Kindergarten Already?

This afternoon McKenna and I went to Maple Lawn Elementary school to register for Kindergarten. This will be her 3rd elementary school in the past couple of years. She was in Annette Bowen's preschool class at Liberty Ridge last year and this year she's in Christen Robinson's preschool class at Daffodil Elementary. McKenna is really excited to be going to school with the "big kids" next year. She' not quite able to say Kindergarten yet, it comes out more as "my garden" but that doesn't curb her enthusiasm any.


I wish I was as excited, but I'm just nervous, really nervous! I was planning on holding her back another year as I'm not sure she is as ready as she could or should be, but the district has really pushed the issue since her birthday falls before August 31st. Is a Mom really ever ready to send her first child to school? Will the kids be nice, will she make friends? Can we keep up and do the school work? The whole thing stresses me out.

It's got me thinking about my own kindergarten experience. I loved Kindergarten with Mrs Brockbank. I had my first crush on a kid names Thomas Footman-I even named my stuffed grover after him. The bathrooms had a giant Raggedy Ann on the tile in it. I loved freeplay and snack time. I don't remember my first day of school or riding the bus, just the really important stuff.

John remembers getting in trouble at the play dough table for talking to much and having to sit in cirlce time by himself. He also remembers him and Timothy Freeman sticking thier tongues out at each other during circle time. On the first day of school he sat waiting for his Mom to come pick him up from school. When she didn't show up he called her from school and asked why she didn't come, her response was he was supposed to walk home since they were only a couple of blocks from school.