First Day of School, Part 2

Well, Caleb is home now. The time actually seemed to go pretty quickly. I have already learned one thing as a new Kindergarten mom: if your child is a walker, you're supposed to send the teacher a note, so she knows he's not getting on the bus! Thankfully, McKenna and I were there early enough to learn of this before Caleb was delivered home to an empty, locked house! =) I wondered how they knew what he was supposed to do, now I know =) So, I have already put the note to his teacher in his backpack for tomorrow =)

Here are some of Caleb's thoughts on his day:

1. He helped the teacher with the weather and calendar ( I think all of the students got to help with this for today...eventually it becomes a special privilege)
2. He got to say the Pledge of Allegiance (glad they still do this)
   
3. He had his first assembly in the gym with all of the kids in his school
4. He wasn't scared or nervous at all (even when there were big kids in the cafeteria while he waited for school to start in the morning)
   
5. His teacher is really nice (Mrs. Rice is her name)
   
6. When the teacher asked the class if they were ready to go home or if they wanted to stay at school, he said that he wanted to go home, but that he really liked school a lot

I think he had a really great first day! We spent about 20 minutes when he first got home just going over every detail of his day (that was a whole 2.5 hours of his day that I wasn't a part of)!! Some of the other things he told me were that they didn't have recess at all (don't know if they never have it, or just not today). They did go outside to write their names with chalk on some curvy line (??). He thinks he gets to have music tomorrow. He made one little friend today, a little girl named Avery. He said that the teacher called out 2 names at a time, and they were supposed to introduce themselves to each other. His overall synopsis was that it was hard, but fun!! =) I'll keep everyone posted with new Kindergarten adventures as they arise!! =)