| 单词 | grader |
| 例句 | “Em, they said there aren’t that many spots for seventh graders, remember? You guys will get in next year.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z In a flash, the fifth graders of Lovelace Elementary were crowded around Hazel. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “Only seventh graders at this school were eligible to enter the essay contest to win a spot at the library lock-in,” added Sierra. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z Pretty hot question for eighth graders, if you ask me, but I was excited by it, too, because I liked when teachers asked hard questions. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z When she handed the bills to Petey, she said, “Sooooooo,” drawing out the vowel with such forced casualness that a first grader would have been suspicious. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Better than any eighth grader he had ever coached before. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z I had even passed some of the eighth graders, and I could see the leaders in front of me again. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z A couple of black eighth graders start clapping and shouting, “Right on!” and “You go, sister!” but the rest of us are standing there with our tongues glued to the bottoms of our mouths. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Bill Gates got to do real-time programming as an eighth grader in 1968. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z There had been a few seventh graders scattered among the other teams, but all the rest of the middle school regional champs were eighth graders. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The average Lovelace fifth grader could not differentiate this from her normal state, but Hazel was attuned to these kinds of subtleties. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z “Only the seventh and eighth graders get to go.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z “Seems that Betty learned that being popular in ninth grade doesn't mean much to an eleventh grader.” The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z They added up to this: All the eighth graders would have to squeeze into the high school; all the seventh graders would have to squeeze into the middle school. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Danny understood this, too, since he ran behind the eighth graders on the junior varsity team, and they were angry eighth graders. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Monday’s brother, August, should have been with the fifth graders, but he was nowhere in sight. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z That first week, the second graders made red-and-green construction paper chains that they hung the length of the elementary and junior high school halls. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “Yes. I’m a seventh grader at Riverview Middle School—that’s a public school, a school maintained at public expense, so I want to say thanks to the public.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The fifth-grade boys, bursting with new importance, ordered the fourth graders this way and that, while the smaller boys tried to include themselves without being conspicuous. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z She recognized and acknowledged our huge mess, and that our feelings—despite our being just fifth graders—were very real. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z That eighth grader might not believe that stuff, but Frank does. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Soojin’s sister, a fourth grader, reminds me of a mini, shyer, and quieter version of Soojin and often makes me wish I had a real little sister—in addition to Rabiya. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z And under ordinary circumstances there would be a class of seventh graders to replace the seniors. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The sixth graders are going to do the Blast from the Past rehearsal next. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I can’t believe I even just said kindergartners and first graders who were gunned down. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z So I picked up my book and hiked back up the stairs with the fourth grader. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z “Then Brooke, and that sixth grader with the guitar I heard rehearsing in the stairwell, and, of course, the Great Timdini.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z The happening no sixth grader could avoid, unless her parents forbade her to go. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Melba June Monroe, an eleventh grader, looked me over. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The same for the waitress, the payroll manager, and the third grader. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The school nurse had come in and taught a first-aid unit to the sixth graders earlier that year, and Chess was proud of himself for remembering the symptoms. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I was standing in the goal at soccer practice taking shots from some of the starting players, mostly eighth graders. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Emily rounded a corner, passing the papier-mache witch hats decorated by sixth graders that lined the windows of the library. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z When I catch a group of eighth graders looking at me before homeroom on Friday, I force myself to smile instead of look away. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Jojo made as if to fling the mud ball at his sister, but aimed for the third graders in front of him instead. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I glanced up and saw the screaming horde of first graders rushing down the aisle to sit in the front rows. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Seventh graders? Mr. Tushman didn’t tell us that. Oh my goodness.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z But he wanted to start the seventh and eighth graders now so that he could choose a varsity team and have them run over the summer and be ready to begin real competition by September. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I still felt like the first grader in the lunch line who’d just been walloped. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I’m impressed with the team that shows up—most of the art club, a lot of kids from the meeting, and about twenty sixth graders. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z A kid the size of a first grader who sucked on an inhaler all the time sure had a lotta nerve shushing people, Chet thought. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z He was the same eighth grader who had named me Mars long ago, those many weeks ago. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was truly the room of a second grader, complete with teddy bears scattered all over the floor and plastic teacups and teapots toppled here and there. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The outside world felt distant, and she couldn’t make out the whispers of the fourth graders behind her. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z A gangly seventh grader, a foot taller than any of her competitors, Marjory Muldauer had memorized the ten categories of the Dewey decimal system before she entered preschool. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z The eighth graders laughed, but when I didn’t go away Gino said to me, “You here to play, or you here to model sportswear?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Ms. Parker signals with her hands for us to get louder, and all the fifth graders on all the instruments play forte so loudly, my ears hurt. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z The sixth graders are determined to make more links than everybody else, so they skimp on the glue and their chain comes apart. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Seventh graders were to report to the auditorium. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Kids grabbed at it until an eighth grader emerged with it on his head. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z A gigantic eighth grader named Noah “No Neck” Nelson strode up the hall. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z For the rest of that day, and until after lunch on the next, he had been “the fastest kid in the third, fourth, and fifth grades,” and he only a fourth grader. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z All the PTA mothers looked forward to sewing dresses, teaching their sons to do the box step, and giving assemblies on how sixth graders are expected to behave at the dance. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “I had no idea seventh graders have anything to break up from,” Dad puts in, surprised. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The kid in the gray sweatshirt played goal for the eighth graders. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Birmingham Middle has sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z She didn’t know what might happen if a dump of eighth graders caught a seventh grader in the lead. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Then Joe would go home and find his seventh grader on the World Wide Web researching a term paper, using open protocols, and looking at the holdings of some art museum in France. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z He had heard all about her, and he had seen fifth graders in the library last year, noses stuck in their dictionaries, frantically trying to finish their vocabulary sheets before English class. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I was kind of lagging behind on the sixth graders because they weren’t in the C Average yearbook. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z By the time I came around for the second time, things were slowing down considerably, and every eighth grader—and a whole lot of the seventh graders—were far ahead of me. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Some tall eighth graders are standing behind me. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z So in a last-ditch effort, I squeaked “I had a really great weekend” to Annie, but I sounded like a third grader on helium. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Older students are allowed to roam until the bell, but ninth- graders are herded into the auditorium. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Seventh and eighth graders are too old for grandparents, apparently. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z At twelve, though, Carla was at least a year older than most sixth graders, and she felt mortified at the thought of having to repeat yet another year. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z It was Patrick, with a bunch of other eighth graders, including Julie Hopper, who patted Em on the head as she passed. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Even the sixth graders could see how dopey that was. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z I might not have understood a great many things about the world, I might have only had a fourth grader’s education, but I could tell when someone was trying to fish around for information. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z An attractive high school girl had to look good to an eighth grader, especially one who had barely laid eyes on a female who wasn’t his grandmother. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z The front seats are mostly occupied by kids who are squirming so nervously, they must be sixth graders. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z After all, next term was coming, and it never hurt a sixth grader to have a play sister in the eighth grade, or a tenth-year student to be able to call a twelfth grader Bubba. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I got up before I began to bawl like a first grader. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Behind him, I could see a few kids I didn’t know — probably sixth graders on their way somewhere — looking in. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They’re big complainers—“their” gym is being hogged by a bunch of do-gooders; where are they supposed to shoot around before school; sixth and seventh graders will volunteer for anything; blah, blah, blah. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The next year, Bridge, Tab, and Emily were the set of fifth graders who drew creatures on their homework papers, and they drew the same things they had drawn before: bird, snake, and Martian. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z By the third week in September, although the sixth graders were still teasing April—from a safe distance—they were beginning to think of her rather proudly, as their own private oddball. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The fourth grader waited for me by the door with his sticker on. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z There was no sign of the seventh graders anywhere. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z And on Friday, I will probably be the only fifth grader trick-or-treating alone, with my mom. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z They found that among fourth graders, the oldest children scored somewhere between four and twelve percentile points better than the youngest children. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z He looked like a fifth grader on his way to a sleepover. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z And we definitely didn’t have time to explain seventh graders, if Ms. Wardak didn’t understand things. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It was Claudia and a few of the first graders who joined in first, just like they did at school. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Sixth graders go to the right. Everyone come in. Come in. Good morning. Go to your staging areas. Fifth graders to the left, sixth grade to the right. . .” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z One girl, an eighth grader who played the piano, was shaking so hard she had to start four times. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z It is the third grader who, worried about not making it to the fourth grade, copies test answers from the kid sitting next to him. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “But I thought we were drawing the human figure in motion,” said one seventh grader. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z But in every scenario at school, it had been a fifth grader, who’d been pretending to be a bully, that had tried to get me to drink. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Overcome, she gave up the mike to the seventh grader beside her. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Inside the envelope were a stack of cards, a bunch of rubber stamps, an ink pad, and a sheet of three-ring-binder paper filled with a fifth grader’s sloppy handwriting. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Around mid-September, two seventh graders bumped into me because they were texting each other while walking to class. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Did he really think I was that awful that I would have been rooting for some seventh graders while they beat Auggie up? Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z And then Natalie had added in a scornful voice, “For a fifth grader, anyway.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z She sent one of the sixth graders in for Maya, who got a loud ovation from the fans. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Suppose eighth graders thought I was a rat eater? Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At lunchtime, I was afraid to go out for recess, since I figured that Mrs. Baker had probably recruited an eighth grader to do something awful to me. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I was an unusually tall third grader with two arms, and I got beat out by kindergartner Clay Wurtzel. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z I think the teachers just didn’t want to scare the brand-new sixth graders into switching schools. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Kids were pointing her out to curious sixth graders who had also heard about the note. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Students are chosen by lottery, with any fourth grader living in the Bronx eligible to apply. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z And then I would find that I had come up right behind the pack of eighth graders, and they were looking back at me, and I slowed down. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I barely reach the gate when a crowd of students rushes over to me, not just seventh graders but upperclass- men, too. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He must’ve been held back several grades, because he was the only sixth grader with acne and the start of a wispy beard on his chin. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “School is the worst torture in the world,” she said, leaning her head against my shoulder as the rest of Fountain Middle’s seventh graders slumped toward their desks. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “On Halloween. A lot of the eighth graders were at Julie’s house watching horror movies.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z I just want to be an ordinary sixth grader, with an ordinary life.... The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z You do not do that to a second grader right before school! The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Coach West has some of the eighth graders taking notes and keeping track of our times. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Perhaps the best explanation we have of this process comes from the sociologist Annette Lareau, who a few years ago conducted a fascinating study of a group of third graders. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She looked like a second grader, but pretty. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It’s a chaotic mess as new sixth graders try to figure out where to go and seventh and eighth graders push each other around. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z He sat on a bench across from the jungle gym, watching a bunch of second graders hang upside down like tree sloths. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z The fourth and fifth graders sat behind them. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When I got back to the dentist’s office, the fourth grader was still in the chair and Marcus was still reading his math book. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z I walked Fern down to where the second graders lined up. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “What happened to my sweet fourth grader from last year?” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z “Part of the credit goes to my dog Tilly,” said Brady, an eighth grader at Alexander Holmes Middle School. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z The bell shrieked, and the lines of students began falling into the building, starting with the kindergartners, then the first graders. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z It’s one thing to hit jumpers over other eighth graders; it’s a whole other thing to score on high school monsters. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z A group of sixth graders races past me on their scooters. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “Because, I don’t know, Julian. I kind of think that if you had been there, we might not have rescued them at all. You probably would have been cheering for the seventh graders!” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Last year they made me sit on the bench with the other sixth graders. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z I was still probably the most happening seventh grader in the place. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z A bunch of big guys, fourth and fifth graders, walked by. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z And every country in the world sent its own team of one thousand eighth graders. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z As third graders we suffered through Mrs. Billups, who could have got the award for worst teacher in the world. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z As the oldest students participating, the fourth graders put on a play of the book for the younger grades as well as for the parent- teacher association. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z And every fifth grader singing, tooting, blaring, and blasting sounds to the ceiling. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z The ninth graders are putting on The Wiz and they got all kinds of junk on stage. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z He did a count at Mass and figured the chapel was about a third full—not bad given that there was no new batch of seventh graders to replace the seniors who’d graduated. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z She takes an empty seat behind the sixth graders. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Right after recess, I found that the eighth graders had filled the boys’ restroom with smoke so thick you couldn’t even smell the disinfectant. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z And most of the other sixth graders never lost part of their pay since they had full-time maids to do the chores instead of a cleaning lady only twice a week. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not sure,” Stella told her, thinking what a strange thing that was for the first grader to draw for the contest. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The two seventh graders behind me are talking, but I’m pretty sure they exchange a glance. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z When we got to the apparatus unit in the middle of November, Coach found out Joseph could do stuff better than any of the other eighth graders. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z On Tuesday, all 7th graders have to miss part of 1st period for an assembly. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z When Devon walked up the steps to get his Life rank the whole auditorium was silent because like Dad said it’s a big event for a seventh grader to get his Life rank so soon. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “To let him know you haven’t been kidnapped. Principals don’t really like it when fifth graders disappear in the middle of the day.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z We were outcasts in a school where the smartest eighth graders were in the 8–1 homeroom, each subsequent drop in number indicating one notch less smarts. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z PV Middle had two dances a year for the seventh and eighth graders, Fall Ball and Spring Fling. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z A third grader drew a coat of arms for her with two dead rats beneath her feet. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I wondered if she would teach able-bodied third graders the same way. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z But, Blagojevich argued, this was a vital intervention in a state where 40 percent of third graders read below their grade level. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z True, eighth graders are pretty negative—I might be that way too next year. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Today is my first day as a seventh grader. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Now we were the eighth graders, and it was our turn to do the same thing. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z At the start of the school year, a bunch of sixth graders confused me for a teacher while they were trying to find the auditorium. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z And just so you know, I could do the rope in under two minutes—which hardly any other sixth grader could do — and so what if I had to use my legs. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z As we make our way through the maze of kids, corridors, and staircases, we come across another little kid stranded in a sea of gigantic, frantic eighth graders. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z They don’t say nothing about the fact that I’m a math whiz, and can outdo ninth graders when it comes to figuring numbers. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z Melissa Hoffman, one of the seventh graders, starts roaming around and comes across a radio, right by the entrance doors. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z That gave Nick and his secret agents plenty of time, and they whispered something into the ear of every fifth grader. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z After the sixth and seventh graders went back to class, we stayed for refreshments. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z The eighth graders have the second floor, and the sixth graders have the first floor. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z And instead of the eighth graders, who’ve moved on to high school, we have a crop of sixth graders who seem as uncertain as I must have been last year. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z The third grader eyed Jack warily and inched his backpack out of the path. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z No wonder she was the only sixth grader who had to bring an extra set of clothes to school. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z When it widened through a stand of old pines, the eighth graders looked behind and saw me, and they strung out to cover the whole path. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “We could be the set of all fourth graders who draw animals on their homework papers.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z The nearly two hundred sixth graders poured into the library, and the teachers shouted out directions: “Blue group sits here.” Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Most fifth and sixth graders try to look cool. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z He stopped only when the stupid herd of eighth graders scattered and Coach Substitute ran in to find out what all the screeching was about. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z He couldn’t show it because I was just a sixth grader and he was an eighth grader, but he knew, all right. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z People said afterward that they had never seen anything like it—that kind of speed from a seventh grader. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Even fifth graders can see over his head. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z Even sixth graders felt they had the right to scowl in my direction. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Mrs. Olinski thought, how unusual to find four sixth graders who listen to one another sympathetically, unselfishly. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Another tradition at Baker & Inglis: every year the eighth graders put on a classical Greek play. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I was shocked to read that the sixth graders are supposed to return to school on Thursday. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Fifth graders down the aisle to the left,” she said. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z The painting might have been done by a second grader, a second grader who was now a grandparent. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z I think what I’m most looking forward to next year, my fellow fifth graders, is building that trust with all of you. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Hazel lay there as elementary school students gathered around her, and it seemed that not even the third graders were dressed as ridiculously as she was. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The fourth grader was in the big chair, spitting into the little white sink. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z When middle school started, they were the set of sixth graders who drew creatures on their homework and did not fight. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z The woman eyed me coldly and said, “All seventh and eighth graders are in portable classrooms. The main building is for sixth graders only.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z For American twelfth graders, the comparable figure was 54 percent. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Ms. Holly shrugs, a frown clouding her face until Julie Zawacki, waving her hand like an overenthusiastic first grader, distracts her. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Fourth graders don’t have to care about stuff like that! The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The majority of sixth graders sided with the thief, concluding that Vermeer’s early and late works were indeed suspicious. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Fifth graders were given a tour every spring. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Giant wiggly printing, like a first grader wrote it. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “So you want to tell me what a sixth grader was doing in the eighth-grade side of the locker room, in an eighth-grade fight?” he said. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z A bunch of seventh and eighth graders in wine-colored uniforms are crowded outside the building, beneath the overhang, trying to stay dry. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z An eighth grader with what looked to me like a full-on beard demanded my math homework from last Tuesday. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z What happened was a massive wedgie contest between the seventh and eighth graders, two pebble fights, and a full-tackle basketball game. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The first graders gathered their things, thing at a time, and stumbled by with their tiny little legs. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The eighth graders were talking about it in the hall all week. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “I wish it was helping their grades, though. Half my seventh graders are flunking this semester.” The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z “Technically, Pluto’s not a planet anymore,” Kojo told the second grader. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Will Bates was Gary Edwards’s teacher in algebra II, which seemed amazing given the fact that Edwards was a Carter Cowboy and Bates was a hard-nosed grader who made no bones about flunking kids. