11.   And by the first grade, Robyn knew how to multiply and divide while the rest of her class was learning to add and subtract.

12.   Annual testing beginning in kindergarten to diagnose learning disabilities and get troubled readers the help they need by first grade.

13.   At the end of the year, she was told that they were not ready for first grade and would benefit from an extra-year program.

14.   Barrie jokes that her son will have to teach her first grade, since he is more educated.

15.   Boaz was starting the first grade, a milestone if ever there was one.

16.   A child who has been over-praised in the preschool years, for instance, may get to first grade and be unable to share attention or wait his turn.

17.   A meticulous child, he spent most of kindergarten and a lot of first grade sitting in the hall at Wood Elementary in suburban Arlington.

18.   All the kids did in my classroom in the first grade, or maybe it was the second.

19.   Breed said he has known Klebold since they were on the same baseball team in first grade.

20.   Bush said the program would provide grants to states to test reading in kindergarten and first grade, to train teachers and to make tutoring available.