Thread: How well do you remember first grade?

Originally Posted by The Backward OX

Would either of you good people be able to provide your source for this?

Too much time waste for me.

I remember the end of one day in first grade. In order to leave the classroom, we had to listen for our phone numbers which our teacher recited. I left close to last because I thought I never heard mine. I knew my phone number! Turns out that she said mine, but pronounced the zero's like zero's, verses 'o's' like my mom taught me. Funny huh?

Originally Posted by Kevin

in the U.S. it's 1. daycare- birth to 3
2. preschool- 3 to 4
3. kindergarden- 4 to 5
4. first grade thru twelvth- 5/6 to 17/18 ( depending on what month you were born, as the school year starts in september)

So, 1st would be 5 and 6 year olds, with the majority being 6 years old.

I was 6. Wow, I missed alot of years of schooling by skipping pre, and kindergsarden.
I was ready with school work, but I think I was behind in socialization in first grade.

I have a kindergartener, going by that a first-grader here would be 6-7 years old.

I remember bits of fourth grade clearly including the teacher's name, the lunchroom, the desks, what the little cot was like where you could lay down if you felt sick, and that I didn't like first grade as much as kindergarten because it wasn't as much fun. I remember more of kindergarten probably because I enjoyed it (and had my first crush *sigh!*) but still bits and pieces.