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There is something about sudden darkness in a classroom of twenty-four sixth graders that sets off mischief. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The rest of the eighth graders were already onstage, standing in a big semicircle. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A sixth grader wouldn’t dare step to an eighth grader. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z There were even some fifth graders who were taller. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But they also had interviews with Mrs. Gates, Mr. Ward, the sheriff, and a group of eighth graders who had been in the Portable 19 rescue brigade. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z People still remark about how extraordinary it was to have four sixth graders make it to the finals. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Once the younger students had filed out, Ms. Udell spoke to the fourth graders and the family members in the audience. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z The picture wasn’t much different from what most first graders drew, except the tree the child had drawn had a hidey-hole in it. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Can you imagine what it’s like to walk into the boys’ restroom before the eighth graders have cleared out? The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I never heard of no eighth graders that can dunk. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z In a snit, Curly stomped toward the third and last piece of equipment, a grader. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterward there was a reception for the fifth and sixth graders under a huge white tent in the back of the school. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Melanie’s forehead wrinkled with worry as she watched Elizabeth make her way timidly through the noisily assembling fourth graders, to the teacher’s desk. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “Can you believe she’s going to be a seventh grader soon?” I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It didn’t matter that she was almost as tall as I was, and could have been a seventh grader. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z A month ago, Danny Brooks, the eighth grader with a scoliosis brace, was picked six slots ahead of me for a round of dodgeball. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z At West Jefferson High School, a tenth grader of Iraqi descent had been repeatedly harassed by her history teacher. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “I started a petition after you left yesterday to get you back into school. All the sixth graders signed it.” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z It was like she was so hungry for a normal eighth grader’s experiences that she needed to drink in mine. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z A sixth grader tumbles to the mat and has to join the spectators on the grass. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z He said he can’t remember the two fastest runners ever before both being seventh graders. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Beyond them, the stupid stupid stupid eighth graders stood watching. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z I walked the two kindergartners to the dentist’s office, read my book in the waiting room for a while, and then went back for a second grader and a fourth grader. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z She started to raise her hand to ask for help, but Mrs. Grayson was busy with the third graders, who seemed to be having no trouble at all with their writing projects. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He could see the seventh graders headed for the bus—the huge bossy bosomy girls and the mean, skinny, narrow-eyed boys. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z At my line, I hang back, avoiding Tobias, who is busy picking on some unlucky sixth graders. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I became a different person to the other eighth graders. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He told Judy that a bunch of fifth graders were making trouble and were not obeying teachers anymore, that there was something about a secret code word they were all using. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I beat the sixth, the seventh, and the eighth graders. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Even when they’d finally quieted down, the sixth graders glowered at one another suspiciously. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Even the first graders blew bubbles as big as a full moon. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “This is a class for 7th graders. You all belong here.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I wished, for a second, that all the fifth graders who’d ever laughed behind Mrs. Atanabi’s back could see her now, right this minute, as I was seeing her. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Principal Marcelo comes onstage and says, “Thank you, sixth graders, for the brilliant performance. Well done! Now it’s time for the students to present cards they’ve made to their mothers.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, he tripped on a third grader’s backpack. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z It shows you how immature he is, hanging out with a fifth grader. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z You remember how Mrs. Peterson forbade the use of the word very in book reports because very was fine for fourth graders, but too lazy for fifth graders. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z I've known Tiny Cooper since he was a very large and very gay fifth grader. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z “We were held at Camp Thompson for seven days,” recalled Bobby Thomas, a tenth grader at Hudson High. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z An eighth grader, Julie Hopper, had her legs across Em’s lap. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z The other kid, an extra-short and elegantly dressed tenth grader named Pitkin, recognized defeat and stepped back into the crowd with a gentlemanly bow. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z She likes helping second and third graders build castles. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z The 7th graders eat lunch from 11:10 to 11:35. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z May Belle turned expectantly to Jesse, so he crossed his, too, trying hard not to feel like a fool, crossing his heart to a first grader in the middle of the playground. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z I sell a bunch of candy during the fourth graders’ lunch, which makes me even more hyped about going to the barbershop after school. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z The eighth graders loved me after that They threw all of my clothes in the showers, and I walked home leaving puddles at every step. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z He said he likes to watch the sixth graders he teaches grow up to be teenagers and adults. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Sierra whirled around, but it was just Big Jerome, finally succumbing to the team of ninth graders that Little Jerome had rallied. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z “I can’t imagine they allow seventh graders to come to school made up like that,” she said. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z “If I put the average eighth grader in the same position as Renee, I’m guessing that after the first few attempts, they would have said, ‘I don’t get it. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “You should all remember what it’s like to be a second grader. There’s lots of stuff I don’t know or understand, and I’m fine!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Just about every ninth, tenth, and eleventh grader from Octavia Butler High was running around the backyard or exploring the winding passageways of the house. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Miss Maestas was busy with the first graders and so I did not stay long, but she was happy to see me and I was happy to see her. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z On the way home, I walked with another new ninth grader, Yolanda. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Gino and some other eighth graders were back at the goal kicking shots at the kid in the gray sweatshirt. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The varsity race was next, and I lined up behind the eighth graders. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “But I’m younger and shorter and you’re too big, you big fourth grader.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z I practiced every afternoon after school with the other varsity runners—me, the only seventh grader—while the sun was yellow and warm, and the sky blue and white. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z We murmured as we followed him inside the building, up the steps to the sixth graders’ floor, and into our new classroom. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “The eighth graders loved my name for our mission model. I told them it was our destiny to win the competition, and that this was our child. They thought it was brilliant.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Together, they joined Savanna and Gretchen, a sixth grader, who were waiting for them by the exit. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z They will come on Mother’s Day, and the sixth graders will put on a play in honor of our moth- ers and the foreigners. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As we park, a sixth grader wheels by on a bicycle, a clear plastic trash bag of links over his shoulder. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “Isn’t he that eighth grader who looks like he’s thirty?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z To her four sixth graders puberty was something they could spell and define but had yet to experience. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z We taunted the other seventh graders going on into their classrooms. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I guess it’s obvious that Jimmy was kind of weird, because no normal person would have given forty- minute-a-day jobs to three sixth graders. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z When I took my hand away from my eyes, I saw the dairy truck disappear down the highway and watched the noisy sixth graders run out onto the field for gym. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Alexander tracked the progress of 650 first graders from the Baltimore public school system, looking at how they scored on a widely used math- and reading-skills exam called the California Achievement Test. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The first graders from the wealthiest homes have a 32-point advantage over the first graders from the poorest homes — and by the way, first graders from poor homes in Baltimore are really poor. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It is a complicated thing that a little kid, or even a fifth grader, can’t understand, that we are always choosing situations that hurt us. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z They grow up to be eighth graders who remind me of sumo wrestlers, but we know to keep out of their way. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z The way into the eighth-grade side of the locker room was blocked by stupid eighth graders standing like cows at a gate they can’t get through. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Unlike many of the others, though, our first grader was wise enough to sense how premature it all seemed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “Is your last name Muhammad?” she asked, her eyes fixed on me, the only fourth grader in the classroom wearing a hijab, who happened to be sitting in the front row. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z There were five of us in the race: me, Webb, two other seventh graders, and a sixth grader. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Paul Blofis, my mom’s boyfriend, was standing out front, greeting future ninth graders as they came up the steps. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z That didn’t seem like the sort of thing a normal seventh grader would do. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z But then I found out there was a fourth grader named John who was also joining the band in the spring semester, so I knew I wouldn’t be the only new kid. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z It was strange to be in the very same room with first graders and sixth graders and all the graders between. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Maybe the coach saw a few eighth graders pounding the younger kids like usuaL Maybe the other kids saw Matt Sloans thugs getting ready, to toss Molotov cocktails around. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z “It’s stagecraft—we do all the school shows. We make the sets, do the sound, the lighting. It’s really cool. This is my second year. You should join. We need seventh graders.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z The first graders had the story read to them by their teachers, and sometime seven the kindergartners participated. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z She gathered her things with the precision and care of a first grader, but it did not matter. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z And it wasn’t like there would be some crime ring going around kidnapping kids from any family who had a second grader, a fourth grader, and a sixth grader. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The sixth and seventh graders hugged and giggled, reunited after months apart. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The newspaper ran a letter from Mrs. Gates to the parents of all seventh and eighth graders. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A few minutes later, we turn into a neighborhood where some kids who definitely look like eighth graders get on and go straight to the back of the bus. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z One seventh grader took off his baseball hat in reverence. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z She had to be in sixth grade, but she had the body of a third grader and the face of a drunken grandmother. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z He was the best of the fourth graders, almost as fast as Fulcher. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Every parent of every new fifth grader got a letter from her. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z At lunch recess, Doug Swieteck’s brother lurched across the field, sixth graders scurrying out of his way as if he was a southwest wind about to blister them all over. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z No. Now, are my eighth graders my most rambunctious group? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m the biggest, tallest seventh grader at Merrimack Middle School. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Small kids were perched on tabletops because there weren't enough chairs, and the Epiphany sixth graders stood like caryatids leaning against three of the four walls of the room. