First graders step out of the early childhood phase of life and into a classroom with less emphasis on group play and more focus on learning through reading and listening. At this age, children want ...

In the second semester, my first-grade daughter began learning Kanji.Watching her at home, I noticed something a bit ...

Education experts have a solid answer. If kindergarten is about transitioning away from the play-based learning of preschool, then first grade is about stepping fully into the world of academics. “The ...

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 ...

Hello. This is Gon @ English Learning.In my previous article, I mentioned that I would be taking on the Eiken Pre-1st Grade ...

Heidi Coffin’s first-graders are some tech-savvy kids. The digital feats her industrious 6- and 7-year olds from Box Elder and Ellsworth Air Force Base perform on their iPads and desktops sound more ...

Author Robert Fulghum famously wrote, “All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten.” But the pandemic meant that many students missed that pivotal school year or experienced a more disrupted ...

One in a series of occasional articles about the grades that provide the building blocks of a child's education. One of the Campbell Elementary School first-graders in Room 154, a determined child ...

I had to laugh this week when my husband expressed his dismay at being completely confounded by my son’s first grade report card. As a teacher with a master’s degree, an education policy wonk, and ...

Many high-achieving students experience math anxiety at a young age — a problem that can follow them throughout their lives, new research at the University of Chicago shows. In a study of first- and ...

ACES Wintergreen Interdistrict Magnet School is inviting families to learn more about its unique arts-infused educational ...