Scatty was the word my second-grade teacher used to describe me to my mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unbearable Lightness] Reference

Your second-grade teacher is here, with most of the class.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives'] Reference

"I mean, do I really need to keep my second-grade essay on Spain?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Pack Rats -- and a House Full of Junk] Reference

Not to sound second-grade about this, but the Republicans started it.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Beat: 'Make Nice'? Not Likely] Reference

And that's the second-grade California stuff, we can't wait 'til September!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corn-- Ethanol or Oil - the great debate - NOT!!] Reference

During the first years, the people's education was at the second-grade level.    From Wordnik.com.  [30TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS 1ST SPEECH] Reference

Betsy Rogers (ph) teaches first - and second-grade students in Leeds, Alabama.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 30, 2003] Reference

So, you figure, sixth grade, many of them are coming in at second-grade level.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2009] Reference

Shannon began using Hopecam services in April 2009, during her second-grade year.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cancer patients connect with school friends via Hopecam] Reference

It is our President speaking to us as if he were reading from a second-grade primer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Has Everything Really Changed?] Reference

The class has been exchanging tweets with another second-grade class at a nearby school.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 14, 2009] Reference

Two second-grade girls brutally beaten and stabbed to death while out riding their bikes.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 11, 2005] Reference

Mrs. White's second-grade class in Orono, Maine, is teaching her students how to Twitter.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 14, 2009] Reference

Headlines that feature second-grade reading-level words are shared 30% more than average.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are Facebook Users Sex Obsessed? Survey Shows 'Sex Sells' On The Site] Reference

Elizabeth Lamori, a second-grade teacher, prepares crayon and paint boxes for the morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Day On The Concrete Battlefield] Reference

But I can change the teaching practices of kindergarten, first - and second-grade teachers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why U.S. Teachers Aren't Making The Grade] Reference

Erika Clouet, 24, was a second-grade teacher who colleagues described as a wonderful teacher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Erika and German Clouet Killed by DUI Uriel Perez Palacios] Reference

She ` s leaving us here at NANCY GRACE for a higher calling: to become a second-grade teacher.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2006] Reference

Rhee was placed in one of the lowest-performing schools in Baltimore as a second-grade teacher.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Unlikely Gambler] Reference

First - and second-grade students exceed or match the national average for math and reading scores.    From Wordnik.com.  [Randi Weingarten: Shining a Light on School Success Stories] Reference

A second-grade girl identifies with second-grade girls and adopts the behavioral norms of that group.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Parent Trap] Reference

I wasn't aware of this development until briefed by our second-grade daughter over dinner last night.    From Wordnik.com.  [Take work to your child day] Reference

A few months ago, Paul Thomas Anderson found his second-grade school notebook: "" My name is Paul Anderson.    From Wordnik.com.  [Porn In The U.S.A.] Reference

I yelled, grabbing Daniel by the collar and swinging his second-grade body around to hit a wall of lockers.    From Wordnik.com.  [unclebob Diary Entry] Reference

There was Mr. Nitzblum, the second-grade teacher who used to keep him in at recess, fondle him in a closet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maud Newton's 'Conversations You Have At Twenty': Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature] Reference

He entered a second-grade classroom and, as a shocked teacher looked on, stabbed three boys at the blackboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan: Death In Second Grade] Reference

She was asked to take over a second-grade class in Harlem midyear — after several other teachers had given up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackboard Jungle] Reference

CHO: In Massachusetts, some parents are just livid over a book that was read to their child's second-grade class.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2006] Reference

KING: Someone once said: Maybe, your first - and second-grade teacher is the most important teacher in your life.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 29, 2001] Reference

Only a few decades ago, Christopher Columbus was the discoverer of America and a hero of the second-grade classroom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rediscovering America] Reference

Every spring at Woodland Elementary West, some 400 second-grade students plant vegetable seedlings in their classrooms.    From Wordnik.com.  [School Gardens Across The Nation, And A Resource List For Starting Your Own] Reference

Then the attacker turned, storming down the corridor into two other second-grade classrooms where he continued his rampage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Japan: Death In Second Grade] Reference

A few larger districts, like San Francisco Unified, have already reported a 12 percent rise in second-grade reading scores.    From Wordnik.com.  [California's Space Race] Reference

It was simply a second-grade report on the order of those first-day-of - school writing assignments: What I Did Last Summer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Susan Corso: Journey to Yes] Reference

So Gray took a controversial course for educators on brain development, then revamped the first - and second-grade curriculum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boy Brains, Girl Brains] Reference

Just say, "You've made my child's second-grade year so special, and I can't tell you how much I appreciate that," says Sullivan.    From Wordnik.com.  [EDUCATION: CLASSY GIFTS] Reference

He began his employment as a second-grade teacher in the international school system in Bangkok on Tuesday morning of this week.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 17, 2006] Reference