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z And for Mrs. Olinski that was not until Bowl Day was over and so was the work of her four sixth graders. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z He treated us with complete seriousness, as if we eighth graders, during fifth period, might settle something scholars had been arguing about for centuries. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z As sixth graders, we had only been allowed to do sixth-grade activities. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Who knew a second grader could understand what being humiliated feels like. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z All the eighth graders get decked out for this event. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Next thing I know she was now explaining to the doctor that she was one of the strongest first graders he'd ever seen. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z A few nearby third graders turned their heads in the direction of George’s shout. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Two years before Margaret Draper retired, the district reorganized its school system and sent sixth graders to middle school instead of elementary. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z One thing was clear to the sixth graders: In spite of their discussions earlier in the year with Ms. Hussey, the letter as a form of communication was very much alive. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Grandpa pulls up behind a road grader, and the five of us get out and approach the garage. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Even though I stayed at the back of the pack of eighth graders. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Older kids—fourth and fifth graders—are in line as women with hairnets pile their trays with spaghetti, a fruit cup, and a cookie. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z For Japanese twelfth graders, the answer was 92 percent. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The day before the last day of school, Mr. Tushman called me into his office to tell me they had found out the names of the seventh graders from the nature retreat. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z There was a smattering of applause as a seventh grader, flushed with triumph, reclaimed his plane, and we were under way 4gain. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z Grace, another seventh grader, was, without a doubt, the smartest student in the whole school. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The halls are filled with seventh graders wearing white coats, army fatigues, dashikis, and a kimono. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Even if a fifth grader started out the period with a ball, it was sure to be in the hands of a sixth or seventh grader before the hour was half over. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Even Rukia Marshall looked like a sixth grader, and she wore a cloth on her head. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Fifth graders look like scared little mice at the beginning of the school year. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Half an hour later, a group of serious fifth graders had a meeting in Nick’s play room. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Twig whispered to me, “What kind of bus driver lets three seventh graders onto a bus in the middle of the night by themselves?” The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I was also about to start middle school, where I would be a lowly sixth grader. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “Making your third grader go for a spray tan instead of playing in the park just so Mom can outsource her failed dreams to her kid? So wrong.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z And one time when she was only a third grader, Chess had seen her wade into a pile of sixth graders who were fighting, and she’d screamed, “Don’t hit the little guy!” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Then we’d sneak into the parking lot and hide behind the teachers’ cars all the way to the street, just like the eighth graders do. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z “Miss Garcia was a student, a fifth grader. Her mother, all the parents came to pick up their kids.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z That day, I knelt with a bunch of fifth graders as we carefully put seedlings into the ground, patting the dirt into place around the fragile stalks. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Every year in the spring, the fifth graders of Beecher Prep go away for three days and two nights to a place called the Broarwood Nature Reserve in Pennsylvania. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Forty fifth graders—minus me—stand, bow, and bang-jump off the risers. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z By the time I reached the. first bend out of the trees, I was just behind the clump of eighth graders from Camillo Junior High. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z She really was amazingly tiny for a fourth grader. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know the sixth graders very well—they have different recess times. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z I spoke across a vast gym floor to six hundred and fifty sixth, seventh, and eighth graders arrayed in bleachers before me. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Then every seventh and eighth grader started to pour out of those portables, some still calm, some panicking. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “But do I look like a regular eighth grader?” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z For the first twelve years of the Alexandriaville seventh graders’ lives, school media centers were the only libraries they had ever known. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z “If I went to your school,” she asks me, “would I be the smallest fourth grader?” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Jack and I walked right behind a couple of sixth graders into the building, and then followed them to the auditorium. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Seventh graders sit in the middle or as close to the back as the eighth graders will allow. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Even first graders on the first day of school don't do that. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z She took down the aluminum-foil menorah the first graders had put on her door, and she wouldn’t let any of Charles’s signs into the room. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z They seem like they might be seventh graders, too. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Seven rows back, Dana Matherson was tormenting a sixth grader named Louis. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Let me tell you, when you’re in the seventh grade, it isn’t healthy to run at the front of a pack of eighth graders. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z She’d clearly been prepared to swat a naughty boy, and now looked at the first grader in astonishment. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It was what eighth graders whose career goal was the state penitentiary did. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z As 7th graders, you will work in teams of 3 or 4 students to identify a need in your community and a solution. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z I am not as disturbed by the words as by the fact that the handwriting looks like a third grader’s. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z An eighth grader in a football jersey lurches against my side, and I mumble an apology a split second after he’s gone. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The first graders cut out the flames for each of the nine candles, and together they put a menorah on every classroom door. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The eighth graders had picked this computer genius, Luke Simard, and got him elected president just so they could make fun of him. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z I don’t want to, but it’s so much easier than drawing attention to myself by trying to go against the swarm of eighth graders headed in one direction. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z “I don’t get why the school party is for seventh graders only. It should be seventh and eighth together.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Nervousness is bubbling up inside me like the can of Sprite an eighth grader shook at lunch and tried to offer everyone. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z At PacificVista Middle, the sixth graders had a separate building and a different lunch period, so we never had to run into Conner and the Morons last year. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Let me tell you, the eighth graders were not happy. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Emily rounded a corner, passing the papier-mache witch hats decorated by sixth graders that lined the windows of the library. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z It’s like Beatriz cast a spell on everybody to not talk to Stephanie for the rest of the day, even the sixth graders. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Worst of all, I’d miss the eighth grade dance, which all the seventh graders were already gearing up for. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z And from then on, they were the set of all fourth graders who drew creatures on their homework. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z I was as big as most second graders, too. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “Because you are unique and wonderful and lots more interesting than ordinary fifth graders, I guess,” she says. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z At 2 P.M., the entire school shuffled into the auditorium, where each of us eighth graders was awarded a certificate and a discount coupon to Kings Dominion, an amusement park down in Virginia. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Later in life I learned that the way many governors projected the numbers of beds they’d need for prison facilities was by examining the reading scores of third graders. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “Here are some of the projects that 7th graders—students the same as you—have tackled over the past few years.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Then you can stay outside and have recess with the kindergarten through second graders. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Andrew says some eighth graders are taking bets on when the famous couple will get back together. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “This Elizabeth is probably just like any other blabbermouth fourth grader.” The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z After what had almost happened, facing a bunch of snotty fifth graders will be easy. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z And in front of a whole lot of eighth graders. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The crowd—every sixth, seventh, and eighth grader at Chumley Prep—settles down. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z Sixth graders head straight to the cafeteria and seventh and eighth graders are supposed to line up in the gym before first period. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z At Bethune, the colored high school he went to, all the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth graders—about twenty of them—were housed in the same little room near the entrance. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Did the librarian really think seventh graders weren’t toilet trained? Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z I have to admit, John had guts talking back to a sixth grader like that. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z He’d heard about blood pooled on the floors of classrooms and the bodies of twenty first graders and six educators torn apart by a semiautomatic rifle. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Some ninth graders sat behind me, but when the Colonel walked up with Lara a moment later, he politely told them, “Thanks for holding our seats,” and ushered them away. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Even though she was a seventh grader, a year behind us, she was a neat kid. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Then he looked at the rest of the eighth graders, and all the seventh and sixth graders, too. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Well, sixth graders are the opposite of that. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Sixth graders had stopped asking "Now what?" and had started asking "So what?" The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Petey, a sixth grader, blushes red, drops his foil, and leaves the gym. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “Normal schools do. Everybody always waits for the eighth-grade president to do everything. But our eighth graders are lazy. No offense.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z As sixth graders who were taking the test in the eighth month of the academic year, these students needed to achieve an average score of 6.8 to be considered up to national standards. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Having the sub makes it easy for me to get a pass and sneak to the lunchroom when the fourth graders are in there. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Through no fault of their own, those second graders had lost a year of learning. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z A couple of the seventh graders began to sniffle, as though they’d suddenly realized something bad had happened. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “That eighth grader. His name is Patrick. Very cute, actually. And he plays soccer.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Twenty fifth graders in the other class plus twenty-one in Mr. Fabian's equals forty-one. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z I hug him, feeling like a “baby brother” again instead of a seventh grader. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z They had never seen a tenth- grader so bold. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z He looks more like a baseball-basketball guy to me, but he coached the soccer team last season, and he knows most of the seventh and eighth graders. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Not even thirteen stitches, enough that I could have mumbled to my dad: “You shoulda seen the other sixth grader.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The kids in there were mostly fifth graders too. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z There’s a group of boys—seventh graders—who tease Ray, calling him “Shrimp.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z They tested me and told me to go sit with the third graders. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z On the crosstown bus, he taught a second grader how to memorize the order of the planets in the solar system. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Then he says that he saw me picking on a sixth grader today and decided to intervene. