The secret will be for YOU to be calm, but excited for her.
I also reminded the family not to make too much of a fuss so it would not freak her out.
She is going to do great. Make sure you all participate in any way the school offers for that morning.
At our daughters school all of the kindergartners go straight to the cafeteria, they sit at the table with all of the children that will be going to the same class room. When we arrived there, there were already some children sitting there, so I asked a cute little girl what her name was and then introduced her to our daughter, They sat next to each other.
We told our daughter to have fun and told her we would pick her up right after school. They told the parents to leave the cafeteria and not linger.
Leading up to the first day, we took her up to the school to play on the play grounds. The school had an information day. We went and our daughter was sent to the kindergarten rooms to see the classroom and meet some of the students and a teacher.
We read books about first day of school. There are a ton out there.
I let her pick out her outfit.
She picked out supplies and a back pack.
She told me what she wanted to take in her new lunch box.
We practiced getting up in the mornings getting dressed , eating breakfast and driving to school. So she had the routine down.
Over all my husband and I in no way let her know how nervous we actually were. This seemed to help her. Yes, she was shy, nervous, but also excited about making new friends. Getting to meet her teacher and see her new class room..
We reminded her she would get to play on the playground 2 times a day.
She was going to get to eat out of a lunch box!
She was going to be able to check out books from the SCHOOL library!
When I picked her up, she said she felt like it went too fast! I told her, that is ok, you get to come back tomorrow!