>>Our five year old is having somewhat a difficult time adjusting to all day kindergarten.<<
Pull her out and homeschool her.
There is no need to send her there.
Maryland’s homeschool laws are easy. It’s a state with moderate regulation: State requires parents to send notification, test scores, and/or professional evaluation of student progress. (from HSLDA)
My daughter had the same thing happen. I spend the big bucks for erasable colored pencils that ended up in the “share bin”. I walked in the next day to get them but they weren’t there. I told the teacher that I expected them back in my hand by that evening. Either she got them back from the kid that she “shared” to or on her lunch she could drive to Walmart and get another set. If neither could be done, I expected the 5.00 in my hand (they were a brand new product and pricey).
I had them in my hand at 3:30 and in a year and a half my daughter was homeschooled.
I’m not going to put up with theft.
I am definitely going to look into this and research it. All day kindergarten is just too long. My two older kids went to 1/2 a day. It was long enough to get adjusted to a school environment and learn some things. By the time they started getting tired, it was time to go home. All day... little ones are expected to be great even when extremely tired. I think it is nuts.