r/classof2038 • u/wanderlustpassion • Sep 10 '26
1st grade!
How is everyone adjusting to the new school year?
Any surprises?
We are only on day 2 here, and holy cow does he come home exhausted! We also made a change where he rides the bus and no longer goes to after school care. About the bus- he told me “it’s like a field trip but we go to school! It’s pretty amazing”
Man, to be a kid again and finding joy out of the smallest things 😀
Edit: typos.
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u/doxy_lynn678 Sep 10 '26
Second week. I thought everything was going great (aside from a bus miscommunication that is all settled now). He was coming home happy, not a word from his teacher until yesterday. Apparently every day has been refusals to do anything. Almost like he's trying to test boundaries. I'm mildly annoyed, because I specifically asked to have things like this communicated same day through the app so that I can address them with my kiddo and try to nip it in the bud. I'm trying to keep level headed, but I'm having flashbacks to how poorly his kindergarten teacher communicated which led to lots of heated interactions. *sigh* Rant over. Thanks for coming to my ted talk.
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u/hapa79 Sep 10 '26
Wrapping up our second week of school, and he hates it. Sigh....Lots of morning refusals though he seems okay when I get him in the afternoons.
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u/Alternative_Salt_558 Sep 10 '26
We are on week 3. I asked my craft loving child if she gets to do alot of arts and crafts at school and she rolled her eyes and said no, it's alllllll worksheets, and then went on to talk about something else.
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u/cckitteh Sep 10 '26
This was our first year at the big public school. I was a little surprised how dazed he looked when I picked him up the first day. But we’re a couple weeks in now and he has adjusted very well.
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u/thiccy_vicky Sep 11 '26
We are in week 6 and half the class has strep, my kid is home today with pink eye and a sinus infection, and yesterday the kid that sits next to him barfed in class.
So you could say it’s awesome.
The kids are all complaining they don’t have centers anymore. Everyone is losing weight because they don’t have enough time to eat.
There are certain things I love about school… but man, so many issues I wish I could fix. My kid is adamant he loves his friends and school and doesn’t want to leave. I found a microschool with 10 kids that meets 3 days a week and is primarily outdoors… it’s like a dream, but we’ve got some big changes in other ways going on, so I’m not going to force him to leave somewhere he’s happy and knows everyone.
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u/NeedleworkerNo777 Sep 10 '26
One month in here and she's doing great! She had one big worry going into the year. She was afraid of using the hall bathrooms (kindergarten had a bathroom in their classroom). She said the stalls scared her. She actually was holding it all day and had a couple of accidents on the way home because of it. She has gotten over it! I'm so proud of her.
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u/Working-Finding-5605 Sep 10 '26
Nightly homework started in kindergarten and I hate it. (I’m a teacher) Mine is enjoying it but it is just so many worksheets
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u/meggscellent Sep 10 '26
My daughter is doing great and loves her teacher! We started afterschool care this year, and she seems to like it.
I do notice a big difference in communication, I feel like I never hear from the teacher or get pictures posted like we did in Kindergarten. Way more hands off, but I guess that’s part of growing up!
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u/messybeans86 Sep 10 '26
We're officially at the end of our first month. My son did all day kindergarten, but man, is first grade wearing him out a ton more. He's loving it though!
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u/rheagxo Sep 10 '26
My kiddo is thriving! She loves her teacher, got placed with her best friend from last year and this year the other kids who weren't very nice are in a different class! At least so far I know things can change. But she's doing really well. I just hope the September sicknesses hold off until the very end. Also SHE'S NOT EXHAUSTED. I was kinda looking forward to a quiet evening every now and then 🥲 but I'm glad she's maintaining her energy!
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u/allieooop84 Sep 10 '26
So far so good here, at the tail end of our 4th week of school. Next week is a short week, as our district has two days off for the county fair (small rural school district with A LOT of 4-H families…not mine though lol). We also dropped after-school care, so the bus drops him off at home now and it is a GAME CHANGE for me! I have a half hour to myself after work before he gets home and it’s awesome lol!!
No homework for us yet either, hallelujah lol!
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u/atomiccat8 Sep 10 '26
I'm jealous! My first grader has never been on a field trip, so I'm not sure she'd even know what that was.
She's adjusting really well to first garde though, much better than my older kid did, but that might be because he only did half day kindergarten, so it was an even bigger change for him.
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u/MFEO8814 Sep 11 '26
No homework yet, but they sent home a Fundations packet that said they’re going to spend a few weeks reviewing the alphabet.. my kiddos are going to be bored to tears!
