It is FINISHED!!!

My room is done. I put the final touches on it today. I just need to add my students' names to my bulletin board on t-shirts & hang them on the clothes line. I hung the window curtain that my Mother-in-law so graciously made. I also arranged some throw pillows (lets hope they don't actually get thrown) & a couple of bird's nests (thanks again Gretchen!!). I LOVE it. I also had a couple of my very good friends stop by. They brought their kids. I loved watching them in my classroom. I think they O.K.'d it & I passed the kid inspection. I also picked up Carson & Lauren a bit early and brought them to see it. Carson was SO excited. I took him by a K-5 class where he proceeded to give it his O.K. He talked about it all afternoon. So, here's to another great year....minus all the old comforts of home (WES). Most of you will understand that!

Enjoy the pics...it could be a while before I post again. My life is about to get VERY busy...at least until Christmas. 135 days till my next big break...but who's counting??

Project...

While out shopping for back to school items, I found some really cute wood die-cuts (well that is what I call them). They had an example in the store so I had an idea how to paint them. This is what I ended up with. It took me about 3 hours to complete. I think I am going to gorilla glue some of them to the end of paint stirrers and use them for classroom pointers. The others will be made into magnets. I love the camouflage canoes. I also love the frogs. I should add that our theme this is, "At the Creek, Where Learning Comes Naturally". Our school is Abner Creek for those of you who may not know that. My next project is for Lauren's room. We will be working on turning it into a big girl room...I will post that as soon as I get around to it! I also finished up my room, but forgot my camera. I will post some pics of all my boards, etc. when I get a chance!

Who knew??

OK, so who knew that I would have a monster baby whose feet would grow like weeds overnight! Last night I realized that Lauren's shoes seemed to be getting to tight! I took her and Carson today to get some new school shoes and would you believe that her feet have grown 2 1/2 sizes!!!!! I felt so bad that she just kept walking around in her oh so cute pink Keens not even complaining. Well, this is the girl who never cried once with a ruptured ear drum...so what can I say? Lesson learned--I am buying one of those foot "sizers" to keep at home so my tiny princess is not like one of the Cinderella stepsisters trying to squeeze her foot into oh so tiny shoes! ;)

Here are her very cute tennis shoes...*sigh* guess we need some dressy ones now!

I can tie my shoe

Carson learned to tie his shoes today...well, my shoes! Way to go Carson!!!!

My new room...

Since so many of you have not been able to see my new room, I thought I would take some pictures and post them. It is still messy, but you get the idea. I can say that I am going to miss my old school. My old principal and Asst. principal came by the school today and i got a little sad... The people I worked with were amazing. I made so many friends there and it was really hard to leave, but every book has many chapters. It was time to begin a new chapter. You just know when it is time to try something new. I am excited and ready for a great beginning.

View from my Literacy Center
View from the front of the room
View from the hallway doorView from the bathroom door
Standing at my computer
My Literacy Center My computer area and Writing Center

A few pics from the weekend

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Random....

Well, I can't load any pictures for some reason so I thought I would post about my day. I got to work in my new room today!!! I AM EXHAUSTED. My friend Amy and I moved @36 tables and even more chairs. It seems that there was a mix up and we had 2nd grade tables in our rooms. So, not wanting to wait around for maintenance to move them (who knows how long that would take) we decided to move all 4 rooms! After spending all summer NOT being able to work, we were not going to let anything get in our way!

I have my room mostly arranged and almost unpacked! Woohooo! We have about 19 children each. I am hoping that is it for the year....that is way to many for first grade in my opinion. BUT, we only have 4 teachers...so I guess I better find somewhere to put another table.

I will be back again tomorrow morning to hopefully finish unpacking and move on to...Calendar!