Monday, August 29, 2011

one week down... apparently 174 days left?

...or so I've been told by another co-worker who is sadly counting down already (she's got some challenges this year).

I have a great group of kiddos this year--little chatty, but I'm hoping we'll break that soon. We're currently on the every-other-day-we'll-control-our-talking-and-get-our-work-done stage. This year is a little different because we have ::Gasp:: breakfast in the classroom. Anyone out there in blog world currently do that?!? It's nice to have the kids come into the room in a controlled manner but at the same time 7:30 is waaaay to early to have kids in the room. I'm having trouble actually getting things done before they get in the room (and I arrive at 6:50 everyday!)

Last week we did some fun things--none of which I took pictures of :(  I used a lot of ideas from different blogs out there (monster glyphs with slight changes, first week of school book, etc.) to change things up for me. Three years of the same-ish stuff was getting a bit old for me. Tomorrow I will introduce our new math tubs (wish me luck). Tried to get to it today, but my kids just wanted to be sleepish through our Brainpop, Jr pictograph video/discussion. (HOW STRANGE! They were sleeeepy this AM). They sure did wake up when we did our shoes that tie/shoes that don't tie picture graph. They got a hoot out of taking one shoe off for the graph--and then walking around while we collected data for a graph about who can tie/who can not tie shoes. So tomorrow we will attempt the tubs. It will be oh-so fun! :)

Quote of the day: "I have the turkey!" Roxanne, holding up her 'T' apple from our scavenger hunt. (I hid apples with the ABCs around the room and was trying to convince a sweet baby that the apples got off my desk and came up missing while I was eating my turkey for lunch)


1 comments:

Heather's Heart said...

I teach in Lufkin,Texas and this is our 1st year of Breakfast in the Classroom but our kiddos don't come to the room until 7:45. Check out my blog for some activities to help with the TPRI! :)

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