"How was school, Ben?" I asked my    after he began kindergarten(幼儿园)  this year. "The work is too           and there's not enough time to play." he replied with a deep           .
I couldn't help but remember Ben's mother. my daughter, Jane, and her          to the first day of school. When Julie          home that afternoon. I asked her the same question . She also replied with a long,           face but her answer was a little different as she announced . " I didn't learn to        today."
What a disappointment for a little girl who thought  she would        know how to read her little books after the first day of school. I had to explain to her that she would         learn to read but didn't happen quite that fast.
My         went back to my school days again I could almost          the chalk dust in the air. I suppose few schools still use chalk and blackboards. They have probably been          with newer equipment and large computer screens
On the first day of school, the expectation was s0       that I would be up early in the morning and          long before it was time to leave for school We  .        about 6 blocks to school          new shoes that felt tight and carried our small supplies inside a cigar box from one of the local stores. The stores must have saved cigar boxes just to give to us children .We         them from year to year until they fell apart.
The first day of school was a new beginning, although there might be        on the first day. The doors of knowledge had been opened and we      great learning adventures. It is an     in our lives that most of us remember. It's a big step for a small child toward leaving babyhood and so  "there isn't enough time to play".

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