Speaker 1: Hello, Billy, what are you up to?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Really, you're practicing for a spelling test. But school hasn't
Speaker 3: even started yet. I see you want to be extra
Speaker 3: prepared for the first day of school tomorrow. Welcome to
Speaker 3: Stories for Kids by Lingo Kids, where we discover fascinating
Speaker 3: facts about the world around us and the fun of
Speaker 3: play learning. Today, the Lingo Kids' friends are preparing for
Speaker 3: the first day of school. Lingo Kids listeners, how do
Speaker 3: you feel about the first day of school? Excited, nervous both.
Speaker 3: Let's check in with Cawie, Lisa, Elliott, and Billy and
Speaker 3: see how they're feeling about that big day.
Speaker 1: Hi Callie, Hi Lisa.
Speaker 2: Are you so for the first day of school? Yes?
Speaker 2: Me too.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to skip skip.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Last year everyone else in pe class could skip except me.
Speaker 2: I kept tripping.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I can't remember that you were more of a tripper.
Speaker 4: Than a skipper, but I practiced skipping all summer and look, Elliott,
Speaker 4: you're a super skipper.
Speaker 2: Ooh, I have an idea.
Speaker 6: We should all skip to school on our first day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we should go.
Speaker 6: Tell Billy to plan. Let's skip.
Speaker 1: Hi, Billy, do you.
Speaker 2: Want to skip to school with us?
Speaker 1: Billy says, no.
Speaker 2: No, dans.
Speaker 7: What's wrong, Billy?
Speaker 2: Do you like the skip?
Speaker 3: Billy says he does like to skip, but he's just
Speaker 3: not that excited about the first day of school. He's
Speaker 3: not feeling very skippy.
Speaker 1: But the first day is.
Speaker 5: The most exciting day. There are new teachers and new
Speaker 5: classes and new books.
Speaker 1: Everything's new.
Speaker 3: You're right, Lisa, there are a lot of new things
Speaker 3: to look forward to on the first day of school.
Speaker 3: It's normal to feel excited, and for some kids, it's
Speaker 3: also normal to feel a little nervous or worried.
Speaker 5: But Billy can't be worried. Billy is really really good
Speaker 5: at school. I mean he can even add two digit.
Speaker 1: Numbers together in his head.
Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, I can't.
Speaker 1: Imagine what he has to worry about.
Speaker 7: Hmmm, maybe we should ask him.
Speaker 1: Good idea, Ellie.
Speaker 7: Billy, are you feeling worried about school?
Speaker 3: Billy says he is feeling a little worried. He's worried
Speaker 3: about spelling.
Speaker 2: What spelling you mean, like spelling words? Yes.
Speaker 3: Billy says that this year he heard there will be
Speaker 3: spelling tests.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 3: I see, sometimes Billy mixes up his letters, so he's
Speaker 3: worried he will get it all wrong.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I don't even know all my letters? How
Speaker 2: why smells?
Speaker 7: Then come out, Billy, I can help you.
Speaker 2: It's spelling. It's easy.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about it. Billy says.
Speaker 3: He is also worried his new teacher won't let him
Speaker 3: bring his calculator.
Speaker 2: What's a cookie?
Speaker 7: Later? I'd love later?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 7: Now, it's fine too.
Speaker 3: Oh. A calculator is not a cookie. It's a tool
Speaker 3: you can sometimes use at school to help with tough
Speaker 3: mouth problems.
Speaker 2: Math problems. That sounds hard, But Billy, you are.
Speaker 1: Really good at math, I see.
Speaker 3: Billy says he's also feeling a little sad because one
Speaker 3: of his friends is in a different classroom this year.
Speaker 7: I don't even know who will be in my class.
Speaker 2: Now I'm feeling worried.
Speaker 7: It's okay, Cowie.
Speaker 5: Everyone stop worrying. Let's just all be excited. Come on,
Speaker 5: we can practice at skimming, Lisa.
Speaker 3: It's okay to feel worried and nervous and excited, sometimes
Speaker 3: all at the same time.
Speaker 5: But I want everyone to only feel happy and excited.
Speaker 2: Just like me.
Speaker 4: Maybe nobody feels exactly the same way.
Speaker 3: That's very true, Elliott, and that's why It's so great
Speaker 3: to share feelings with friends.
Speaker 1: Then they know how you're feeling.
Speaker 7: I like sharing me too.
Speaker 5: Hmm, Okay, I have an idea. Let's all share something
Speaker 5: we are really excited about.
Speaker 7: Or nervous about.
Speaker 1: Great idea. Lingo Kids listeners, you can join too.
Speaker 3: What is one thing you are really excited about for
Speaker 3: the first day of school? Is there anything you feel
Speaker 3: nervous about? You can even pause the podcast to write
Speaker 3: down or draw how you're feeling.
Speaker 1: Wow. Great sharing.
Speaker 3: The Lingo Kids listeners are full of feelings about the
Speaker 3: first day of school.
Speaker 1: What about you, Kelly.
Speaker 7: I am excited to meet my new teacher.
Speaker 1: That is exciting, Cawie.
Speaker 6: I'm also worried my shoelaces will get untied. I haven't
Speaker 6: learned how tied him by myself yet.
Speaker 3: Billy says shoelaces are hard, but he has a trick
Speaker 3: he can teach you.
Speaker 7: Really, Thanks Billy.
Speaker 5: I'd feeling super excited about everything. No except except what
Speaker 5: except waking up early?
Speaker 2: School starts way too early.
Speaker 7: I agree, I need my beauty sleep.
Speaker 3: Billy says he likes to wake up early, but he
Speaker 3: is still worried about the spelling tests.
Speaker 1: He's never done a spelling test before.
Speaker 7: Billy, I bet you'll learn how you're good.
Speaker 2: At learning stuff. That's true.
Speaker 5: You learned how to build that cool model airplane.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and how the tie shoots.
Speaker 3: That's a great point. School is the perfect place to
Speaker 3: learn new things. In fact, that's kind of what it's for.
Speaker 3: If you knew how to do everything already, school would
Speaker 3: be very boring.
Speaker 2: I never thought of that.
Speaker 3: Billy says that sharing his worries actually made him feel
Speaker 3: a little less worried and a little more like skipping hy.
Speaker 7: Just fool me, Billy, I'll show you how.
Speaker 3: Well Lingo Kids listeners today we learned that it's okay
Speaker 3: to have different feelings about the first day of school,
Speaker 3: and that sharing those feelings can actually feel great. Tell
Speaker 3: us how you're feeling by sending us a drawing or
Speaker 3: a note to podcast at Lingo kids dot com.
Speaker 1: We'll try to include it in our next episodes.
Speaker 3: Join us next time to continue play learning together.
Speaker 1: Cowie, are you okay? It's my shoelace skin. Thanks Billy,
Speaker 1: Let's do this thing