First Day of Kindergarten!

That's right - today was Jackson's 1st day of Kindergarten!  If you need a moment to let that one sink in, I understand.  I still can't get over the fact that I'm the parent of a school aged kid.  Not a preschooler, but a school ager.  In school all day, every day with big kids...5th graders!  He couldn't have been more excited about today and it went great for all of us!

 

Today was actually Jackson's 'staggered entry' day, which is really more of an assessment day for the teachers and probably a sort of orientation for the kids.  All of the kindergarteners were assigned one day this week, M-Th, then tomorrow they will all go to meet their teacher.  So, in some respects, Jackson's first real day will be next Monday.  That's when we'll drop him off in his classroom, with his teacher, at his desk, with his cubbie labeled with his name.  

As for today though, he was very eager to tell me all about it.  The way I understand it, they had some kind of hunt around the school, looking for a raccoon, and the raccoon's mommy left them cookies.  They went to playground and had lunch in the cafeteria.  He did have a little mishap during lunch, but he didn't seem fazed by it.  Knowing him, he probably thought it was just funny.  In his lunch was a homemade frozen smoothie pop.  I explained to him this morning that it would be thawed by lunch and it would actually be more like a drinkable yogurt.  Well, apparently I should've been more clear in explaining that he would need to open it very carefully (not squeeze it!) as to avoid slinging smoothie all over the place.  So yeah, he opened it and from what he described it made 'a big, BIG mess!'  He said a teacher helped him clean it up, but I saw evidence of splattered smoothie in his lunchbox and on his shirt.  Needless to say, we will be practicing opening thawed smoothie pops before I send him with another one.  I sure do hope the teachers weren't too mad at me! :-)

My proudest moment of today was when I asked him what was his favorite part of the day.  He replied, 'Meeting new friends!'  I guess the Friendship Award that he received in pre-K is a quality that will stick with him. :-)