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art room |
In some schools, there is a room called an art room. It is a kind of classroom, and teachers teach students things like painting and drawing there. Things like brushes, paint, clay, glue, scissors, and paper are kept in an art room. |
blackboard |
A blackboard is a smooth, dark, hard surface that is often hung on a wall in a school classroom. It is used for writing with chalk. |
board |
When we talk about a board, we often mean a large, flat thing that hangs on the wall of a classroom. A teacher writes or draws on the board. Board is a short way to say blackboard or whiteboard. [1/6 definitions] |
chalkboard |
A chalkboard is something a teacher might write on in a classroom. It's a smooth dark board that usually hangs on a wall. People use chalk to write on a chalkboard. "Chalkboard" is another word for "blackboard." |
chemistry lab |
A chemistry lab is a special room in a school. In a chemistry lab, students can see what happens when certain chemicals come together with other chemicals. They can also learn how things happen in nature by watching something similar in the classroom. |
classroom |
A classroom is a room in a school where students study with their teachers. |
field trip |
When students go on a field trip, they go out of their classroom and school to another place to learn things. |
forward |
When you face forward, it means that you look toward the front. If you move forward in the classroom, you move to a desk that is nearer the front. [1/6 definitions] |
homeroom |
a classroom where students meet at the beginning of the school day for attendance and announcements. |
music room |
in a school, a classroom where music is taught and where instruments may be kept. |
presence |
At the beginning of school each day, teachers check the presence of students in their classroom. That means the teachers check whether each student is there or not. If a student is there, it means the student is present. If the student is not there, then the student is absent. Teachers always hope for the presence of each student. [1/2 definitions] |
principal's office |
The principal's office is a place in a school. The principal is the head of the school and makes important decisions about how the school runs. The principal's office is where the principal works with other people who help run the school. Sometimes the principal has to decide what to do with students who make problems for other children and the teacher in the classroom. If a student does something bad or needs to go home for some reason, that student might spend time in the principal's office. |
twentieth |
If you are the twentieth person to enter the classroom, that means nineteen people came into the classroom before you. [1/2 definitions] |
whiteboard |
A whiteboard is something you often see in a classroom at school. It is a large, flat, shiny board used for writing. It often hangs on the wall, and it is usually white. Teachers can write on it with special markers. [1/2 definitions] |
worksheet |
A worksheet is a piece of paper with questions to answer or problems to solve. It is usually less difficult than a homework assignment or a test. It is something for you to do that helps you understand and learn the things you are studying. Worksheets are often done in the classroom instead of at home, and teachers often don't grade them. |
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