First Day Of Kindergarten

**Sigh*****another one leaves me!  Scott was so excited for his first day of school!  I tend to be worried ( I know….can you imagine?)  and for the first week of school I like to get the boys on the bus and then follow the bus to school to make sure they get off and stand in line where they are supposed to wait for their teacher.  Then, when school gets out, I like to be there at the front to make sure they get on the bus and then follow it to the stop to make sure that all flows well too.  Well, it was a good thing I did that this year!! 

 

Scott’s Kindergarten experience has started out a little rough.  So on the first day of school, as they are letting the kids out for the bus, I watch all of them slowly pour out and run for the bus.  No Scott.  Out comes Mrs. N with a group of kids and there he is!  I noticed that all the kids on the bus had special address cards around their necks (Scott didn’t get one) and I knew from the past that the kids are supposed to have one for the first week or so of school until they get down their routine.  So, the bus is getting ready to take off and I asked his teacher if she would let me run in and get him a card so I could get him off on the bus so he is used to his routine.  She was curt with me and said basically I needed to be patient and that this wasn’t going to happen.  I emphasized to her that I really wanted to get him on that bus so he could know what to do, so I wouldn’t have to be there every day making sure he understands what the routine is.  Then she snapped at me and said she would fill it out herself and ushered me away.  This Kindergarten teacher was hired at the school a couple weeks ago and was obviously having a really rough day.  I felt a little annoyed, a little worried and a little sorry for her. 

Well, when Scott arrived home, I quizzed him about his day and he told me it was good, but he was put in time out and he didn’t like that.  I thought, “really?  On the first day!?”  So, I called this teacher, curious to know what Scott’s offense was so it could be remedied and also to offer to come in and fill out a bus card for Scott.  She then told me  again that she would take care of and it wasn’t a bother.  She also started crying and apologized for being rude to me, admitting she shouldn’t have spoken to me the way she did.  Honestly, yah, I thought she was rude, but I was dealing with it.  I could tell she was just really overwhelmed.  Come to find out, she explained that Scott wasn’t in time out, he was moved constantly because everywhere she moved him, she couldn’t get him to stop chatting!  Hmmmm…..my kid have a problem talking too much in class!?  I’m shocked! ( I have to laugh because my mother loves to remind me all the time that I talked so much as a kid, that once, at swim lessons another mother said, not knowing I belonged to my mother, “I bet that kid can talk under water!”)  So, I apologized to her and spoke with Scott, thinking all was going to be fine.  We moved on.

Well, the second day of Kindergarten rolls around and this time he made it to the bus.  When I asked Scott how this day went, he said, “Yah, it was good.  I didn’t have time out and I got to go to recess.”  I hadn’t realized she even held him in for recess as “punishment” for talking on the FIRST DAY OF KINDERGARTEN!  Get real lady!  Like kids aren’t going to be all over the place on the first day of formal school!?  I was disappointed, but tried to say nice things about Mrs. N to make her look fun. 

And that, sums up Scott’s first days of Kindergarten!

Oh, I almost forgot.  Of course, when Scott came home I had a treasure hunt waiting.  He liked it and we bought him a Lite Brite (good for those fine motor skills!)  I think he thinks it’s pretty cool!