Meet the Teacher Night!

I had a great turn out for meet the teacher tonight! We had 15/18 students show up! It was fabulous meeting all my new students and their families! 

Our USC, intern, Miss Tarlton also started today! She will be doing her student teaching with us and be with us till November! It was great having her extra help today and I'm so glad she was able to stay late and meet all our students and parents too! 

Looking forward to a great year with all my dolphin family!

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2016-2017 School Year

I've never been very good with blogging, but I am going to try again this school year! I love to send out quick email reminders because it's so fast! I'll have to check with my new parents for the new school year and see what they prefer for communication :)

But new supply lists are up for the new school year if any parent would like to check it out :)

Click link below :)


District Supply Lists 2016-2017 School Year

Day 1 set up of my classroom!

We finally got the go ahead yesterday that we could come in and set up our rooms!!! The go ahead I've been waiting for all summer! :) So my fabulous TA and I met at school this morning with 5 kids in tow to get as much as we could accomplished.

 I walked into my classroom looking like this...

Basically just a bunch of stacked boxes and furniture on top of furniture pushed to one side of the room! But I was very lucky this year I got to stay in the same classroom and grade level and we didn't have to take stuff off the wall because there was no painting this summer! So that definitely helped save in set up time! Yay! 

So we worked hard! And 3.5 hours later although we weren't done with everything it looks a lot more like a classroom instead of a storage unit!  Yay! 

Check it out...

My new computer station area will be against that bullentin board we finished today! Still need to add my dividers and the focus board material but we got new fabric and border up! I think I'm going to love my laptops against that wall bc when folded down its easy to see the focus wall! 

Teacher area where my computer will go! 

Landon wanted to be in the pic! My reading center for a little revamp with an additional shelf for books close by! And students personal book bins ready for independent reading! Writing center got cut off in this pic but it's getting a makeover soon so no worries that there are no pics of that! 

House keeping area! 

My teacher area! 

All the tables and chairs are set up too but I may have forgot to take a whole room pic with 5 kids around hehe! But no worries just the beginning ... If you know me there will be more pics to come as I add more to my classroom!

I still have a ton to do but what teacher doesn't? I am just so glad to have the big furniture in place with the help of my wonderful assistant! I mean really who gives up part of their summer to help a teacher set up their room for free??!! :) Dedicated educators that's for sure! So lucky to work with her! 

I'll be back Monday for kinder camp planning and finish setting up! Then Tues-Fri I'll be getting to know all the new little Dolphins during kinder camp for half days! Can't wait to meet all of them! Then I can spend the afternoons working on all the other million things there's left to do in my classroom before school starts. 

I can't believe it's almost back to school time! I sure will miss my summer days with my precious 3 year old daughter and our daily naps!! Now onto these other to do lists! 

Be blessed!

Kindergarten Data notebooks!

Being a Leader in Me school encourages our students to make goals and monitor their own progress!

I am starting a student data notebook for the very first time!

This notebook will allow my students to color or highlight a skill when they master it! I'm so excited to have this for my kids to use! I wanted something simple enough for them to understand and simple enough for me to manage!

My Rice Creek student notebook includes

-sounds and vowels

-letter recognition

-number recognition

-district sight word lists (for Richland Two)

-count to 25, 50, 75,100

-count to 100 by 10s

-sight word challenge 

-name writing

I'm VERY exited to try this! To save room I will be using a simple 3 prong folders!

I also made a general one to sell on tpt which has a few more pages if needed!

Check it out here:

Kindergarten Data Notebook

It's going to be a great year of monitoring data!!! 

we survived the first 3 days of school!!!

Well we did it! We survived the first 3 days of school! We had so much fun getting to know each other and learning our procedures!

We did lots of community building activities and lots of music! This group LOVES TO move it! :)

Overall I was very impressed with this new group of students and how much they already know! I actually can't wait to test them so I can figure out exactly where they are!

This coming week we will spend lots of time learning procedures, rules, the 7 Habits, and building community so the following week I can start testing and we can start to begin a routine!

It's going to be a great year!

flash freebie till midnight only!

FLASH FREEBIE!

Tonight only in my store for these signs!

click here for first day of school sign

Shoe Tying

Is your child struggling with learning to tie their shoe?


Here's a video going around Facebook to help with shoe tying! Check it out! Smart thinking!

Click here for shoe tying video