Kaylen's 1st Day of 2nd Grade!

Kaylen's first day of 2nd grade was today. We took a few photos before we left for daycare this morning (she takes the bus from daycare to school) - and Wednesdays are 1-hour late starts for teacher development, so Mommy had to get to work.And we had to capture the monkey too! (He's a keychain that came with the backpack.)We went to the school to meet the teacher and drop off her school supplies on Monday evening. She had been a little nervous, but being there on Monday, and seeing her friends, made her really excited! She said she had a good day, and that she really likes her teacher - she's really cool apparently.

Apparently the most exciting thing is that 2nd graders get a choice of salad bar at lunch. Apparently at the beginning of the day they can choose hot lunch or salad bar, or if they bring their own lunch they just put in for milk only.

Then she told me that she got three recesses. Apparently lunch took too long and they only got 5 of their 20 minutes they were supposed to for recess - so they got a third one to make up for it. They'll usually only get 2.

They had PE today for their special, and played some game called Everyone's It. Sounded strange, but I got confused by the description, so who knows!

The 2nd Grade classroom rules are:
1) Be a kid of character.
2) Follow the Golden Rule.
Sounds easy enough, right?

They read two books - the teacher read one about some dog going to school. And she and a partner read a science book about water.

That's all they did. Sounds like kind of a short day - that, or lots of staring at the walls, but who knows. Said she didn't learn anything, and they didn't do any writing or math today. No organizing of school supplies, no weather or calendar or nothing. Odd. Oh well.

She came right home, and while I was fixing dinner, she was playing school with Elijah and Josephine. So she must be excited about school starting again! They had been playing house a lot. :)