Walking home from school

Monday, August 18, 2008

I raced home from work to walk with Brian and Jackson and pick up Riley from her first day of school. For the first week, they hold all the kindergarteners in the cafeteria for their parents to come and find them, then we walked her to our planned meeting spot so she could learn where it is.
She was very excited.
I tried to get some idea of how her day went, so I asked what her favorite part of the day was.
“Um, I don’t remember”
It was pretty much the same answer to my questions of “did you make any new friends” and I got no more information for a while, since Brian granted her permission to play at a friend’s house (without consulting me!), and so I couldn’t really grill her about her day until she got home before dinner. I soon figured out that the questions must be as specific as possible.
“What did you do in circle time?”
“Well, we didn’t sit in a circle. It was more like a rectangle”
So after a few more questions, I found out that her teacher read a book about a dog named Spot who went to school, she couldn’t get her drink bottle open, so she raised her hand like she was told but no one came to help (she polished off the lemonade on the walk home), she went to PE and they walked outside and talked about the rules. That’s about all I could glean from her. Hopefully more news will follow!