Jenna Montoya waited until the first day of kindergarten to break into her brand new pink sneakers.
"Is kindergarten hard?" she asked her grandmother, Flora Martinez, whom Jenna lives with and calls "mom."
"You'll love it," Martinez replied.
Jenna picks out her socks for her first day of kindergarten.
Jenna packs her own lunch. She is eating a Lunchables chicken nuggets meal. Next week, she will start making her own sandwiches.
Jenna and her brother, Kristopher, head out the door to the bus stop. Jenna is excited but also a bit nervous because her brother's third-grade classroom is in a different building.
Bonus scene: Coloring chameleons on the first day of second-grade
Second-graders Sidney Carter and Jacob Kmoch muse over the art of drawing chameleons on the first day of school. It is also the first day of teaching at Rawlins Elementary School for their teacher, Kada Williams.
