Last Day of Summer!

The past two weeks have been stressful but productive!! Starting your own classroom from scratch is much harder than it looks and extremely time consuming. BUT thanks to my family and fellow coworkers (especially Tammy!!! - the other first grade teacher) my room is finally coming together!! It's actually starting to look like a classroom now ;) Can't wait to show y'all updated photos! But of course I have to wait til it's fully finished!

Kristin helping me in my classroom!! Making sure all the puzzles had every piece :)

Sneak peak of my bulletin boards before they were covered!

Passes I made for my classroom!!! I'm super proud of these :))) (Sorry for the lack of picture rotation!)

I painted some old black night stands and pushed them together for my small group table :)

My sweet pups helped me 'finger paint'.  Each of their pawprints and w initials is on the table to incorporate my dog theme :)

Tammy and I also tested some kids today to see if they're eligible for enrollment. One of them was my future first grader! He was absolutely adorable, polite, and not to mention as bright as a light bulb.  I knew he'd be a great addition to my classroom as soon as we told him to write any sentence he wanted, and he wrote: "I have a dog." And proceeded to talk about how much he loved his two pups at home. I just wanted to snatch him up and take him home w me right then and there!! Of course, I don't think his mom would appreciate that very much...I guess I'll have to wait another week to work with him! :) 

And finally, my inservice starts tomorrow! Can't wait to get started (well, actually I could!...not enough hours in a day), and get to know my coworkers a little better at our retreat. And although we'll have meetings this week, we'll also have a good amount of time to work in our classroom!! Props to my principal ;) Sunday afternoon I'll get to meet the parents at orientation, and next Monday I get to finally meet my sweet first graders! Can't wait to get started! Let the countdown and prayers begin!! ;)

Also...good luck to all of my teacher friends in my cohort who either started school today or are getting ready to soon! You girls will be great!!! :)  Here's to our first year of teaching and about 45 more years til retirement! ;)