Second Day of School

Monday, August 4, 2014

We had another outstanding day again today.  The children could not be better!  I woke up anxious and excited to see them all this morning.  No tears or whining at all.  Can you believe it??  I'm sure I'll have a post soon titled "The Honeymoon Is OVER"  haha.  For now though, I am thankful for the good times.

We jumped right in to our regular schedule today.  Math seemed to take foooorrrrrrever.  Between passing out new math notebooks, labeling these with our name, learning how to do sprints, number bonds, making 10 frames,.....whew, I was worn out by 9:30.  The kids were troopers though.  This math curriculum is fast and rigorous.  But, our kids will become much stronger mathematicians by the end of the year.  (Hang on parents :)

Next we took a little break for one of my favorite things.......reading.  Each student got their own book box.  They decorated these and selected 3 books from our classroom to keep in their own box.  We have sooo many books in our room that you could literally spend 20 minutes just trying to find one you want to read.  So, we have these books boxes already filled with books we want to read. Once a week the kids can go shopping for new books - kinda like our own library of sorts.  The kids like it and I do too!  When the kids get done with their work early, they can just grab their box and open up a good book.

Then it was on to spelling.  Taking spelling tests are a rite of passage for a first grader.  We practiced how to color, sort and glue our words in our notebooks based on the spelling patterns.  They did a great job with this.  Tomorrow we will write our words rainbow style.

By now we are getting hungry for lunch and our energy is waning.  Lunch was great but I do have to ask....."Who decided that pudding cups should be super glued closed?"  Seriously, do they not have a test market of consumers of pudding to try taking these tops off??????  Not to mention how tempting it is for a starving, stress eating teacher to be tortured by smelling that delicious chocolate and vanilla flavored pudding.  

After lunch the kids shared their "All About Me" bags.  PRECIOUS!  I always love to see what the children decided to bring in to share.  I can tell I have some future athletes and inventors.  After we shared these we worked on our Learn About Me posters.  You will have to come to the parent orientation on Thursday night to see the finished products.

PE and recess concluded our day.  Quite honestly I was glad because I was running out of steam.  But, as we were getting ready to go home a sweet little one said,  "Mrs. Montgomery, I don't want to go home.  I want to stay here with you at school."

Warms my heart every time.

Mrs. Montgomery