The First Day of Kindergarten - nice poem

[~Jenn]

I found this yesterday in amongst Teagan's 'welcome to junior kindergarten' stuff, and pretty much sat down and cried throughout! It hit me that she's going to school...she's always had her sister with her, and she has to do this on her own. She'll be fine, but I saw this morning that she's nervous (she's meeting her teacher today), and a little scared. She'll do fine, but...

Anyways, I thought I'd share with all of the other emotional mom's! :lol:

The First Day of Kindergarten

I used to be so little, but not anymore,
Tomorrow I'll get up and walk out the door.
I'm going to Kindergarten - it's the first time for me.
It's great to be big, but I'm scared as can be.

My tummy's in knots. You want to know why?
I'm thinking that maybe, just maybe I'll cry.
When Dad leaves the school and I'm there alone,
I'm thinking htat maybe I'll want to go home.

But wait - Mommy said I'll play lots of games,
And meet lots of friends - I can learn all their names.
The first day of Kindergarten, oh there's so much to do!
There's painting and books and a big playground too!

I used to be little, but not anymore.
Tomorrow I'll get up and walk out the door.
I'm going to Kindergarten - it's my first day, you see.
It's great to be big! I'm so glad that I'm me.

Author Unknown.

[Bev]

Cute! :)

The Kissing Hand is a nice book that they often read during the first few days of kindergarten too. That's a nice one. It's about a racoon's first day of school and he's scared so his Mommy kisses him on the palm of his left hand and says if he's scared to put his hand on his cheek and it will be like his Mommy kissing him and he can know that she is with him and loves him and he doesn't have to be scared.

[Lynn]

Bev, I can't read that book without crying. :blush:

[Nichole]

:bawl: