31.   Corey, who is in first grade, should know.

32.   Cornejo himself never finished first grade.

33.   Does that goofy background music set up some sort of harmonic vibration in their brain that causes them to forget the things they learned in first grade?

34.   Edgar started in an integrated preschool, then mainstreamed in kindergarten, then spent first grade in a private school.

35.   Dripping Springs center Julie Hurlbut has played basketball since the first grade, but she never had a strong female role model.

36.   Elizabeth, Gregory and Andrew were together in kindergarten, but separated beginning in first grade.

37.   Earlier this year, one mother tried to qualify her second grader for the test by saying he was not so smart and could easily repeat first grade.

38.   Early in first grade, Lawrence, who speaks Spanish and English at home, struck his new teacher as being exceptionally quiet.

39.   Erickson remembers a boy named Larry getting down on one knee to propose to her in first grade.

40.   First grade is her favorite, she said.