Across the school district, kindergarteners boarded their buses for the first time ahead of the 2015-16 school year on Tuesday, August 25.

At Middle Gate Elementary School volunteers and teachers were already waiting as students stepped off the buses.

Some older students were also on hand to help guide the kindergarteners from their buses and into the school’s library, where kindergarten teachers Tanya LaBonia, Melissa Massett, Dori Parniawski, and Dorothy Schmidt were waiting to introduce themselves.

As students entered the library, the assembled kindergarteners began singing songs, led by the teachers, including “The Wheels On The Bus.”

Share photos of students waiting for the bus and returning to school on Thursday, August 27, with The Bee for the September 4 print edition of the paper or for a slideshow at newtownbee.com by emailing education reporter Eliza Hallabeck at eliza@thebee.com by Monday, August 31, at 5 pm. Include the names, grades, and schools of the students pictured in the photo.