(Gray News) – A first grade teacher recently set up a mock Southwest plane in her classroom for her students to “fly” to Mexico. She created pretend passports for each student to make the experience ...

Learning to listen in first grade helps develop cognitive skills. Source: iStock/FatCamera Tens of millions of children around the United States are going back to school. For those starting first ...

Incoming first-graders offered advice to students starting first grade this year. Many students said they were nervous on their first day but made friends quickly. Reading, math and making friends ...

As the school year approaches its final stretch, first-grade classrooms often face the challenge of maintaining focus after intensive units like U.S. history. Danny Go! and Jack Hartmann have ...

Clarkston author Jeff Chamberlain is hoping to change the minds of young students one school district at a time. He started the Milo Project last year, which he described as a positive, ...

The first-graders of the 2022-23 school year do not appear to take much in their lives for granted. In response to our annual query — “What are you thankful for?” — these 6- and 7-year-olds credited ...

The education system has changed, but that doesn't necessarily mean we've made progress. In 1979, first graders were expected to achieve a series of old-school milestones in areas that went beyond ...

The Alabama legislature passed a long awaited “first-grade readiness” bill Thursday, which would require students who did not complete kindergarten to take a test to enter the first grade. If signed ...

This fall, about 50,000 Wisconsin public school kids will start first grade. They'll file through hundred-year-old hallways and new builds, meeting teachers just out of college or 40-year veteran ...