CANTON – Seven-year-old CJ Anderson wanted to take swim lessons but was nervous. His dad, Cortney Anderson, said the youngster loves water but fears it. Five weeks ago, the first grader at Frazer ...

Read a fairytale, learn about story sequence, and do a quick math problem! Literacy lessons for 1st graders taught by Colorado master teacher Christina Gillette Randle. In response to school closures ...

On the first day of school at Hayward’s Park Elementary, the first lesson Lori Suydam gave her first-graders had nothing to do with reading or writing or math. She taught them how to mute themselves ...

OF THE DAY CAME FROM FIRST GRADERS WITH A BIG HEART. >> WE’RE GOING TO HELP OTHER KIDS BY BEING KIND TO THEM. WAKISHA: MS. FAVORS FIRST GRADE CLASS WAS AT ATTENTION >> I WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT SOME ...

SAN JOSE, California -- A group of first graders from Bachrodt Charter Academy took a field trip Wednesday afternoon where they learned how to skate from Olympic champion Kristi Yamaguchi. "Some of ...

Michael Winerip of the New York Times has assembled 25 things about first-graders in this piece, which notes that “among the many horrors associated with the killing of 20 children at Sandy Hook ...

Planned sex education lessons for first-graders in New Jersey will include discussions of gender identity — outraging some parents and Republican politicians including potential presidential candidate ...

What children should be taught about sex and gender, and when, has become a hot topic across the country. But parents didn’t choose this — it was forced upon them. Starting in September, New Jersey ...

ROCKWELL CITY, Iowa — South Central Calhoun is a rural school district in northwest Iowa with about 900 students, and is now home to three first-grade teachers who have won the Golden Apple. The ...

Members of the Wellington School's Apiary Club earlier this month helped supplement first-graders' lessons about the importance of honeybees in the ecosystem. On April 7, members of the Apiary Club, ...