Have cavy, could win. The 61st annual Pasco County Fair in February will again open its rabbit show to the short-tailed rodents from South America, of which the guinea pig is the most recognized. ...more

December 29, 2007

SEBRING — The shuttle buses were late the first day of school and a false fire alarm on the second day were just a couple of minor glitches for an overall successful debut of the Kindergarten Learning Center. ...more

December 26, 2007

The Eagles Club was filled with the sounds of whizzing remote-control cars as children raced them around the dance floor and crinkling paper being ripped from packages. ...more

December 26, 2007

SEBRING — Highlands County kindergartners entered school this year better prepared to learn, according to three screening tests. ...more

December 25, 2007

It's no easy undertaking, this building of gingerbread houses. ...more

December 24, 2007

The soup, pudding and instant potatoes Xavier Peoples brought to class would help feed the hungry. In the special-needs class he attends with other kindergartners and first-graders, the donations also became lessons in math, reading and graphs. ...more

November 28, 2007

The kindergartners on the ground were beside themselves trying to spot the paratroopers plummeting downward from 9,000 feet above their school. ...more

November 21, 2007

The Hugo Schmidt Elementary School Sailors celebrated Veterans Day on Nov. 9. Kindergartners waved star-spangled banners, and everyone pledged allegiance and joined choral director Marshall Gillon's Pride chorus in singing the national anthem as the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps color guard from Tampa Bay Technical High School displayed the flag. ...more

November 21, 2007

Paratroopers, penguins and pizzamakers were among thousands of temporary teachers in Tampa Bay area schools Wednesday in the annual Great American Teach-In. ...more

November 15, 2007

Educators and psychologists have long feared that children entering school with behavior problems were doomed to fall behind in the upper grades, but two new studies suggest those fears are exaggerated. ...more

November 13, 2007