FABULOUS 1ST DAY!!!!

Wow-what a wonderful 1st day we had. I am so excited for this year. I can just feel the energy & excitement for learning that these kids have. The great words that I heard echoing in our room today were: "This day is going so fast"-"can stay longer"? "I can't believe it is lunch time already"!! Who would have thought that one as that is usually what kids are asking after the first 10 minutes. Anyway it was superb Day 1 and I know we have many more to look forward to. We had library this morning right at 8:30 and boy did they get organized and ready for that. They have already checked out 2-3 books that they actually got some time to read today if they finished what we were doing early. After library, we unpacked and labeled everything. Have your child tell you what we did with colors to help us find what notebooks we need from our desk for the different subjects. Thank you Kiernan for this wonderful idea as Mrs. Hankins didn't work as well as I expected and I couldn't find 9 different colored sticker dots. We spent a good amount of time talking about expectations and our 2 classroom Guidelines for Success (rules). See if they can remember what they are. Hint: 2 R words. Then we discussed the fake money. Oh this was fun. They are excited for it, but were surprised at how I am relating it to the real world. Like one student asked: "Seriously, you are making us pay rent for our desk"? My response, "Of course, your parents have to make a house payment right"!! See the attached sheet of my newsletter for the details on this one. This afternoon we read one of my favorite picture books, The Kissing Hand and did the fun little activity that you should have hanging on your refrigerator and I look forward to the pics you will send to school to go along with that. Also, we made friendship salad this afternoon. Have your child what we did and what the fruit, yogurt, and marshmallows represented and how it relates to our TEAM!!! I know I said I was going to pose a question in the blog for your child to answer as part of the nightly discussion of what we did in school, but we didn't get our Assignment Notebooks yet as they are on order. So that question will start when we get them. PARENT/CHILD HOMEWORK TONIGHT: Yes, please take time to read through and discuss all the contracts/permission slips with your child. They get $50/sheet tomorrow if they are signed and returned tomorrow. WOW-that is $350!!! Well as you can see, we had a great day and I look forward to tomorrow. Have a great night.