Showing posts with label kindergarten. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kindergarten. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Brynne's First Day of Kindergarten

Today was Brynne's first day of kindergarten. She's been counting down the days and was very excited for today to come. Brynne is my girly-girl and loves to wear dresses. I was quite shocked when I asked her what she was going to wear today and she said her High School Musical shirt. Oh well, at least she let me fix her hair! This first picture is of Brynne in our house getting ready to leave for school.
Brynne was a little shy about having her picture taken in front of her class, but I finally convinced her that no one in her class could see her if she just stood by the door. This last picture is of Brynne sitting at her table. The teacher had something for them to cut and color as they waited for the bell to ring.

There were only a couple small problems during the day. The first problem was when someone sat in "her" spot on the carpet. She had picked out a certain spot during the first part of the day, and when they went back later she fuller expected to have the same spot. Apparently she was sad and cried for me a little bit, but the girls moved and it worked out.
The second problem is that I was 20 minutes late picking her up. I totally forgot that today was Wednesday and, therefore, early-out day. Thankfully, a few other moms forgot too. When I did go to pick her up and arrived at her classroom, I discovered only an empty room. Another teacher was walking by just then and told me the kids all go wait out by the door. Hello! No one told me that! At least it all worked out in the end.
A lady in my ward was there waiting for me to come so she could ask if I was interested in doing a carpool pick up since there are 14 kids from our ward/neighborhood in kindergarten this year. I told her I was but then realized that would be a problem because I'm really only equipped to take one additional child. She said it's up to me if I'm comfortable squishing kids in my car or not. I told her I definitely wasn't comfortable with that, nor was I comfortable with Brynne not riding in a booster seat. I told her I wouldn't be offended if I had to be left out of the carpool because I'm not willing to give on safety (and because I'm one of a kind not having a van). We'll see what happens.
Hooray for a successful first day of school!