Jitters on the first day of kindergarten are almost a given. But, do they have to be? The Springfield school district is taking extra steps this summer to better prepare as many 5-year-olds as ...

PORT BYRON, Ill. — Kindergarten at Riverdale Elementary School always means one thing: monarch butterflies. It's a longstanding tradition to teach a unit about the winged insect as students learn ...

Outside Winnetka’s Greeley School, the weather was dank and gray on Friday. Inside, however, a ribbon of kindergartners bedecked in orange, yellow and black butterfly wings and guided by teacher ...

For Hubbard Woods School Principal Beth Carmody, a Friday morning downpour could not dampen her enthusiasm for the Winnetka school’s annual kindergarten butterfly migration. “You see the wonder that ...