Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2024 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $1,065
1%  
Woo hoo!! And our first 1% is in!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: 1stgraders

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Should 1st graders be required to know about the Code of Hammurabi? (Common Core)

    07/31/2013 9:31:04 AM PDT · by Kip Russell · 125 replies
    Engageny.org ^ | July 31, 2013 | Me
    I'll be the first to criticize public education for not being challenging enough and simply passing kids on to the next grade without teaching them anything...but is this too much for first graders? Here's a partial list of what 6 year olds will allegedly be able to do after completing this lesson plan: 2. Explain the importance of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers and the use of canals to support farming and the development of the city of Babylon 4. Identify cuneiform as the system of writing used in Mesopotamia 6. Explain the significance of the Code of Hammurabi 9....
  • Homosexual book for 1st-graders

    03/18/2004 7:51:07 PM PST · by Nachum · 63 replies · 200+ views
    World Net Daily ^ | March 17, 2004 | wnd
    A North Carolina couple is outraged by a book their first-grade daughter brought home from the school library in which a prince finds his true love – in the form of another prince. The leading character in "King & King," Prince Bertie, waves off a bevy of eligible princes before falling for Prince Lee, Associated Press reported. The book ends with the two "marrying" and sharing a kiss. "I was flabbergasted," Michael Hartsell of Wilmington, N.C., told the news service. "My child is not old enough to understand something like that, especially when it is not in our beliefs." AP...