Routines and Play

Day 2 is done and what a great day it was!
We are learning our routines fast.
- almost all home-school folders were brought back
- we know when to stop and listen when Mrs. Young rings the special chime
- we know how to line up after recess
- we have been reading lots of stories!!!!
- we played a hide and seek (find the mouse) game
- we are learning how to share materials around our room
-  we are having FUN!

Time for School!

We are off to a great start!  17 beautiful new students + 1 excited (yet slightly tired) teacher = HAPPY TIMES!

For the next few weeks our focus will be on:

• routines
• each other
• our school community
• our names
• shapes
• counting 

A typical day for us at the beginning of the year looks like this:

• welcome, attendance, gathering take-home folders, lunch count
• discovery (community play in the classroom) - during which children are called individually to sign in for the day
• calendar, morning meeting, review schedule board for the day
• music and movement activity
• story
• recess
• math
• lunch and recess
• literacy activities
• snack
• specials
• writer's workshop
• wrap-up of day, pack up and dismissal

Here are the latest pictures of our room!  ENJOY:

End of summer

It has been an amazing, fun-filled summer!

     - setting up my new classroom

     - transporting my daughter to Oliver rehearsals and helping out for 8 wonderful performances

     - a super-relaxing kayak trip

     - a week long graduate writing class

     - reading lots of professional resources

     - working with local teachers to re-vamp district math assessments

     - another graduate course: Leveled Literacy Intervention

      And now...,,.

A one week trip to Maine! 

Next week, it is back to school for me!   

I just typed up my welcome letter which I will mail out to my kiddos next Monday.

Click on the picture below if you would like a preview.