{"id":19880,"date":"2013-08-19T14:06:21","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T18:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=19880"},"modified":"2013-08-19T17:01:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T21:01:09","slug":"back-to-school-scenes-from-across-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/08\/19\/back-to-school-scenes-from-across-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"Back-To-School Scenes From Across Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a long, humid summer, kids across the state are waking up and getting ready to go back to school this week.<\/p>\n

One of those students, 16-year-old Keri Grigas, started her junior year at South Broward High School this morning. Listen to her bus-stop interview with us from this morning:<\/p>\n\n

Keri later met up with us at the bus stop after school to tell us how the day went:<\/p>\n\n

\"Keri<\/a>

Sammy Mack \/ StateImpact Florida<\/p>

Keri Grigas started her junior year on Monday.<\/p><\/div>\n

For your reading pleasure, we\u2019ve also rounded up a few more of our favorite small moments from the big day back. Feel free to share your own in the comments.<\/p>\n

The Miami Herald tagged along<\/a> with an upbeat elementary schooler.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The sun had barely risen, but Gillian Pons, donning pink shoes, a golden uniform top and a blue hair ribbon to match her shoelaces, was already feeling chipper about the morning ahead.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a great day!\u201d said the 9-year-old as she walked with her family en route to Cypress Elementary, where the first day of fourth grade awaited.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In Central Florida, City Year volunteers tried to energize<\/a> their students.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Get loose. Get funky. Get started with your knees!” chanted Will Phillips, the leader of the team, whose members will focus on mentoring students in third-grade and above to approve attendance, academics and behavior at the D-rated, low-income school.<\/p>\n

“If I can get the to dance with us, I can hopefully get them to improve their grades as well,” Phillips said. “It takes the whole school to keep students excited.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In Plantation, Anjan Joshi had a glass half full this time around<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I feel very happy, it’s not that depressing this time,” said Anjan,\u00a0a fourth-grader at\u00a0Nova Eisenhower Elementary in Davie.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Tampa Bay Times captured beginning butterflies\u2014in a teacher<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the pre-kindergarten classroom at Sanderlin Elementary School in St. Petersburg, the teacher was as nervous as the students.<\/p>\n

“I put a lot of pressure on myself to do things perfectly,” said Ashley Cooley, 23, of her first-full-time teaching job. “Since I woke up this morning, nervous, I’ve been drinking lots of water and taking nice slow breaths.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And a brave kindergartner found her place<\/a> in a classroom in Escambia County.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Across the room, Aysha Rembert, 5, settled in at a table with two other kids.<\/p>\n

Aysha said she is excited about starting school.<\/p>\n

“I want to listen to my teacher like a big girl,” she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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