I'm going to join the list of 1st/2nd here.

Our dd starts first next week. She'll be the youngest in her class, since we avoided the cut-off with private K. She'll be 6 in September.

It sounds like the school is changing their schedule to make easier to accommodate ability grouping in Language Arts. Yay! They've already done a reading assessment, and they re-assess each child at the beginning of the year.

She gets to meet her new teacher tomorrow. I've heard good things.