On our first day of school one of the books we read was First Day Jitters.  This book tells the story of a person who is very nervous about starting school.  At the end of the book it is revealed that the main character is the new teacher.  This led to a lively discussion of how each student felt that morning as they started school and why they felt that way.  Each student then wrote about how they felt on the first day and completed a self portrait of themselves on the first day of school.  We learned that there were many different emotions that our classmates were feeling.  We were excited about meeting new friends, scared to be in a new class, happy to be back in school, and sad that we had to leave our moms and dads.  We discovered that others in our class were feeling the same way.