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z Bridge and Sherm made sure they weren’t assigned to break down the last “official” act, which was a barbershop quartet of eighth graders. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Schoolchildren, from first graders to high school seniors, stood up straight and tall in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church sanctuary and offered themselves as “living sacrifices”3 to the cause of freedom and fairness. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z A couple of sixth graders rushed up to support Cap on the other side. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z The fourth graders cut menorahs from cardboard and covered them with glittering aluminum foil. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Had he been able to stand, he’d have been no more than five feet tall, and he’d probably have fit into a sixth grader’s jeans. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She reads me the article: ‘“Spaulding Street Elementary’s talented academic team of fifth and sixth graders won the local Whiz Kids quiz competition last night by a score of eighty-six to eighty-five. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z That big eighth grader held his fist out, and I put mine down on top of it. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Send a seventh grader to do a god’s job, why don’t you. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Several older boys—sixth graders—leap to their feet. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z The first graders burst out laughing, and I hoped the gag would be as successful with all the classes. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z He took on three first graders during a snowball fight because one of them had thrown a piece of ice. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z I imagine a seventh grader coming in here for the same reason I did, and seeing that she has some company. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z As if they had not just been beaten up by a pair of seventh graders in front of the entire football team and five hundred other people. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Andrew Yee, an eighth grader whose mother works with Dad at the dinosaur dig, takes my arm and starts leading me out of the atrium. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z If such horrors can happen to classrooms of kindergartners, little first graders with little pink rubber boots and sweet butterfly backpacks, there is no hope. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He was even bigger up close—at least a seventh grader. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z Three sixth graders asked for my autograph on a baseball, which I gave them. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The noise was like a wave that kept getting bigger: two hundred seventh graders, all looking for someplace they belonged. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z The last table was surrounded by a handful of seventh graders and a few older kids in black T-shirts. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z It would have been better if it had turned out to be a stranger—a sixth or eighth grader I didn’t see in homeroom every day. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z They’re moving all the snowplows and road graders outside to make room for our new production. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z To the racket Of chicharron Being devoured By adult teeth In a fourth grader’s head. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z For this assembly, the seventh graders, most of whom were twelve years old, were told to sit in the front rows,close to the stage. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z I was a fifth grader then; I was curious. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “The eighth graders have the spring dance,” Bridge said. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z She must have come straight from varsity cheering practice — she was one of only three eighth graders who got to practice with the high school squad — because she was wearing her uniform. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Gates said, “Seventh graders, please do not leave without a split-shift schedule.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The door pulled open and Terryl’s daughter, a sixth grader, chilly from waiting outside for a few minutes, climbed inside. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The principal gave the names of the three eighth graders; then he said, “And the anchor leg was run by Penn Webb, who brought the team from last place to second.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Let me tell you, it’s a-pretty hard thing to be a seventh grader with new death threats hanging over you just about every day. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z All the sixth graders have to sit in the front of the bus, while all the eighth graders lord it over everyone else in the back. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I swear, adults act worse than sixth graders sometimes. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Indeed, Janice Avery, who among all the seventh graders was the one person who devoted her entire life to scaring the wits out of anyone smaller than she, was right behind him. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Mrs. Olinski's sixth graders were David versus the eighth grade Goliath, and the kids with the slingshots knew how to use them. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The boys’ restroom was filled with eighth graders. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z After school Leslie got on the bus before he did and went straight to the corner of the long backseat—right to the seventh graders’ seat. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Twenty fast-paced short chapters tell the story of a mischievous fourth grader named Iggy Frangi, who gets into trouble for three incidents. Getting 21st-Century Kids to Read More Books 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z A third grader should be able to make a profit from a casino. Review: ‘The Confidence Man’ Finds Trump’s Business Image Was Made for TV 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z Gile is a former Cabot cheese grader who tasted up to 200 cheese samples a day. 8 questions about cheese and cheesemaking, answered by an expert 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z She attended the University of California, Los Angeles, and, after graduating with a degree in English literature, taught second graders in a public school in Torrance, Calif., for four years. Maralin Niska, Lyric Soprano at New York City Opera Who Won Hearts, Dies at 89 2016-07-13T04:00:00Z The film follows Kosuke and Natsume, sixth graders and longtime friends who were raised together in the same apartment complex, and whose relationship has been tense ever since Kosuke’s grandfather died. ‘Drifting Home’ Review: A Sinking Development 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z When I first made the dish, I was the ripe age of 13 years old, and I assure you that I was the only 7th grader who would rush home to start cooking. Beyond bolognese: A primer to 6 delectable, lesser-known pasta sauces that deserve some love 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z I was unwinding inside of my magical ark after a long day as an 8th grader. They arrested me for playing basketball: A personal argument in favor of defunding the police 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z He kisses her like a third grader trying out the act for the first time in a game of spin the bottle. The best takeaway from this season of "Love Is Blind"? Act like Milton 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z After he is killed in a car accident, fifth grader Fiona notices that the younger Finn has become withdrawn and angry. Great New Children’s Books About Animals 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Telgemeier is not, in a book aimed at third to eighth graders, out to solve the mystery of this rise or limn its sociological roots. More and More Children Are Feeling Anxious. This Graphic Novelist Is Trying to Help. 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z But the graduating eighth graders — what a different picture. Motherlode Blog: L.G.B.T. Survey: The Age I First Felt Different 2013-06-13T23:04:39Z It became the perfect hook for ninth graders in a study of Shakespeare that would conclude in 12th grade with "Macbeth." Will high school "classics" be replaced? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z It strokes a reassuring possibility that we can all remain sixth graders. Motivators of 2010: Technology and Greed 2010-12-17T19:43:28Z Third or fourth graders, already deep into writing, may appreciate this book most. Word Up! Three Picture Books and a Graphic Novel Celebrate the Power and Joy of Language 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z Most of “Blended” has the look and pacing of a three-camera sitcom filmed by a bunch of eighth graders and conceived by their less bright classmates. Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore in ‘Blended’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z To say that religious publisher Thomas Nelson is pleased with seventh grader Colton Burpo would be to slightly understate the matter. Galley Girl: A JFK Resurgance and a Year in Heaven 2011-11-21T09:55:55Z Jordan was remembered as a standout 5th grader at nearby Pioneer Elementary School. Girl dies after jumping into Bolingbrook pond 2012-05-16T10:52:00Z And we would go into public schools and facilitate reading workshops, literacy workshops for fourth to sixth graders who couldn't read, couldn't read a word, but they were in fourth, fifth, sixth grade. Wayétu Moore on writing the immortal heroine of "She Would Be King": "She grew as I grew" 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z One afternoon after Ms. Myracle picked up Jamie at school, he recounted how a seventh grader was smoking pot on school grounds and offering it around. Lauren Myracle, Calling It As She Sees It 2012-12-28T20:19:26Z It sounds extremely sophisticated for a book aimed at fourth graders and up — kindness, brilliant color and scraps of poetry as salvation — and that’s the key to DiCamillo’s genius. Kate DiCamillo’s New Novel May Be Her Finest Yet 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z The state trooper got in touch with the fourth grader's mom, Elveria Griffin, to coordinate the sweet surprise, which was also caught on camera. Delaware State Trooper surprises boy, 9, with new basketball sneakers after striking up friendship on court 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z At first, I mourned my career, which I gave up to facilitate the purgatory of Zoom “school” for my first grader. ‘Why Was It So Hard?’: How the Pandemic Changed Our Children 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z What she witnessed was a priest molesting an altar boy, a terrified sixth grader. Stabbed in the Convent, Murdered in the Yard 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z On Dec. 16, Nezhukumatathil was helping her fifth grader practice for a spelling bee when she learned that the book was No. 5 on the hardcover nonfiction list. Aimee Nezhukumatathil Wants You to Get Some Fresh Air 2020-12-24T05:00:00Z Fellow fourth graders will love Iggy for his honesty and humor. Getting 21st-Century Kids to Read More Books 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z A more down-to-earth tale, “The Legendary Lawrence Cobbler,” by the young adult novelist Julian Winters, follows Jevon Lawrence, a seventh grader who wants to be a chef and is competing in his school’s baking contest. An Homage to Black Boyhood From the Creator of Tristan Strong 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z It then switches to a recording of the 911 call on the morning in December 2012 when 20 first graders and six educators were shot dead by a disturbed young man. 'Newtown' paints a portrait of communal grief, recovery 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Our exchange felt like a conversation between two third graders in the playground. My Choice Isn’t Marriage or Loneliness 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z By the same token, a few months ago I told another parent that I didn’t think we should allow our sons to go to parties with 10th graders. Motherlode Blog: Negotiating My 13-Year-Old's Social Life 2012-01-04T17:06:21Z Lafayette talks tough, but when someone actually likes him, he turns into a blushing sixth grader who could take lessons in self-assurance from Hoyt. "True Blood" recap: Love is in the air 2010-07-19T13:20:00Z But as sad as it was, it was in many ways the ideal playground for ninth graders with preoccupied families and fake IDs. Garth Risk Hallberg’s ‘City on Fire’ 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Except you can’t fully convey that to a first grader, so I added that she’d be able to shout as loud as she wanted in the desert. In California Desert, Father and Daughter Find the Sublime 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Three Excedrin, two cups of coffee and one long shower erased the headache – giving me enough energy to address a group of eighth graders. My first week in Donald Trump’s America: There’s work to be done, but we gon’ be alright 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Especially if you are a giggly second grader, in which case this show, for children 7 and up, is aimed straight at you. Review: ‘Mad Libs Live!,’ a Musical With a Few Missing Pieces 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z For the Double Dutch Summer Classic, the national competition overseen by the National Double Dutch League, teams will include competitors as young as fourth graders. The Art and Artistry of Double Dutch 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z The 64 fifth graders who make up the chorus at New York's Public School 22 in Staten Island arrived at the Kodak Theatre Friday to rehearse their performance of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow." Stars rock the Kodak at Oscar's music rehearsals 2011-02-26T06:48:08Z Twenty years ago, the first and second graders averaged about 8 minutes a day on homework. Motherlode Blog: The Destructive "Too Much Homework" Myth 2012-03-06T19:00:47Z Answer: Everything, apparently if said fourth graders are attempting to rip apart the state’s very fabric by proposing that the official raptor be changed to the Red-Tailed Hawk. John Oliver cannot believe his eyes: Adorable 4th graders’ school project gets brutally shot down by lawmakers 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z But the producers behind "Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer" decided to create an entirely original adventure for the mischievous third grader's big screen debut. "Judy Moody" children's books find new life on film 2011-06-08T05:14:54Z He challenged Geisel to write a primer that emerging or reluctant readers would actually enjoy, pleading, “Write me a story that first graders can’t put down!” How Dr. Seuss Changed Education in America 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z The latest copy to be sold was given a nine out of 10 rating for its condition and has white pages, according to independent comic book grader Certified Guaranty Company. First Superman comic sells for $3.2m 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z I used to teach Spanish-speaking immigrant youths in a far-more-than-one-room schoolhouse in the Bronx, so was especially tickled by a story from Paul K. Ness, whose struggles to teach his Finnish-speaking first graders sounded familiar. Frugal Traveler: From Fashion to Crashing at County Fairs 2013-08-27T19:12:05Z Psychologist Carol Dweck, for instance, found that fifth graders praised for being “smart” became less confident, while those told they were “hard workers” became more confident and performed better. Book Excerpt: Strings Attached: One Tough Teacher and the Gift of Great Expectations 2013-10-01T16:54:05Z Burnham’s plan led to the 1911 textbook that “No Small Plans” emulates: “Wacker’s Manual,” which Chicago Public School eighth graders read for nearly thirty years. Weaving architecture, history and social justice together, Chicago is imagined anew in “No Small Plans” 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Another mom complained her seventh grader got decent marks on a writing assignment rife with spelling and grammatical errors. Motherlode Blog: I Know My Son Isn't Doing His Homework. Why Doesn't HIs Report Card Show It? 2013-04-30T16:23:01Z The dismissal bell rings at Latimer Middle School and sixth graders spring from their classrooms. In Jason Reynolds’s Powerful New Book, Stories Stitch Together a Neighborhood 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z In past showcases, performers have revealed their secrets to selling jingles to small businesses, illustrated exactly what’s different about blonds and debated whether dinosaurs were smarter than a fifth grader. 