(n.) A school for young children, conducted on the theory that education should be begun by gratifying and cultivating the normal aptitude for exercise, play, observation, imitation, and construction; -- a name given by Friedrich Froebel, a German educator, who introduced this method of training, in rooms opening on a garden.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Montréal Longitudinal Study of Disruptive Boys, an experimental study, was designed to understand boys who were considered disruptive in kindergarten.
(2) Subjects were 464 children from two kindergartens and three primary schools, Grades 1 through 6 who completed these three types of tasks.
(3) Age was a critical factor, with significant improvements as age increased between the kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 3 and Grade 6 students.
(4) In 20 kindergartens of Baja 1462 children between 3 and 6 yr of age were investigated.
(5) 72 pairs of kindergarten children were each given a brief play session involving an object with which only 1 child could play at a time.
(6) Development in time of unconscious trace reactions as well as a change in the time of reproduction of verbal material in natural conditions was studied by the conditioned reflex to time method on 107 school children aged from six to seven years and on 35 subjects of the same age from a kindergarten.
(7) Infants between the ages of 3 and 24 months and kindergarten children aged from 2 to 5 years were tested.
(8) A total of 124 preschool children aged 5 to 6 years attending kindergartens or placed into children's homes were subjected to neurologic and neuropsychologic examinations.
(9) To assess the influence of housing upon the middle ear status in young children in the form of secretory otitis media (SOM), 210 children not looked after in kindergarten or municipal day-care were investigated.
(10) They were selected by a method to form a representative sample of all West Jerusalem compulsory kindergarten classes in 1971.
(11) Another ten infected people were found during separate investigations of outbreaks in a Kindergarten and in two families.
(12) Kindergarten and adult subjects were trained to remember the locations of 4 objects.
(13) There were no expanding childcare benefits or universal pre-kindergarten to deal with the influx of women in the workplace.
(14) A seroepidemiological survey was carried out in 5 kindergartens in Shanghai to determine the prevalence and risk factors of HBV infection in 520 preschool children, aged 2-6.
(15) Subjects were disadvantaged, regular, and special education kindergarten children (N = 140), and mentally retarded children (N = 20).
(16) Eight kindergarten classroom teachers with high generic teaching skill competence taught a 6-week overhand throwing unit to the children in their intact classes.
(17) Preschool and kindergarten programs have changed focus from an emphasis on play to an emphasis on formal academics.
(18) The Ss, eight males and eight females at each grade level from kindergarten through sixth, were read descriptions of other children.
(19) A new instrument was devised to investigate receptive phoneme-sequencing knowledge of a group of normally articulating children of kindergarten and elementary school age.
(20) Wenzhou, a city in the wealthy eastern province of Zhejiang, has banned all Christmas activities in schools and kindergartens, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
Kindergartner
Definition:
(n.) One who teaches in a kindergarten.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the nearby, poorer Santa Ana Unified district, in contrast, only 0.2% of kindergartners had exemptions on file .
(2) Last year, Maine’s vaccination exemption rate for kindergartners rose to 5.2%.
(3) According to the report, which included data on 45 states that met reporting requirements and the District of Columbia, the median rate of kindergartners with any exemption was less than 1% in six states and greater than 4% in 11 states.
(4) Specifically, we examined the effectiveness of the foot-in-the-door procedure in producing consistent prosocial behavior and self-attributions in kindergartners and second and fifth graders.
(5) Kindergartners and older children correctly identified beginnings and endings of sequences with equal proficiency.
(6) In studies 2a and 2b, training concerning the relevance of orientation improved second and fourth graders' long-term memory for this characteristic, but training effects were minimal for kindergartners.
(7) The effect of sensory input on the performance of a geographical orientation task of children at two different ages (kindergartners and fourth graders) and adults was determined.
(8) Third-grade children formed more cross-ethnic friendships and engaged in more cross-ethnic positive peer interaction than kindergartners.
(9) The results showed that younger children (kindergartners and first graders) understood decomposable idioms better than they did nondecomposable phrases.
(10) An evaluation conducted 1 year after program implementation revealed dramatic increases in the proportion of households producing fruits and vegetables, a higher percentage of breastfeeding mothers, and improvements in weight-for-age among kindergartners.
(11) Twelve healthy adult males and eight (one male and seven females) 6-yr-old kindergartners participated in this study.
(12) The results of our experiment with kindergartners clearly suggest not: In conditions where subjects simply planned to the potential motor activity (without executing it), learning was enhanced.
(13) Prevalence of regular ST use ranges from 18 percent in kindergartners through 6th graders to 55.9 percent among 9th and 10th graders.
(14) Investigated predictors of five measures of early school adjustment for an ethnically diverse cohort of 683 inner-city kindergartners and first graders.
(15) Aim of the examination was to gather information about the rate and intensity of caries cases of Capital kindergartners.
(16) After the massacre of 20 kindergartners in an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, millions of Americans began to take greater notice of the threat from gun violence.
(17) Constructive comprehension abilities were compared in a group of 12 language-disordered children (second graders) and two groups of children acquiring language normally (12 second graders matched to the language-disordered subjects on nonverbal cognitive skills and 12 kindergartners matched on language comprehension).
(18) Kindergartners, second, and fifth graders made repeated trips through a large- or small-scale model town, and then constructed from memory the layout of buildings in either a large- or small-scale space.
(19) Only 1.7% of US parents of kindergartners sought exemptions in 2014 from laws requiring children be vaccinated, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study.
(20) Kindergartners, second graders, fifth graders, and college students were told stories in which the first event might reasonably change the protagonist's appraisal of the second event.