Mike Gordon

The first graders in Mrs. Connor's class prove that they can work together when Cookie the dog disrupts their graduation ceremony.

When Hannah goes to the beach with her mother, she is shocked to find her first-grade teacher, Mrs. Connor, lying there in a bathing suit as if she were an ordinary person.

Introduces catepillars, describing how they hatch from an egg, eat and grow, shed they skins, form a chrysalis, and transform into a butterfly.

"Charles is excited about his first day of first grade at Robin Hill School. He wants his puppy, Cookie, to come to school too. Then Charles finds out he has to leave Cookie at home. Will school still be fun without his best friend?"--

When first-graders Nick, Jamie, and Reza refuse to let Emma join their soccer game just because she is a girl, Emma and her father devise a plan to teach the boys a lesson.

"Mrs. Connor's first-grade class is trying to count from one to ten in less than a second. No one is fast enough to get all the way to ten before time is up...until the first graders work together to come up with a faster way to count"--

While fishing one day, Jake thinks he sees a crocodile in the lake.

Mrs. Connor's first grade class decides to send colorful fall leaves to students in another state where the leaves do not change color.

When Mrs. Connor's class celebrates Earth Day, Emma decides to start small by recycling, using only what she needs, and picking up trash when she goes for a walk.

"Mrs. Connor's class is putting on a play at Robin Hill School! Nia is excited to land a role...but when the big day comes, she forgets her lines. Will Mrs. Connor's breathing exercise help Nia calm down and save the show?"--