First Day

We have a new building (beautiful!), a mostly new class (I'm multi grade) and an amazing staff but...I'm still freaking out!  Why do I stress myself out so much before every 1st day of school.  This is my 7th year teaching and I still worry about EVERYTHING!  I'm sure it will all work out just fine, it always does.  However, I can't help but wonder did I plan enough?  Probably too much!  Will I like my class? Of course, I will!  Will the kids like me? I hope so!  Will I have trouble makers?  Of course I will (I met one today!!).  First day jitters for sure...so I'm drinking my glass of wine, and printing off those last few things before I try to go to sleep.  To everyone starting school tomorrow...good luck!  And I can't wait to read all about it!

Postcard Exchange - Still Openings!

Hey everyone! I'm super excited to be participating in a Postcard Exchange this year with Mechele over at Barrow's Hodgpodge. It's going to be a ton of fun and there are still some (12) openings! Click on the picture below to learn more!! Hope to exchange a postcard with you soon :)

Alaska

Delaware

Idaho

Maine

Maryland

Montana

North Dakota

Rhode Island

South Dakota

Vermont

West Virginia
Wyoming

Please share this with your teacher friends, you never know who may want to participate, even if you don't want to!



Postcard Exchange

Hey everyone!  I'm super excited to be participating in a Postcard Exchange this year with Mechele over at Barrow's Hodgpodge.  It's going to be a ton of fun and there are still some openings!  Click on the picture below to learn more!!  Hope to exchange a postcard with you soon :)

Day 16 - 2 pops!

My teaching partner and I saw a super cute end of the year activity on Pinterest. You fill balloons with fun activities for a length of time, we chose the month of May since we get out on the 23rd, and each day your class pops one and does the activity inside. I thought I would write each day about the activity that got "popped." We explained to them that if they were below Green (Ready to Learn) on the clip chart, then they wouldn't be able to participate. Once everyone understood the expectations we were ready to pop...


Today was our last full day of the year.  With our rooms being packed up and the kids being crazy excited for the end of the year, we decided to pop our last two balloons.  First one was "Make a Collage."  It was basically our way of getting rid of all of our magazines and extra construction paper that we didn't want to pack.

The second pop was "Fun Friday, no matter the day."  This was very exciting!  For the kids and for us ;)  We busted out the games (which I left to pack until the very last bell rang).  There was a lot of smiles going on.  

This was the most fantastic idea that Jill and I have had.  It was just as exciting for us to pop the balloons and see what the afternoon had in store as it was for the kiddo's.  We will definitely be doing this or something similar every year.  I hope that you've enjoyed reading about our final month of school and possibly even been able to adapt some of these ideas for your own classrooms.

Have a great last few days (if your not already done)!

Day 15 - Half Pencils

My teaching partner and I saw a super cute end of the year activity on Pinterest. You fill balloons with fun activities for a length of time, we chose the month of May since we get out on the 23rd, and each day your class pops one and does the activity inside. I thought I would write each day about the activity that got "popped." We explained to them that if they were below Green (Ready to Learn) on the clip chart, then they wouldn't be able to participate. Once everyone understood the expectations we were ready to pop...


Today was a half day.  Don't ask me why our last three days are 1/2 day, full day, 1/2 day, but that's what it is and so we dealt with it.  Half days don't leave much room for a whole lot so we thought it would be fun to make it 1/2 pencil day.  Jill's husband works at a golf course, so the 1/2 pencils are free flowing.  This kids had a blast and thought it was funny to have to use 1/2 pencils on a 1/2 day.


Sorry for the lack of a picture, I was out celebrating my 30th birthday!