She now spends two days a week in a first-grade classroom, helping the children with the alphabet and answering questions.

"Good morning, class," he said upon entering Ruby Blank's first-grade classroom.

But his emphasis was elsewhere, as he visited a first-grade classroom in which students participated in a character education program.

In 1910 she obtained her first teaching position, in charge of a first-grade classroom.

They are already being removed from their kindergarten or first-grade classrooms.

He then walked into a first-grade classroom with 24 pupils, instead of the anticipated 20.

In a first-grade classroom a teacher calls on her students and inquires after their nationalities.

Passing a first-grade classroom where desks were arranged in pods of four, facing each other, she was struck by the difference from the previous year.

It could be any first-grade classroom, with the neatly placed desks and chairs scaled just right for 6-year-olds.

In a first-grade classroom, there's the expectation that children can occupy themselves, with readers or work sheets.