What used to be a music room was sacrificed this year to cope with a shortage of classrooms, becoming a third-grade classroom.

The vocals were painfully high-pitched and reminded me a bit too much of free time in an echoey third-grade classroom.

It was the fall of 1993, and we were standing near the front of my third-grade classroom.

"We're not going to have a carpet," he said, comparing the space to his old third-grade classroom.

One of them, a woman cleaning a third-grade classroom who asked not to be identified, thought the shots sounded like scurrying footsteps overhead.

Her office walls were covered with posters and drawings by children, making it look more like a third-grade classroom.

Five years ago, the school, desperate for space, converted the old library into a third-grade classroom.

There is another empty desk one floor down, in a third-grade classroom.

She thought of the well-scrubbed faces in her third-grade classroom, and found Robert's face most prominent among them.

First-, second- and third-grade classrooms may have one more student than expected this fall.