The first grade program of the Fairview German Bilingual School, the elementary (K-5) segment of the Cincinnati public school system's German bilingual alternative program, is described. The school provides intensive second-language instruction in German for monolingual English-speaking children with bilingualism as the objective. The school is racially, ethnically, and socioeconomically diverse, a characteristic that is emphasized in the curriculum and in classroom interaction. In first grade, 50 minutes a day are devoted to language instruction. The entire class has 30 minutes of instruction each afternoon, and on alternating mornings, half the class has 40 minutes of immersion. The curriculum is entirely oral and fosters comprehension and speaking skills. The four first grade classes fill the entire teaching schedule of one German teacher, who has a classroom to which the students travel. The school's German specialists, who do not have elementary teaching certificates, use complete lesson-plan syllabi designed for each grade by the original program coordinators and giving precise directives for daily instructional activities. A curriculum designed in Germany for foreign-born immigrant children is used. Independent sentence construction emerges in mid-year among the ablest students. A solid foundation for comprehension and communication is laid in first grade. A five-page annotated bibliography concludes the document. (MSE)