6 Comedy Shows to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z “And I sort of had this feeling, even as a third grader, which is bizarre, that something in my future was there for me, you know?” Evan McMullin Is Trying to Save Democracy 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z A few weeks ago she went to the Stumbo elementary school to talk about diabetes to the eighth graders. Diabetes in Appalachia: “Just give me a pill” 2012-08-08T11:45:00Z Imagine squares of dough folded into tubes by a lazy second grader then flattened. An Ancient Corner of Italy Finds the World on Its Doorstep 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z I asked why my seventh graders wouldn’t be reading novels and were told to use five adjectives in one sentence. My public school beat-down 2012-08-10T23:30:00Z The next morning, third graders at Girls Prep leapt and twirled in their school uniforms to the same Tchaikovsky tunes. The Youngest (and Liveliest) ‘Nutcracker’ Audience of the Season 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Next school year, fourth graders in the United States and their families will be entitled to free admission to America’s national parks, federal lands and waters. Free Passes to Parks for Fourth Graders 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z A sixth grader, Sammy Jin, explained the phenomenon later in an interview: “I guess I like fast music. It makes me concentrate more.” The New Wizard Teaching at the Hogwarts for Choir 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Let’s make it happier!" only got him to the makeout stage; he admitted: "We were ... eighth graders. Courteney Cox's messy, relatable estrangement 2011-04-14T19:30:00Z I don’t know that this isn’t the norm, that around the country most ninth graders are in high school already. I'm not like them, but I can pretend (Obviously, this is an essay about Kurt Cobain and Nirvana) 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Red Barber, who early in life planned to be a college professor, was a tough grader. How Vin Scully scored his Dodgers gig at 22 years old 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z The nation’s largest physicians group agreed to support legislation that would require classes in causes, consequences and prevention of obesity for first through 12th graders. AMA wants obesity education 2012-06-21T13:46:00Z He struck up a conversation with a sixth grader from Harlem, and asked him what he liked best about the park. Tony Horwitz, a Historian Who Reckoned Fearlessly with the Legacy of the Civil War 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z “I am especially concerned about the part that sixth graders are too immature to be with seventh and eight graders.” Diamonds and Campaign Trails in Houston 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z It’s a daunting challenge for the third grader of the title. Girls of a Certain Age Challenge Hollywood 2011-06-03T16:57:32Z This was politics at work at the New-York Historical Society’s democracy program, with 21 sixth graders from Middle School 244 in the Bronx. At This Museum Sixth Graders Learn Lessons in Democracy 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Whenever unlikely lovers pair up, onlookers are rarely without an opinion or the kinds of noises you would expect from third graders shown videos of childbirth. Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall? The Fascination of Odd Couples 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z It’s no crime to let your inner seventh grader loose. Beach Books: New Books by Tommy James, Dave Barry and John Grisham 2010-05-27T22:12:00Z Seven seventh graders arrived at the theater, excited. I Took 7th Graders to See ‘Black Panther.’ Here’s What They Said. 2018-02-18T05:00:00Z All sixth graders were to report to school Monday with five-pound bags of flour dressed up as dolls, and carry them everywhere for the week. Modern Love: A 5-Pound Sack of Maternal Wisdom 2010-10-22T18:56:00Z Like the scribbles on a ninth grader’s spiral notebook, it is hand drawn, Ms. Koenig’s curly feminine printing in speech bubbles and checklists, flow charts and pictograms. At Home With Emma Koenig: Emma Koenig’s So-Called Redacted Life 2012-07-25T23:06:08Z Taylor LaRoue, 26, decided to use her ninth graders’ excitement about the Conspiracy collection as a classroom “incentive.” Palettes Are What Every Teen Wants for the Holidays 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Autesserre’s decidedly unglamorous approach to ending violence is intuitive enough for a third grader to grasp. How to Help Endangered and Impoverished Peoples 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Ms. L’Engle is one reason why I didn’t hesitate to let a young fourth grader work his way through the complexities of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” and why I hope J.K. Motherlode Blog: 'A Wrinkle in Time' Turns 50 2012-02-01T00:05:36Z The long-running “South Park” series is one of cable channel Comedy Central’s biggest and most controversial hits, built around the misadventures of four foul-mouthed fourth graders. 'South Park' creators offer mocking 'apology' to China over episode 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Each family should pick a reasonable amount of homework time, perhaps 10 minutes for every grade — so second graders do 20 minutes a day and 12th graders do 120 minutes. Letting families decide homework amount Mr. Colfer transformed from a skinny sixth grader into a pudgy seventh grader whose voice hadn’t dropped. The Many Hats of Chris Colfer 2012-12-21T21:10:46Z For example, third graders are to “develop an understanding of fractions as numbers.” Motherlode Blog: A Lesson on the Common Core 2014-02-27T15:23:13Z Yes, a fifth grader may be able to do seventh-grade math. Motherlode Blog: Against Accelerating the Gifted Child 2012-10-14T12:00:25Z In the story, Percy Jackson, a bright sixth grader, grows frustrated after being expelled from the latest school he’s attending. ‘The Lightning Thief,’ From Theaterworks, at Lucille Lortel 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z With the exception of this man, who seemed to have about a second grader’s comprehension of my native language, I had only heard them speak briefly in Czech, which I had no hope of deciphering. My Prague nightmare: I had never even attempted to kill anyone — why was I under arrest in this foreign city? 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z As for fourth graders, their self-esteem is actually correcting to normative levels. Motherlode Blog: It’s Not a ‘Problem.’ It’s Called Being a Child. 2013-08-25T12:43:08Z Can a ninth grader be bribed to get good grades? Freakonomics: The Dismal Science Brightens Up on Screen 2010-10-02T06:30:00Z “And if I was worried, what were those first and second graders thinking?” Tested by Tragedy, Two Politicians Review Their Records — Mistakes Included 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z My son Leo, a fifth grader, and I were allowed to come and watch the production, which is not so much a play as it is an improvisational role-playing game, Dungeons & Dragons. Exit the Dungeon Master. Tonys Rehearsal Is Calling. 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z Second graders at Public School 317 in Rockaway Beach, Queens, for example, investigated “How can we engage with our landscape?” by making mixed-media collages with rocks, twigs, shells and other local objects. Spare Times for Children for May 23-29 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z “Our third graders are scheduled for field testing in June,” she wrote. Testing Companies Shouldn't Use Students to Refine Their Products 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z As revealed in the film, this high-strung showoff who often behaves like a fourth grader on the verge of a tantrum is a classic example of talent fueled by anger. | 'Conan O?Brien Can?t Stop': One Ticked-Off Comic, Venting to the Faithful 2011-06-23T21:33:28Z Percy isn’t a typical sixth grader: He happens to be a son of the Greek god Poseidon, with some unusual powers that such a status confers. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z In the survey of 373 second graders, several distinct behaviors emerged. Motherlode Blog: Ending Bullying by 'Fixing' the Victims? 2011-11-04T15:50:49Z “Wow, I’m just wide enough,” she said, pleased, and suddenly there it was: behind her professional facade, a regular eighth grader. 3 Young People to Watch in Theater This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, he is a ninth grader at a private school in Southern California. Mandla Morris, Son of Stevie Wonder, Pursues Music and Fashion 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Miranda is now an 11-year-old fifth grader whose team, Vaulting Visions, is a national champion in the American Vaulting Association’s Copper Division for beginning canters. Equestrian Vaulting Gains Fans in the Northeast 2010-03-25T21:44:00Z For older children, how do you make it clear that crude words in the middle school hallway from a fellow eighth grader are an entirely different matter than the same comment from an English teacher? Motherlode Blog: Can You Trust Your Child's Coach? 2011-11-09T11:09:09Z “I knew that he was this seventh grader who did this newsletter thing and you didn’t quite know what to expect. But I found him to be personable, funny and deeply intelligent.” Homework? First I Need to Get to the Bottom of This Comey Story 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z They were both first graders and Paul leveled the future senator within seconds. Tested by Tragedy, Two Politicians Review Their Records — Mistakes Included 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z In another, fifth graders shooting turkeys with prop muskets sing a song with the lyric “One little Indian left all alone/He went out and hanged himself and then there were none.” Review: In ‘The Thanksgiving Play,’ Who Gets to Tell the Story? 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Sebastian Ortiz, 7, a first grader now making his Broadway debut in “A Christmas Carol,” scrunched up his face as he paused to think about what it means to be playing Tiny Tim onstage. Rethinking Tiny Tim: Should a Disabled Actor Play the Role? 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z “I had heard of him when he was assigned to me as his adviser, when he entered as an eighth grader last year,” said Mark Smith, a history teacher. Homework? First I Need to Get to the Bottom of This Comey Story 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z In 2014, the Iron County School District in Utah formally adopted the Erik’s Cause prevention training program in its health classes for 5th, 7th and 10th graders. Her son died from a ‘choking game.’ Now she’s determined to save other kids’ lives. 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Martin Moone, Irish seventh grader: “Do you see what I see?” Critic’s Notebook: Second Season of ‘Moone Boy’ to Begin on Hulu 2014-04-23T20:29:27Z “Jazzy told me her classmates are recognizing her in school,” Mr. De Hoyos said, adding that she was recently invited to sit with the 7th and 8th graders at lunch. She Interviews Celebrities Before School. And She’s Only 11. 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z As I was growing up, by the close of each school year, he’d won the adoration of a room full of second graders, and usually the deep gratitude of more than a few parents. Motherlode: Missing Dad 2011-06-15T15:47:38Z Mac, a sixth grader, lives in a small Pennsylvania town where, some say, everything is perfect. Schools of Thought Control 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z In the star-making Disney Channel switcheroo Hannah Montana, Miley Cyrus played a teenage girl who is able to metamorphose from regular eighth grader to pop icon, simply by donning a streaked blonde wig. 'It's ghost slavery': the troubling world of pop holograms 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z At the time, Castillo was an 11th grader living in a Latino neighborhood where just getting through high school was something of an accomplishment. To get into college, play a game or two 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Hello, I’m an eighth grader, I will be here for high school, and I’d like to start a debate team. Titans in Party Dresses 2010-12-23T23:42:46Z But after making his own baggy pants, the enterprising 10th grader crafted a taffeta prom gown for a friend who paid him $300. Byron Lars Is Still Here 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z Now, as a fifth grader, she’s under pressure to win again. Young, Gifted and Searching for a Sense of Self 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z My oldest, Ben, an eighth grader at the time, had gone barreling off the trail, hitting a tree. Generation B: It?s All Downhill From Here 2010-03-25T23:02:00Z Now, my first grader called them boobalies, and history is written by the victors. Motherlode Blog: Breastfeeding and Sex: Is Latching On a Turn-Off? 2012-07-15T11:00:53Z It’s the sixth grader Silas Wade’s turn to teach his classmates about a famous inventor. Pride at the Plate for a Little League All-Star 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, a division of Penguin Young Readers will work on a Rapinoe book for middle graders. Score! Megan Rapinoe book to be published next year 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z Back in the winter 2013, Welch, then a 7 year-old second grader at Park Elementary School in Baltimore, was suspended for two days after allegedly chewing his breakfast pastry into the shape of a gun. Why is a pastry on a kid’s permanent record? 