kindergartener love

Definitions

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  • noun A child who attends a kindergarten
  • noun A person who teaches at a kindergarten

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a child who attends a preschool or kindergarten

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Examples

  • We've tried very hard not to put any academic pressure on Mason and it frustrates me deeply that my kindergartener is worried about his chances to get into Harvard, as it were, metaphorically speaking.

    Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009

  • It would never have occurred to me to say anything but "kindergartener," but I looked it up in Webster's Collegiate and sure enough, the one preserving German morphology is the preferred spelling.

    languagehat.com: KINDERGARTNER. 2004

  • She'd pop out each time our kindergartener said that "that's a boy thing!"

    The Slut-ification of Dora is now complete 2009

  • As any Montessori kindergartener can handle serving, eating, and cleaning-up after himself, a teacher shouldn't need to be an educational wizard to turn the daily at-desk breakfast routine into a teachable moment on personable responsibility.

    Jacqueline Edelberg: Chicago Schools Serve Up Breakfast, But Not Everyone's Happy Jacqueline Edelberg 2011

  • The answers we've heard are heartbreaking: a fourth grader who thinks he's stupid because his undiagnosed dyslexia means he can't read even a single word, a second grader who stays in a homeless shelter and is too scared to sleep at night, a kindergartener whose family ran out of food stamps before the end of the month and is too hungry to pay attention.

    Judith Sandalow: Suspended Disbelief Judith Sandalow 2012

  • She'd pop out each time our kindergartener said that "that's a boy thing!"

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • As any Montessori kindergartener can handle serving, eating, and cleaning-up after himself, a teacher shouldn't need to be an educational wizard to turn the daily at-desk breakfast routine into a teachable moment on personable responsibility.

    Jacqueline Edelberg: Chicago Schools Serve Up Breakfast, But Not Everyone's Happy Jacqueline Edelberg 2011

  • As any Montessori kindergartener can handle serving, eating, and cleaning-up after himself, a teacher shouldn't need to be an educational wizard to turn the daily at-desk breakfast routine into a teachable moment on personable responsibility.

    Jacqueline Edelberg: Chicago Schools Serve Up Breakfast, But Not Everyone's Happy Jacqueline Edelberg 2011

  • The answers we've heard are heartbreaking: a fourth grader who thinks he's stupid because his undiagnosed dyslexia means he can't read even a single word, a second grader who stays in a homeless shelter and is too scared to sleep at night, a kindergartener whose family ran out of food stamps before the end of the month and is too hungry to pay attention.

    Judith Sandalow: Suspended Disbelief Judith Sandalow 2012

  • As any Montessori kindergartener can handle serving, eating, and cleaning-up after himself, a teacher shouldn't need to be an educational wizard to turn the daily at-desk breakfast routine into a teachable moment on personable responsibility.

    Jacqueline Edelberg: Chicago Schools Serve Up Breakfast, But Not Everyone's Happy Jacqueline Edelberg 2011

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