What's the difference between kindergarten and kindy?
Kindergarten
Definition:
(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.
Kindy
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) On Saturday morning in Adelaide, someone put the finishing touches to their “all girls must finish kindy before marriage” sign; a woman donned her cow suit painted with the message “don’t halal me”; and the Australia First Party stacked their “Multiculturalism Means Death” flyers before joining a thousand other Reclaim Australia supporters in Elder Park.
(2) Observations of both parent and child behavior were conducted in each of five home observation settings (breakfast time, kindy (kindergarten) or school exit, a structured playtime, bathtime, and bedtime).
(3) Although no one could compare to Nusrat, the group remain formidable, and can be seen next month as part of the Barbican Centre's Ramadan Nights, which also features Sufi street singer Sain Zahoor, a more classical Arabic Sufi group, the al-Kindi Ensemble with Sheikh Habboush, and whirling dervishes from Syria.
(4) At the nearby al-Kindi Hospital, Dr Munas Amer said at least two people, both Iraqis, were killed in the blast and at least 25 other people had been brought for treatment.
(5) Increased mRNA levels were also observed when exponentially growing subconfluent SMCs were incubated in medium containing 0.5% fetal bovine serum for 24 h, similar to the effects of serum deprivation on the expression of types I and III collagen genes (Kindy, M. S., Chang, C.-J., and Sonenshein, G. E. (1988) J. Biol.
(6) One, two, sufi... 204 The number of countries in which Sufism is practised 1.3 The number, in billions, of Muslims worldwide 20 The percentage of Muslims who class themselves as Sufis 10 The number of Sufi adherents, in millions, in Turkey 10 Number of Sufi adherents, in thousands, in Germany 195 Number of practising Sufis in New Zealand 125 Number of albums recorded by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan · Ramadam Nights, featuring the al-Kindi Ensemble, is at the Barbican, London EC1 from 4 November.
(7) As for the al-Kindi Ensemble, I saw them at the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music.
(8) The founder of al-Kindi, Jalaluddin Weiss, is a Frenchman whose fascination with Sufi music has led him to become a leading exponent of the oriental zither (qanun).
(9) 86: 3199-3203) or G1 to S phase (Reilly, C. F., M. S. Kindy, K. E. Brown, R. D. Rosenberg, and G. E Sonenshein.
(10) Previously we have shown that bovine vascular smooth muscle cells (SMCs) express c-myb mRNA (Reilly, C. F., Kindy, M. S., Brown, K. E., Rosenberg, R. D., and Sonenshein, G. E. (1989) J. Biol.