elementary school
the lowest school giving formal instruction, teaching the rudiments of learning, and extending usually from six to eight years.
Origin of elementary school
1- Also called primary school.
Words Nearby elementary school
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How to use elementary school in a sentence
Some may have friends who don’t have kids, so they’re kind of in a different orbit and want friends in this orbit so it isn’t a lonely decade of pretending to be fascinated by elementary school basketball.
Carolyn Hax: No time for small talk? That’s building a big wall. | Carolyn Hax | February 11, 2021 | Washington PostWilson first met Ballard in elementary school and the two became friends after performing in a school talent show.
Mary Wilson, Founding Member Of The Supremes, Has Died At 76 | Brande Victorian | February 9, 2021 | Essence.comWe’ve even got kids in elementary school who, with their parents, make daily precipitation observations and go online and enter them as part of a national database.
As Earth warms, will snowstorms be a thing of the past? | Haben Kelati | January 26, 2021 | Washington PostMinna-Choe said she’d never heard of climate change until she moved to San Diego at the end of elementary school.
Environment Report: Local Farms Want Your Table Scraps | MacKenzie Elmer | January 25, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoSalmon and Hogan urged in-person instruction for students with special needs and at least hybrid instruction with some in-person schooling for elementary school students.
D.C. will resume indoor dining Friday as coronavirus cases hover at elevated levels | Julie Zauzmer, Rebecca Tan, Erin Cox, Gregory S. Schneider | January 22, 2021 | Washington Post
Although Huckabee's condescending tone - like that of an elementary school history teacher - makes it difficult to take seriously.
Huckabee 2016: Bend Over and Take It Like a Prisoner! | Olivia Nuzzi | January 8, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd then I did teachers all throughout elementary school and junior high for my friends.
Coffee Talk with Fred Armisen: On ‘Portlandia,’ Meeting Obama, and Taylor Swift’s Greatness | Marlow Stern | January 7, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTSupporters pointed to math and literacy gains, while critics noted that those improvements disappeared in elementary school.
Can the U.S. Government Go Moneyball? | Peter Orszag, Jim Nussle | December 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA small-town Ohio elementary school teacher just racked up 25 charges on an otherwise clean record for allegedly raping her son.
Ohio Elementary School Teacher Charged With Raping Her Son | Nina Strochlic | November 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTDetermined, she dropped out and taught herself everything from the elementary school level through high school.
How ‘Titanic ’Helped This Brave Young Woman Escape North Korea’s Totalitarian State | Lizzie Crocker | October 31, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTA child enters the elementary school at the age of about six years.
Mentally Defective Children | Alfred BinetA longer period of elementary school life during which no child shall be employed for other than educational purposes.
Cambridge Essays on Education | Variouselementary school children have a large measure of initiative; all they need is a real chance to exercise it.
Cambridge Essays on Education | VariousThe method by which elementary school children pass to the secondary school is by means of competitive scholarships.
Cambridge Essays on Education | VariousThey were expected however to help the children at their lessons for the elementary school before the family retired.
English As We Speak It in Ireland | P. W. Joyce
British Dictionary definitions for elementary school
British a former name for primary school
Also called (in the US): grade school, grammar school US and Canadian a state school in which instruction is given for the first six to eight years of a child's education
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