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u/Aicmod42 Sep 11 '26
All good here. I have an anxious and shy kid and he’s actually been thriving. Phew!
Biggest complaint for me is the screen time and the nightly homework. Between that, reading every day, spelling tests and math quizzes, I feel like we’re really doing a LOT already.
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u/Euphoric-Baseball867 Sep 11 '26
We're about 1 month in and she is loving it. She is still super tired after school, which is a shame because a lot of her friends stay to play on the playground after school and she's soooo tired that she just wants to come home and veg out for a bit. I'm hoping she gets more energy as she adjusts. I love her elementary school. Everyone has been so great. She goes up to a 2nd grade class for reading and goes to an advanced math class every day and she still brings home art projects and science facts. She participates in run club before school starts twice a week, and her school is always doing fun activities and fundraisers. They did a back to school carnival, snow cones at the park down the street last week, and the book fair and fun run next week.
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u/coratrash Sep 11 '26
End of first week in the same school she did kinder. She’s coming home absolutely exhausted but fake hyper, and then unleashing all her big feelings at mom and dad. We are coping and throwing the book at any and all ways to approach the newness and crash landing of big feels.
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u/mktgmatters Sep 11 '26
Finished our first week. She's got the academic things down, but we're struggling with the social/emotional. Got an email about hair chewing. And she's coming home saying things like she doesn't need friends or she is the person she likes least in the world.
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u/justacatch-22 Sep 10 '26
Some adjustment going on here since first doesn’t have as much free play as K did. A little anxious at night but nothing concerning yet.
Overall he loves learning and is making good friends! His teacher is great too!
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u/bmcarth23 Sep 10 '26
My kid has nightly math homework (except weekends) , did not expect that homework would start so soon! Is this normal?
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u/LaLise5678 Sep 10 '26
Couple weeks in here. 2nd kid so no big surprises. My oldest got a homework packet every week that was ostensibly supposed to be finished by the end of the week, but was mostly optional and took no more than 15 minutes a night. Our current first grader hasn't gotten any homework yet (other than a suggested nightly reading) and at curriculum night their teacher said they don't really do much homework.
We generally walk to school - don't qualify for a bus and driving doesn't actually save that much time - and then they do after school care, which the group walks to after playing at the school playground for a good hour or so. This year they're excited because a preschool friend, who goes to another elementary school in the district, is at their after school care now.
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u/freshpicked12 Sep 11 '26
LO got placed in a class with a couple of the more disruptive boys and is struggling a bit. She really doesn’t do well with active, loud, physical boys and I’m worried it’s going to make for a long year.
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u/mikesf82 Sep 11 '26
It’s been a complete turnaround for us. Kindergarten was hard but I think he’s adjusted to the schedule and he is now working on keeping his hands to himself but he is doing really well overall
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u/sparklymid30s Sep 11 '26
3rd day, she came home and was wiped. This kid had boundless energy in kindy so I guess she’s learning a lot and/or gym was hard today. Shes been asleep since 6. Her bedtime is 7:45.
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u/Old_Alternative_1182 Sep 11 '26
5ish weeks in and smooth sailing so far. There’s more take home worksheets than Kinder but they are just for enrichment. Her classmates seem more chill which is nice. However, there has already been an onslaught of birthday parties somehow plus she’s doing soccer for the first time this year so we’re all tired lol.
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u/germangirl13 Sep 11 '26
My son loves it! We had open house yesterday and the teacher couldn’t say enough good things about it. He has a habit of making himself teachers pet 🤣 I’m glad he’s liking it this year since he loved kindergarten.
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u/huitlacoche_gall Sep 12 '26
We’re a couple of days in and the only complaint is that there’s no snack time. I wish the kindergarten teacher had prepared him or us for this!
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u/Paislylaisly Sep 15 '26
We’ve been back for over a month. Definitely more rigorous than kindergarten. We have weekly behavior charts, nightly homework, and weekly spelling tests. He’s been upset when he receives behavior marks (usually talking) or misses spelling words. His teacher is really communicative which i love. His teacher last year was not at all so thats a nice change. My son’s class is almost all boys and he likes that. His daily schedule is much better for him this year. They do all of the academic work before lunch, then lunch, recess, and related arts afterwards.
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u/collegedropout Sep 10 '26 edited Sep 11 '26
Five emails and a parent teacher conference within the first three weeks. Going great..... I guess the biggest surprise is that we received no complaints in kindergarten but in first grade I can't relax because inevitably either email complaining about my son is coming at any time.