MISQUAH — The two kindergarten sections at Oakview went to full days this morning after three half days last week — thirty-one children between them, the largest kindergarten in the district in some years, in Rooms 2 and 3.

Kara Lindvall, who has the Room 2 section and is in her fourth year, said the half days did exactly what half days are for. “They come for three hours, they find out where the bathroom is, they find out I am not going to yell at them, and they go home before anybody falls apart,” she said. “Today they stay for lunch. Lunch is the real first day.”

Full days bring the afternoon rest period, which begins this afternoon and which Lindvall describes as the single hardest twenty minutes of a kindergarten teacher’s September. “They have never been asked to be quiet on purpose before,” she said. “By October they are good at it. In September it is a negotiation, and they are better negotiators than I am.”

Enrollment at thirty-one is up three from last year and follows the June arrivals of two years ago, a figure Superintendent Dale Brandt has now mentioned twice and twice asked not to be made too much of. The two sections split at sixteen and fifteen. Both rooms had every name card laminated and on a table before Wednesday.

Down the hall, the bulletin board outside Room 6 — blank on purpose since July, as it is every August — was filled Friday afternoon with third-grade drawings of a house: four houses, nine houses with a lake behind them, eleven with an animal in front, six that are not houses in any sense their teacher can defend, and one that is a boat.