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 ...

A love of traveling inspired one Texas teacher to take her students on a pretend trip to Mexico during Hispanic Heritage Month Jenna Wang is an Editorial Intern at PEOPLE. Her work has previously ...

The year was 1956, and young children between 5 and 6 years old were starting first grade at Frank Hartsfield Elementary School. That year Hilda McCarter started teaching the inaugural first-grade ...