First Day of Kindergarten

The long awaited first day of school is here!  Drew started Kindergarten on August 27th, and parents were required to be there for the first 45 minutes.  We met up with our neighbor and did something for the first time since Drew started Preschool at 2 1/2... we walked to school!  That's a major accomplishment for us.  We had to drive Drew about 4 miles to Preschool, and then another 4 miles to his Transitional Kindergarten (which was in the same district, just not available at our home school).

Drew has been anxiously awaiting starting Kindergarten.  No nerves whatsoever.  I think we got all of them out last year with TK, he knew the drill now (as did Mom and Dad).  He even tried to convince us to let him skip Kindergarten and go straight to first grade - because all of his Preschool friends were going into first.  Poor kid.

We're going to take pictures in front of the school sign (it's the one out back) just so we can see how much Drew grows over the year(s)!

Drew and Christopher (our neighbor) winding their way through the campus to the Kindergarten rooms.

Daddy and Drew waiting for the teacher.

And Mommy wanted in on that action...

And once we were inside, they had a "scavenger hunt" for the kids.  They had activities to do and complete, here Drew is writing his name, height and drawing a picture of himself.

Here's the scavenger hunt...

Some of it was to find the bathroom, take pictures, read a book...

Then after 45 minutes the kids were called over for their "meeting" otherwise known as carpet time.

For the first two weeks of school they do Kindergarten assessments, to set benchmarks for the kids.  During this time all kids were to attend school for the same time, they weren't assigned a time slot (early/late) until yesterday.  So now we know what time Drew starts class on Monday!   So far he's really enjoying school, let's hope this lasts!  He would  often tell me School is boring last year in TK and that he never learned anything.  He doesn't realize that he does learn things through more interactive activities rather than just doing worksheets and pop-quizzes.

Oh and just for fun, here is a comparison of his first day of school last year for TK and this year.