First Day at School

 

First Day at School Class 2 – Poem Summary

The first day of school is a day of major anxiety for the kid as well as the parents. The kid is surrounded by a lot of questions- how he/she looks, whether he/she will make good friends there at school, how the teacher will be, etc. 

In this Class 2 poem “First Day at School”, the poet Aileen Fisher has brought out the same emotions. The narrator of the poem is a kid who is wondering how his first day of school will be. He/She is thinking about whether or not his/her drawing will be as good as the fellow classmates, whether or not they’ll like him/her.

The purity of a kid’s mind is also evident in the line where he/she wonders if the teacher’s face will look like his/her mom or grandmother. It shows how close the kid is to his/her mom and gran and how he/she thinks of the teacher (a stranger as of now) to be similar to his/her close family members. 

In the final lines of the poem, the kid wonders if his/her dog will miss him at home. The poem beautifully amalgamates a kid’s pain of coming out of his/her comfort zone and anxiety of stepping into a new world. 

Given above is the “First Day at School” poem by Aileen Fisher. We can see the rhyming words in the poem- theirs-stares, gran-am. You can also explore other such exciting poems for your kid by checking the English Poems for Class 2 kids section here.

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