Birthday Pencils

It's been a whole week and my classroom is almost done :)

Last year I was hired one week before school started and didn't have a chance to go through what was in the room. I foolishly thought I'd stay after school one day and see what was there. Ha! That never happened. I decided to use my last week of summer break (so sad) to go through the room. I trashed so many old things! I feel so much better about starting this year!

Tomorrow we go back and have our teacher welcome ceremonies and all of the paperwork stuff we need to take care of. Then we get some time in our rooms. My classroom is so close to being done and ready for the kiddos to arrive! Tomorrow afternoon I should also be getting my "official" class list. Official in quotes because there's always those students who register on the first day and just show up at your door. Tons of fun! Tomorrow I'll also be taking pictures of my classroom to post! I'm super excited about my set up this year!

Today I finished my birthday balloons for the kiddos! Last year I used printed birthday balloons and attached them to crazy straws! They were much like the ones on pinterest using pixi sticks.  This year, thanks to Crayons and Curls, they look like this!!! 

 

I attached them to color changing birthday pencils from smilemakers.com

I think the kiddos are really going to like them :)

Setting Up!

Today I headed into set my classroom! What a mess!!! Desks were piled up in the middle of the room! Shelves were moved all over the room! Rugs were piled up on top of stuff....correction, rugs that weren't mine! Crazy Crazy Crazy!!!!

Here are some photos so you can assess the damage!

This is what I walked into!!!

Then I walked to the other side of the room and thought WOW! My room looks so big!!!

That's when I noticed the shelves with a different teacher's rug!!!! Yikes! I better find out who it belongs to!!!

After a few hours of work and some not so choice words (evil wonderful computers) my room now looks like this!!! Not so big any more :(

All of my furniture is set up....now I just need to go through everything and organize it a bit better. Right now I have books and math supplies strewn all over the place!!! That'll be tomorrow's task!

A Time For Firsts

As a first year teacher I have stumbled upon the wonderful world of blogs!!! I just love going to other teacher's blogs to get ideas for my classroom. As a first year teacher of first graders I was a little overwhelmed by the fabulous things I see other teachers creating. As my first year progressed I realized I'm just as creative as these teachers, I just need to figure out how to use the right programs. So the first step to figuring it all out was to create my first blog!!! And here it is....with my first post! This summer I plan to sit down and figure out how to create amazing lessons for TPT. Hopefully the summer will open up a bit more time for me to do so. Wow, that was quite a lot of firsts! Now for my first good-bye!