearing at and physically abusing autistic kindergartners.
    — Lisa J. Huriash, sun-sentinel.com, 3 July 2019
  • The mom of three has been juggling a 2-year-old, a preschooler and a kindergartner.
    — Emma Talley, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 May 2021
  • Michael Podolsky of Deerfield watched son Austin, 5, a kindergartner, play a bean bag toss game on the lawn in the park.
    — Karie Angell Luc, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Maybe Dad folds laundry on the couch while his kindergartner builds a block tower on the floor.
    — Rachel Feintzeig, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2021
  • After the second-graders, who dined at 10:30 a.m., came the kindergartners.
    — Karina Elwood, Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Hanna and John Toman dropped off their kindergartner for the first time, along with his third- and fourth-grade siblings.
    — Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Who will ensure kindergartners keep their hands out of their mouths?
    — Jill Tucker, SFChronicle.com, 4 May 2020
  • The kindergartner is the couple’s oldest of their four children.
    — Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 9 Aug. 2022
  • You, me, our cousins, nieces, nephews, uncles, aunts, parents, those kids across the street, kindergartners in Des Moines.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Her kindergartner has autism and has been back in school in-person since January.
    — Jennifer Calfas, WSJ, 18 Apr. 2021
  • At the school, J. escorted one of his daughters, a kindergartner, to her classroom.
    — New York Times, 28 Jan. 2021
  • What began in a church choir as a kindergartner now finds a cinematic bookend in Tran’s 30s, with a role and a prayer.
    — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2021
  • The Soloves’ kindergartner, Ezra, has already come up with a rebuilding plan.
    — Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Shatavia Dorsey, the mother of a kindergartner and a fifth grader, said her children are going to wear their masks at school regardless of the rules.
    — Jeff Amy, chicagotribune.com, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The district will also deploy JCPS vans to retrieve a kindergartner from the bus if a parent is not at their stop when the bus arrives.
    — Krista Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The Texas mom pulled three of her kids – a kindergartner and twin first-graders – from public school in favor of home education this school year.
    — Megan Myers, Fox News, 24 Sep. 2022
  • At the time, Red Cloud's 500 students—ranging from kindergartners to high school seniors—relied on a network of steam pipes to keep warm.
    — Rowan Moore Gerety, WIRED, 13 July 2023
  • Developmental experts, and even Lopez, agree with the change, as Connecticut joins the majority of other states that require kindergartners to be 5.
    — Jessika Harkay, Hartford Courant, 18 Feb. 2024
  • But in Broward County, Florida, just 91.7% of kindergartners are fully vaccinated, part of a trend of falling vaccination rates nationwide.
    — Joel Mathis, theweek, 27 Feb. 2024

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