First Week

Our first week of school was a lot of fun. During the staggered start days, we read the story of The Gingerbread Man and then we hunted for him all around the school. This helped the students learn where different places in the school were and what they were called as well as practicing walking in line and of course, having fun :) At the end of the hunt, we ate gingerbread man cookies and played on the playground for the first time.

We made the above gingerbread man glyph in small groups and also did a gingerbread man writing activity (now hanging in the hallway outside the classroom).

On Thursday and Friday we read the book The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn. We made our own raccoon out of paper hearts and learned how to graph pictures from the story that we spun on a spinner. The students also got to try out many of the puzzles and blocks and toys in the classroom while learning how to participate in centers.

I have many pictures from our gingerbread man hunt that I can't wait to upload to our classroom photo share site on Shutterfly. I am just waiting for a couple more Public Release Forms to be turned in before I can do so. Thanks to all of those that got them back to me already!

I am looking forward to next week. Look for some a homework project being sent home on Monday.

Meet the Teacher Day

Meet the Teacher Day was Thursday morning and it went so well! It was so nice that so many students and parents were able to make it and I could tell already that the students were having fun and starting to get comfortable in the classroom.

I took some photos of the classroom when it was all set-up for Meet the Teacher. If you have any family members that couldn't make it and would like to see what the classroom looks like, just click on the link for Photos/Videos.

This page will also include a link to our classroom Shutterfly Share Site. Those of you that gave me your email addresses have already been added as members of the site. If you would still like to be added, just send me an email and let me know :)

Tomorrow begins the first day of staggered start. I am very excited about the first week of school and getting to know all my new students.