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z As an experiment, 51 sixth graders from a public school in Southern California were sent to outdoor education camp, spending five whole days completely deprived of TV, phone and Internet. Why Access to Screens is Lowering Kid's Social Skills 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z That truth, as this pandemic novel written for middle graders makes clear, extends to all of us. What Happened When Kelly Yang Moved ‘Back Where She Came From’ 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Poor guys – if you know anything about Andean cuisine, you know that Ms. López is not raising them to become class pets for second graders. A Fortress in the Clouds, a Guinea Pig in the Pan 2010-07-14T03:00:00Z Meanwhile, my daughter and I debated what was appropriate school-wear for a 10th grader. Motherlode Blog: Children Are Not Our Friends (Until They Are) 2013-01-22T20:35:29Z From there, Radnor’s eighth to 12th graders viewed an explanatory PowerPoint in homeroom of the eight names and voted online for their top four. Anatomy of a Mascot 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z But, as a sixth grader, he took the advice of a friend in class, who leaned over and suggested he try abstract art. Nights at the Museum: Good for Cultivating an Art Habit and Romance 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z One book is still contested—the most banal of the lot—precisely because it contains descriptions of sex that parents feel are unsuitable for tenth graders. What Kind of Town Bans Books? 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Ms. McKissack earned a master’s degree at Webster University in Missouri while teaching English to eighth graders and writing to college students. Patricia McKissack, Prolific Author Who Championed Black Heroes, Dies at 72 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z The next week, after the sixth and final session of the workshop, the third graders would perform movement they learned in the workshop for their schoolmates and family members. The Youngest (and Liveliest) ‘Nutcracker’ Audience of the Season 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z Third, fourth and fifth graders at Public School 676 in Red Hook, Brooklyn, explored questions of identity with “A Map of Me,” self-portraits incorporating sketches and color washes on top of actual maps. Spare Times for Children for May 23-29 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z “He was a Nazi, but a reasonable one,” an erstwhile eighth grader tells Bilger. A Grandson Investigates the ‘Reasonable’ Nazi in the Family 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z In “A Map of the Simplified World,” Ji-won, a friendless Korean third grader in New York City, finds companionship in a young girl of Indian descent. Stories Spanning Countries and Generations, by Jo Lloyd, Yoon Choi and Hilma Wolitzer 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Jimmy Kimmel, on the other hand, thinks that the president sounds like a fourth grader giving a book report. Jimmy Kimmel finds out if schoolchildren can read a Trump speech better than the president 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Pete doesn’t quite learn how to be a pet, but he does teach Jimmy Biddle, a second grader, how to take life less seriously. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z The immigrant parents of one second grader tell Pondiscio they relented after Success reported them to child welfare authorities for alleged child neglect. The Secret to Success Academy’s Top-Notch Test Scores 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z As a fourth grader living in Pennsylvania, she and her classmates will soon learn about their changing bodies and puberty through their public school. Motherlode Blog: I Got Pregnant at 14. Ask Me About Plan B. 2013-06-11T18:56:10Z “That eighth grader in me just comes out.” The New Club Kids 2010-11-19T23:56:00Z The hourlong show deals with how these second graders — the quiet, contemplative Ivy and the boisterous, extroverted Bean — become the best of friends, even though, at first meeting, they’re positive they can’t stand each other. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 17-23 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Johnson’s “Reaching for the Moon” is an autobiography for middle graders that will be published next fall, Atheneum Books for Young Readers announced Thursday. Katherine Johnson, at age 100, is telling her life story 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Never mind that his "Captain Underpants" series about two fourth graders and their silly superhero has sold tens of millions of copies -- it still makes parents and guardians crazy. Celebrate Banned Books Week with the 10 most-challenged books 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Half of a group of 360 fifth graders told researchers from Memorial Sloan-Kettering that they used sunscreen regularly when in the sun. Motherlode Blog: Children use less sunscreen at the age when mom and dad stop slathering it on for them. 2012-01-23T16:57:48Z In my daughters’ school, children are mourning a beloved first grader who died from complications of the flu. When the Going Gets Tough, These Kids Find Their Way 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z Now, as a 9th grader, Lizzie flies through the day independently, eating lunch with friends, and staying after school for clubs. Motherlode Blog: Letting a Daughter with Development Disorders Grow Up 2012-07-24T11:00:59Z It may sound like a backhanded compliment to praise this show as a good introductory “King Lear,” one you could take restless 10th graders to, but it is not. Review: A ‘King Lear’ in Which You Feel for All the Daughters 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z A lifetime of scientific research and high culture have done nothing to equip Noah to care for a sixth grader. Review | Emma Donoghue’s ‘Akin’ sends an odd couple to France 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z The inevitable question about how one becomes a writer was asked by an 8th grader. Hosseini discusses new novel at NYC reading 2013-05-22T06:54:09Z When other fourth graders boarded a bus to see the state capitol, Poveromo-Joly packed up the family, rented an Airbnb and did their own tour of St. Augustine. For those still trying to duck covid, the isolation is worse than ever 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z Judy Moody's spirited personality and tomboy verve have made the fictional third grader a staple with the elementary school set. Judy Moody: A Total Bummer 2011-06-10T18:45:00Z The parent of a second grader newly diagnosed with dyslexia wrote me asking if I knew of any apps that might help her son with reading and math. Motherlode Blog: Can you help a parent in search of apps to help a dyslexic second grader learn? 2012-01-24T20:45:35Z “I honestly feel like the eighth grader who snuck into the senior prom,” says Baker. A Cannes (sans kisses) to reawaken our romance with movies 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z The word itself conjures benign images of hobbyists with tweezers and sixth graders with shoeboxes. Art Review: Alternative Worlds Where Even McMansions Are Tiny 2011-06-16T23:06:49Z Cormac, an independent and curious first grader with deep dimples, began listing the countries, rapid fire. How to Backpack Through Europe, With Kids 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z I had been reading high-minded founding father biographies to third graders at the Academy of the City, a charter school in Queens, where I serve on the board. Doctor Dolittle’s Talking Animals Still Have Much to Say 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z For D., it started with an idyllic-seeming school gathering: one house, hosting an ever-changing pack of fifth graders and assorted parents weekly, and welcoming her son, who was new to the school. Motherlode Blog: Parental Quandary: When Young Boys Joke About Rape 2012-04-13T18:36:33Z I can recall being a seventh grader in a church choir surrounded by tittering children embarrassed at having to sing the word “bosom” in a popular hymn. Music Review: Maude Maggart’s ‘Into the Garden’ at Feinstein’s 2012-06-07T21:52:17Z Gift ideas for young adults, middle graders and picture books for the littlest readers on your list. Fantastic books for the teens, toddlers and kids in between on your list 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z When you announced the book, you posted a video talking about how you were overcoming insecurities around not finishing high school and feeling like a ninth grader hiding in the bathroom again. Brandi Carlile opens up about overcoming insecurities, her latest Grammy win and her new memoir 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z Harold is a third grader with a rectangle in the middle of his head. Meet ‘Harold,’ a Dreamy Third Grader With a Lot on His Mind 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z Reed, who starts his first year as a student teacher this fall semester, wrote a rap welcoming his fourth graders to school. Welcome to the fourth grade: Teacher's rap targets students 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z SAT Whale tales by biologist photographer, for first graders to adults, 11 a.m. Community calendar 2011-09-28T21:16:04Z "Kudos to Old Navy for making this first grader's day and ours!" First grader persuades Old Navy to put pockets in girls' jeans 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z SAT Future City Competition for 6th, 7th, 8th graders across the U.S. to create a city of tomorrow, preparing a model, speech, essay, computer simulation; Washington State competition to compete nationally in Washington D.C., Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2014-01-23T17:16:45Z His character, a peculiar second grader named Brick, has already earned a spot in television’s Hall of Fame — at least in the distant wing devoted to oddball kids. Television: Peculiar on and Off Set: Atticus Shaffer of ?The Middle? 2010-05-08T03:09:00Z Are you sure you didn't just memorize the colors from those alphabet charts in kindergarten? a skeptical tenth grader asks when I explain. Confessions of a synesthete: What it's like experiencing the alphabet in full color 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z My now-fifth grader leaves the “lower school” this year, so he will be making one of those speeches. Motherlode Blog: Too Young for Pomp and Circumstance 2012-05-24T01:45:24Z But the Parents Television Council said the show crossed a line and that the network should have warned parents against letting 14-year-olds — eighth graders, typically — view it without supervision. ArtsBeat: MTV Awards Show Prompts Familiar Complaint 2013-08-26T18:24:36Z The festivities begin with a cloying segment in which the adult actors portray fourth graders performing an unorthodox Christmas pageant in a small town in Menard County, Ill., where Lincoln spent his early adulthood. | 'Abraham Lincoln?s Big, Gay Dance Party': Chris Smith Directs a Play More or Less About Lincoln 2010-08-12T03:30:00Z “They mean a lot to people who don’t have much family and are living alone,” said Patrick, a ninth grader at Washington International School in D.C. Teen gives 16,000 valentines to people who might not otherwise get one 2023-02-11T05:00:00Z Playing it was meant to be educational for Mr. Sheppard, now 32, and his fellow fifth graders in 1990s Hanover, Pa., a historically minded town just north of the Mason-Dixon Line, near Gettysburg. Playing a ‘Game’ to Reveal Uncomfortable Truths About Race 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Last year, her eighth-graders wanted to teach fifth- graders about consent. How to talk to kids about sex 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z And the eighth grader has made appearances on "Good Morning America" and "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno" demonstrating admirable poise and a sweet appeal. Rebecca Black looks to move beyond "Friday" 2011-03-25T18:30:21Z Christopher Rougier, a ninth grader at Cleveland High School, was participating in a dress-up event in which students came as Santa, elves or reindeer. Stop saying Santa is white 2013-12-16T18:52:00Z The heroine is Maya, a shy brainiac who is Black and a fifth grader. Eve L. Ewing Adds a Dash of Black Girl Magic to STEM-Based Learning 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z “I have the theological understanding of a third grader,” she said. Anne Lamott, Leftie Guru of Optimism 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z My eighth graders could invent an English-class response about how Skrimshander’s — “skrimshander” is Melville’s term for a young seaman — baseball career has something in common with Ahab’s quest for the While Whale. English teacher: I was wrong about “Hunger Games” 2012-07-19T18:30:00Z The protagonist of this graphic novel is an art-loving seventh grader who is starting at a fancy private school, where he is one of the few African-American students. The 25 Best Children’s Books of 2019 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Twenty first graders and six educators were killed in the 2012 shooting. Alex Jones fails to show again at Sandy Hook suit deposition 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z “She looks like a regular girl going to school,” a second grader said when she was presented with a Lammily doll. Bye, Bye, Barbie: Can 2015 Be The Year We Forego Unattainably Slim Ideals? 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z When second graders arrived for a recent performance of Vital Theater Company’s new children’s production, a few girls read the title aloud and said, “Ew.” Spare Times: For Children, for March 30-April 5 2012-03-29T21:30:27Z Her class reviews range from "nice teacher" to "very tough grader." Jill Biden has never wanted to be first lady, but Joe can’t win the White House without her 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z “No, no, no!” replied several friends, all 11th and 12th graders from the St. Charles College high school in Ontario. Anne Frank Who? Museums Combat Ignorance About the Holocaust 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z The Albemarle County school board made its decision after asking a committee to study the novel, which found that it was not "age-appropriate" for sixth graders, who are 11 to 12 years old. School bans 'anti-Mormon' Sherlock Holmes book 2011-08-16T14:33:54Z "To think I'm in the finals is astounding and mind-blowing," said Muthusamay, a fifth grader from Glen Allen, Virginia. Fist pumps, visualization carry youngsters into U.S. spelling finals 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z In her blog post, Things Fall Apart, she wrote that the sixth graders were moving “from regurgitation to interpretation and application.” Motherlode Blog: What Good Teachers Do When Kids Fail 2011-11-10T17:57:48Z A 15-foot-tall plant model demonstrates photosynthesis in an area devoted to kindergarteners through second graders. In Transit Blog: In Dallas, a Garden Designed for Children 2013-09-02T19:00:43Z Elsie Fisher earned a Golden Globe nomination for her lead role as Kayla, a shy eighth grader navigating the final week of middle school. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Eighth Grade’ and ‘The Passage’ 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z O’Reilly’s approach is rivaled only by Stephen Colbert’s own plans for military takeover, as imagined when he was a fourth grader. Fourth-grader “Stevie” Colbert was a better military strategist than Bill O’Reilly will ever be 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z When O, a sixth grader from Ghana, arrives at his new school in the 1970s, Dee, the most popular girl, is immediately drawn to him. Paperback Row 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Recently, I spoke to first graders about God, and asked them to write down questions. Motherlode Blog: An Agnostic Talks to Her Children About God 2012-11-25T13:50:43Z The nation’s largest physicians group agreed to support legislation that would require classes in causes, consequences and prevention of obesity for first through 12th graders. AMA wants obesity education 2012-06-21T13:46:00Z A third grader in Florida is often late for class. Motherlode: Whose Failing Grade Is It? 2011-05-20T18:36:25Z Normally, the school, which boards fifth through ninth graders, has two or three boarding offers on the table by early March. The Boarding-School Boom 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z Each year, in accordance with the Battle Royale Millennium Act — enacted to address unemployment and youthful lawlessness — a single class of ninth graders is selected for Hobbesian self-destruction. Movie Review: ‘Battle Royale,’ Directed by Kinji Fukasaku 2012-05-24T23:38:04Z These became the basis for her first book, “Henry Huggins,” about a third grader who adopts a stray dog he names Ribsy because he is so skinny his ribs show. Beverly Cleary, Beloved Children’s Book Author, Dies at 104 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z As “Alice’s Farm” opens, the Harveys — Carl, a fifth grader; his baby sister, Marie; and their parents, Sally and Brad — have just moved from Brooklyn to the country with a dream of becoming farmers. What if Peter Rabbit and Mr. McGregor Had Joined Forces? 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z This is Christmas’s debut work for middle graders, but its nuanced storytelling and visual appeal will have outsize reach and meaning beyond this age group. Water Dance 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Looking at the album covers, sitting pretty in the glass cases took me down memory lane to the angry ninth grader that bought that "Reasonable Doubt "album. Jay-Z has always delivered hope – long before he was a mogul 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z She was struck by Mr. Roberts, a towering ninth grader when she spotted him in the back of a modern dance class she taught at a local arts high school. An Ailey Dancer Loyal to His Miami Roots and Mentor 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z He was known as an easy grader and I aced his course. Alex Haley Taught America About Race — and a Young Man How to Write 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z They settled in the Bronx, where Belle, who spoke no English, was placed in a class of first graders. Bel Kaufman, Who Told What School Was Really Like, Dies at 103 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z For me, that moment came at pickup one afternoon when I asked our 1st grader, Diego, that rote parental question, "How was school today?" Motherlode Blog: The Jock (and his Dad) at the Chess Board 2012-07-29T11:00:43Z Imagine you’re an eighth grader in Woodbury, N.J. — slightly bored, slightly anxious — sketching horses in your notebook as a teacher drones, “Peanuts”-style, at the front of the classroom. How Jessie Sima’s 8th-Grade Sketches Led to a Career 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z This is also a really good test to determine whether or not you’re dating a third grader. 11 hilariously awful pieces of sex advice courtesy of Fox News 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z I’m a mentor to several of my 11th graders. Beyond the wedgies: How we oversimplify schoolyard bullying 2014-05-03T21:30:00Z My 8th grader began lobbying for makeup — again — shortly before she turned 13. Motherlode Blog: Makeup, and Feminist Guilt, at 13 2012-04-30T00:18:39Z There were 13 students in the class, all 11th graders. Design: Humanitarian Design Project Aims to Build a Sense of Community 2011-10-23T12:30:10Z “It’s definitely important to show your gratitude, because not everything is going to be given to you,” Brooke Egerton-Warburton, a seventh grader on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, said recently. Cultural Studies: The Found Art of Thank-You Notes 2014-04-04T23:16:35Z Changing how we talk to our kids doesn’t have to be a complicated, serious affair — the sort of thing my seventh grader eye-rollingly refers to as “Mom’s little pep talks.” Even gay-friendly parents still assume their kids are straight 2013-03-15T15:20:00Z Where she succeeds is in making even the knottiest issues seem accessible to a bright seventh grader. Chelsea Clinton’s ‘It’s Your World’ 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z The improbable bit of grit around which this exquisite, miraculous book will form is the title character, a bullied third grader who imagines himself as a caped crusader called “Ear Man.” It All Started in Omaha 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z ABC News in LA says the school also claims to have met with the school’s ninth through eleventh graders about the incident. Brentwood School’s n-word problem: “Is this what $40k worth of private education gets you?” 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z They do not understand why their beloved cousin seems to be mad at mommy or why Grandpa just said someone has a 4th grader’s understanding of economics. How to prevent fights on holidays — without banning politics and other heated topics 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z “Mysteriously comforted” might describe my response, as a seventh grader, to Dionne Warwick’s “Walk On By.” Rembrandt and Gerard Manley Hopkins: How to Take Comfort in Art 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z Stream a dramedy about a nerve-racking week in the life of an eighth grader. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Eighth Grade’ and ‘The Passage’ 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z “I just tried the best I could,” said Ms. Hightower, who is a fifth grader in Cincinnati. Sundance Actors, Ages 10 and 16, Join the ‘Breakthrough’ Ranks 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z And weren’t sixth graders a little young for this kind of thing? Modern Love: A 5-Pound Sack of Maternal Wisdom 2010-10-22T18:56:00Z Williams, who grew up in Soulsville, said he had been singing all his life before coming to the academy as a ninth grader. Stax's past influences future musicians in Memphis 2013-05-16T08:52:09Z Green, is “the white boy” in his public middle school, and trying, like most sixth graders, to stay afloat and to stay fresh. More Books We Loved in 2018 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Gardner’s protagonist, AJ, thinks he’s the most boring sixth grader at Spoons Middle School. Graphic Novels to Give Kids Chills and Thrills 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z It used to be that eighth graders at Oyster River Middle School chose semester-long “genre” projects in English class. Motherlode Blog: What We Learn (or Don't) from Test Scores 2011-11-01T17:18:21Z First graders act like first graders because the conscience of a 6-year-old sees right and wrong in stark, dramatized terms. Motherlode Blog: It’s Not a ‘Problem.’ It’s Called Being a Child. 2013-08-25T12:43:08Z The chair’s unlikely gymnastics underlined the points that Mr. Close was making to his audience, 40 seventh and eighth graders from Bridgeport, Conn.: Break the rules and use limitations to your advantage. Chuck Close Uses Art to Inspire Students to Academic Success 2012-12-18T22:55:31Z In “Dear Mr. Henshaw,” the lonely Leigh Botts, a sixth grader distraught by his parents’ divorce, begins writing to his favorite children’s-book author for advice and eventually finds solace in keeping a diary. Beverly Cleary, Beloved Children’s Book Author, Dies at 104 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z The book had been approved for ninth graders by the school board in June. Sex ed book too sexy for 9th graders in Fremont 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z The first student to enroll in the program was Keith Fleming, then a first grader. An Orchestra Adopts a City, One Kid at Time 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Like the headline from Belarus a few weeks ago, reporting that 10th graders there were being taught how to aim rifles — using shovels. Is There Anything Funny About the War in Ukraine? 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Joy Entertainment and Event Management and Rich Girl Candy CEO Mieka Joi also got involved in the big photo op, donating a wardrobe for the third grader to wear for the pictures. Girl, 8, rocks photo shoot after being denied school picture for hair extensions 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z "I was just so surprised that he did that," fifth grader Elizabeth Lopez told ABC. Alabama elementary school bus driver buys McDonald’s breakfast for students when ice delays school opening 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z This first grader is certainly learning the powers of persuasion. First grader persuades Old Navy to put pockets in girls' jeans 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z More important, her seventh grader, Teddy, is increasingly noncommunicative; and her marriage to her husband, Gary, is on life support. Don’t Mind Me While I Wear My Dog 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z In “Dear Mr. Henshaw,” she introduced Leigh Botts, a sixth grader who is struggling with his parents’ divorce and trying to get his bearings at a new school. Beverly Cleary Wrote About Real Life, and Her Readers Loved Her for It 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z He played in the '90s, before they were raking fourth graders. The plight of young hoop stars who don't go pro 2019-05-04T04:00:00Z Earlier this year, first graders at Evening Star Elementary... First-grader wrote Old Navy asking for girls’ jeans to have real pockets. The letter went viral. 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z She cited thong underwear, push-up bras and leather miniskirts for first to fifth graders as examples. This Life: Clothing Straddles the Line Between Sweet and Skimpy 2013-05-10T21:46:08Z For instance, in a 2011 survey of fourth and sixth graders in Southern California, only 56% could identify hamburger patties as beef, while less than 40% knew of the origin of onions and pickles. Impasta! How the Barilla "pasta fraud" allegations illustrate America's food illiteracy 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Sitting in a “move-up ceremony” with several dozen sixth, seventh and eighth graders today, I couldn’t help but think about that particular statistic. Motherlode Blog: L.G.B.T. Survey: The Age I First Felt Different 2013-06-13T23:04:39Z Tenth graders congregated in a new cafeteria that wouldn’t look out of place in Silicon Valley. An Ice Factory From the 1900s Is Now a Spectacular New Bronx School 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z The massacre at Sandy Hook, during which 20 first graders and six adults were killed, was a decisive moment. With ‘Gunfight,’ an Insider Takes On a Community That Was Once His Own 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z I couldn't resist Facebooking a photo of Diego in full Celtics gear -- Paul Pierce jersey, green wristbands and headband - hunched over a chessboard in a death match with a more conventionally dressed 5th grader. Motherlode Blog: The Jock (and his Dad) at the Chess Board 2012-07-29T11:00:43Z This week she wore it to read to a class of second graders and to thank a group of volunteers who helped with the decorations, but chances are it will get another airing sometime soon. Jill Biden’s White House Christmas Looks Very … Normal 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z For most of its run "Big Mouth" treats Missy like every other middle schooler, highlighting her extreme awkwardness as opposed to the fact that she's a biracial eighth grader in predominantly white school. Even beyond the voice recast, "Big Mouth" nails the adventures of an awkward Black girl 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z To be totally clear, the edgiest passage in the book, which had been approved by the Fremont school board for ninth graders, simply acknowledges that sexual fantasies, sex toys, phone sex and bondage exist. Sex-ed in the age of “Fifty Shades”: Author of controversial book about sex speaks out 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z The burger looks like a creation made by a group of fifth graders who threw all their leftover lunches together. I ate Carl's Jr 1,250-calorie burger. I rather liked it – although it did hurt my chest 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z An analysis of the values and ambitions of American 12th graders finds “a growing discrepancy between the desire for material rewards and the willingness to do the work usually required to earn them.” Are millennials delusional? 2013-05-02T16:36:00Z “Super tough grader! Lots of writing! Not sure how any student can make it out her class!!!” says one recent review. Jill Biden returns to the classroom, live and in person 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Should a second grader be able to “use proper names for body parts, including male and female anatomy?” Motherlode Blog: There will never be a real national sex education standard, but let's debate it anyway. 2012-01-10T20:24:06Z This knowledge is probably intuitive to most people, but not to a third grader who could quote every line of “Malice.” Modern Love: Casting Call: Bit Player, Male 2011-03-10T22:08:55Z Linda Tulloch waited in vain for teachers at the North Street School, a public elementary school in Greenwich, Conn., to provide her son, Jack, now a fifth grader, with handwriting instruction. Watch How You Hold That Crayon 2010-02-24T21:54:00Z Before Neil Armstrong took his giant leap, it seems, a Texas fourth grader named Stan stepped out of the landing module and onto the lunar surface. ‘Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood’ Review: OK, Boomer 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Still, those ninth graders were physically mature enough to get a baby started. Modern Love: A 5-Pound Sack of Maternal Wisdom 2010-10-22T18:56:00Z “There was a second grader who moved here from Taiwan and the teachers really wanted me to be his friend. I felt embarrassed about it and I didn’t know why.” A Shang-Chi Comic for Summer, Ahead of the Hero’s Marvel Film 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z My body memories held no happy endings: no baby to gurgle and coo when I rocked her; no first grader coming home with stick figure family portraits. Curse of my birthing hips 2012-12-20T01:00:00Z One eighth grader, who preferred not to be named, said he coached a school administrator on avoiding the ban last year. After Curfew: Students Find Ways to Thwart Facebook Bans 2011-09-02T21:21:21Z The other morning, on the sidewalk outside the museum, construction crews were working on the facade, while a gaggle of sixth graders from Public School 105 in the Bronx were pouring into the education center. Inside Art: The City as It Was, A Web Site Away 2010-12-23T21:49:13Z |
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