21.   About the time my son was in, say, third grade, he had surpassed my knowledge of how to play the game.

22.   Aditya has just completed the third grade.

23.   After third grade, her parents decided to teach her at home, where she could proceed at her own pace.

24.   After the third grade, he was essentially educated at home.

25.   Born in Detroit, Randall was in the third grade when her parents separated and she moved to Washington with her mother, Bettie, a political scientist.

26.   Bush also touted new school standards her husband signed into law last month that are designed to ensure every child reads at their grade level by the third grade.

27.   Bush succeeded in getting the Legislature to finance his reading academies, whose goal is to teach all Texans to read by third grade.

28.   But if kids are going to do badly in school, third grade is when it starts.

29.   But research found that when science education got more formal, in about the third grade, children started to tune out and say it was boring.

30.   But to each other, we still look like the gangly blondes we were when we really met, in third grade.