First Graders

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  Teacher Asks First Graders To Draw A Picture Of Her. Results Are So Wholesome

  In the Twitter thread, she posted drawings of her students and rated them for their efforts.

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  Here's What Twinkle Khanna Wanted To Do After 3-Hour Session With "Teacher" Nitara

  "It doesn't help that my Wi-Fi connection has the same attention span as my child," wrote Twinkle

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  Scientists Find Arctic Ocean Sea Ice Loaded With Microplastics

  At first glance, it looks like hard candy laced with flecks of fake fruit, or a third grader's art project confected from recycled debris. In reality, it's a sliver of Arctic Ocean sea ice riddled with microplastics.

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  Can You Solve This Simple Puzzle As Well As A First Grader Did?

  We're just a few days into 2018 and already an interesting puzzle - and its solution given by a child - has left many on Twitter stunned. It's a simple question based on word play and while it has a simple enough answer, a first grader's answer for it has made it all the more thought-provoking.

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  Mahindra Forays Into Construction Equipment Sector With RoadMaster G75 Motor Grader

  Mahindra has announced its foray into the construction equipment business with the launch of its first motor grader - Mahindra RoadMaster G75. The company's new offering targeted at road contractors is being manufactured at the Chakan facility in Pune, and has been developed in-house for Indian conditions with the help of customer feedback.

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  UP Boy Cracks JEE At 15, Becomes One Of The Youngest To Enter IIT

  At first glance, 15-year-old Abhay Agrawal looks like any other 10th grader, but what sets him apart is the fact that he has already cleared IIT-JEE (Advanced) and secured admission in mechanical engineering. The young boy from Uttar Pradesh's Firozabad has qualified for IIT admission with an all-India rank of 2,467.

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  Boy, 6, Fighting To Survive After South Carolina School Shooting

  A first grader who was shot and wounded by a 14-year-old boy accused of killing his father before he opened fire outside a South Carolina elementary school is "fighting for his life," a fire chief said on Thursday.

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  Are You Smarter than Hong Kong's First Graders? Solve This Little Puzzle

  All you need to do is figure out the number of the parking spot that has the car on it. Just keep in mind that figuring this out shouldn't take you more than 20 seconds.

• Arrested For First Grader's Rape, Instructor Allegedly Had Child Rape Videos on Laptop

  The search for the alleged rapist of a six-year-old first grader in an elite school of Bangalore has led the police to a skating instructor who stashed videos of schoolchildren being raped.

• New Sandy Hook school opens after Newtown attack

  Classes resumed on Thursday for the more than 400 surviving students of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, 20 days after a massacre at the school that killed 20 first graders and six adults last month, plunging a rural New England town and the nation into grief.

• Barack Obama wants gun violence measures passed in 2013

  Recalling the shooting of 20 first graders as the worst day of his presidency, President Barack Obama on Sunday pledged to put his "full weight" behind a legislative package next year aimed at containing gun violence.

• NASA releases new moon pics requested by fourth graders

  A NASA spacecraft in orbit around the moon has sent back five dozen new images of the lunar surface including a view of the far side with Earth in the distance. Don't thank scientists for it. Fourth-graders from Emily Dickinson Elementary School in Bozeman, Mont., directed the spacecraft to snap pictures as part of a project headed by Sally Ride, t...

• Troubled behaviour may lead to smoking

  First graders who misbehave in school are more likely to be regular smokers when they grow up.