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n. A program or class for four-year-old to six-year-old children that serves as an introduction to school.

n. An educational institution for young children, usually between ages 4 and 6; nursery school.

n. The elementary school grade before first grade.

n. A class within a primary school or a separate school for young children, usually between the ages of four and six years, designed to adapt children to the classroom environment before beginning academic training, 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.

n. A school in which instruction is imparted to very young children by the use of objects and instructive games and songs, according to the system initiated by Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852) in Germany in 1840.

n. a preschool for children age 4 to 6 to prepare them for primary school

"Part of me appreciates the process, the other part of me just feels that setting goals for kids in kindergarten is a little premature."

preschool   

daycare   

kindergartener   

nursery school    preschool   

high-school    sixth-grade    kids'    first-grade    Sunday school    first-year    preparatory    elementary    undergraduate