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First day of first grade yesterday and Mr. Boy had homework! Took about twenty minutes. Amounted to printing his letters (the vowels), repeating a short, memorized poem about school, and having a book about school read to him. I noticed several mistakes in his letters, but we have decided to let the teacher handle the accuracy. I did insist that he hold his pencil correctly, and read the book to him. I suppose some young parents have less time to read to their children, hence the school’s approach. I also started volunteering again, as last year with kindergarten. Last year it was pulling weeds in the flowerbeds around the school and helping judge the science fair. Yesterday, I cut eighty used tennis balls for the legs of the chairs in Mr. B’s classroom (20 chairs x 4 legs each) and have more to do this morning for the extra chairs. Apparently the tennis balls cut down on the noise in the classroom of scooting chairs back and forth.