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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 were common themes mentioned.

This fall, about 50,000 Wisconsin public school kids will start first grade. They'll file through hundred-year-old hallways and new builds, meeting teachers just out of college or 40-year veteran educators, with dozens of new faces around them.

It’s been awhile since our reporters were in first grade, and we wanted to know what it’s like. So we asked students from around the state who just finished first grade: What do this year's new first-graders need to know?

Prepping for first grade isn’t just about the academics, longtime Appleton teach

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