Summer Smetak experiences the excitement and nervousness of her first day going to kindergarten Friday at Langston Hughes Elementary.

photo by: Mike Yoder

Summer Smetak high-fives her mother Kelley Smetak after telling her mother that she was excited about her first day of school. Summer and her mother and her sister Sydney, left, a fifth-grader, all walked to Langston Hughes Elementary Friday.

photo by: Mike Yoder

Summer Smetak puts on her backpack with the help of her mother Kelley Smetak on her first day of kindergarten. Summer her mother and her sister Sydney, a fifth-grader, right, all walked to Langston Hughes Elementary on their first day of school Friday.

photo by: Mike Yoder

Summer Smetak, right, and her sister Sydney, a fifth-grader, walk hand-in-hand to Langston Hughes Elementary followed by their mother Kelley Smetak. Friday was the first day of kindergarten for Summer.

photo by: Mike Yoder

Summer Smetak walks to Langston Hughes Elementary with her sister Sydney, a fifth-grader, on their first day of school Friday.

photo by: Mike Yoder

Summer Smetak's mother Kelley Smetak takes a photograph of her daughter on her first day of kindergarten at Langston Hughes Elementary.

photo by: Mike Yoder

Summer Smetak, center, and her mother Kelley Smetak approach Langston Hughes Elementary on Summer's first day of kindergarten Friday.

photo by: Mike Yoder

In this Journal-World file photo, Summer Smetak holds her mother Kelley Smetak as Summer appears a little nervous on her first morning of kindergarten at Langston Hughes Elementary Aug. 16, 2013. Once in her classroom Smetak smiled and joined in with her classmates.

photo by: Mike Yoder

Summer Smetak, center, holds her teacher Leslie Downing's hand, as she watches her mother Kelley Smetak, background center, leave school on Summer's first day of school as a kindergartener at Langston Hughes Elementary Friday.

photo by: Mike Yoder

Summer Smetak, left, walks with her teacher Leslie Downing, to her classroom on her first day of kindergarten at Langston Hughes Elementary Friday.

photo by: Mike Yoder

Summer Smetak, left, hangs up her backpack n her classroom on her first day of kindergarten at Langston Hughes Elementary.

photo by: Mike Yoder

Summer Smetak, left, explores her classroom on her first day of kindergarten at Langston Hughes Elementary Friday.

photo by: Mike Yoder

Summer Smetak, third from left joins in with her classmates and her teacher Leslie Downing in the song Good Morning To You, on the first day of kindergarten at Langston Hughes Elementary Friday.