First day of kindergarten

Gavin started his first day of kindergarten today! Out here kindergarten is full days two (and sometimes three) days a week - it's not worth bussing the country kids in for just a half a day at a time. Gavin will be going Tuesdays and Thursdays and more or less every second Friday.

Gavin's going to the local Catholic school, which is also where he went to half-day Junior Kindergarten last year. The Jr K and Kindergarten share the same classroom with the same two teachers, so everything was pretty familiar to Gavin this morning - just a new spot on the bootrack for his shoes, and a different cubby in the classroom. :)

The Tuesday/Thursday kindergarten class this year is ALL boys! There were only about six girls in total registered for kindergarten, and rather than split them up three and three (which usually ends up with two kids pairing up and the one being left out) the teachers decided to try putting all the girls in one group and leaving the Tuesday/Thursday as all boys. We'll see if they regret that decision!! ;) I think there's about 15 kids in his class - that's a lot of five year-old boys!

I asked Gavin what his favorite part of the day was, and his answer was "my favorite part was getting to stay for the afternoon too!"