Tomorrow is the big day

Orientation and Meet and Greet went great!  I have such a wonderful group of boys and girls. I got to meet everyone in my class except for two students. I found that I was not as nervous this year. Hopefully the more experience I get teaching the easier orientation will become. Working with such a great group of women helps also. Knowing that some of them are still nervous and they have taught a lot longer than I have makes me feel better. Having them to help me and give me advice is wonderful. I am a very lucky lady to get to teach children here at APS! I can't wait to blog about how my first week of school went. I hope a lot of my other teacher friends blog about it too. Hearing some of those stories makes me smile.  Hope everyone has a wonderful first day!

The wonderful group of Ladies I work with.

Back to school we go

Today has been a wonderful return back to school. I always love this time of year. I love getting to see my coworkers again and prepare for a another group of sweet boys and girls. My classroom is complete. I am not in love with the way it looks but it will do for now. This week I am going to be preparing for orientation and meet and greet. I also have some professional development to do. I am always reminded during this time how blessed I am to have a job and blessed to get to be in these children's lives.

Important reminders:

Please remember to purchase your Aggie Packs. The cost is $80.00 and it includes everything your child will need throughout the school except for field trip.

Orientation for second grade Thursday August 16th 7:00-8:15. *For parents only!

Meet and Greet for second grade  Friday August 17th 10:30-11:30.


Here are some pictures of the last projects I have done in my classroom. I hope everyone has a great school year! I can't wait for this year to begin :)

"Owl" work

Added Polka dot fabric to my bookshelves

Small area/ my area

Behavior Management

Thanks Amy Hope for the template

Added this to my writing station

Grant Writing Success!

This past school year, Myself along with the APS grant writing team wrote a technology grant. We wrote them in hopes of having 18 ipads funded. We sent them to our local Representatives and our Senator. We sent three grant. If all of them were funded we would have 18 ipads. Before school was out I got word from Representative Rich that he would love to fund our AATI grant!! I am still talking to Senator Scofield about funding the project. The grant writing team is very excited about the six ipads we have coming our way. We are going to put the on a cart so teachers can wheel them in their room  and use them in a center or at small group. We will have to split them between first and second grade. Also, My sweet parents heard me talking about how great an Ipad would be for my classroom. They surprised me last week with my own personal one. I have great parents!!! We hope to get the six Ipads at the beginning of the year.

I can't believe it is almost August!! I have been working in my room a lot, but  I still have a ways to go.

Here are some updated pictures to show my progress!!

My Personal IPad!!

 I used my back counter for a writing/listening station

I love teachers pay teachers!

Picture taken from my door. It is coming together!

My First Award

I am very excited! I was awarded the Liebster Blog Award by Brigid from Brigid's Daily Lesson Log! It makes me happy to know that there are other teachers out there that support me and that take a peek at my blog. Go over and check out Brigid's website and her good ideas.

This award highlights blogs that have under 200 followers.

Here are the rules:

1. Copy and paste this award on your blog.

2. Thank the giver and link back to them.

3. Reveal 5 other bloggers and let them know by commenting on their blog

Here are the 3 bloggers I am awarding today

Ashlie- Just Another Day in K

Heather- Living the Dream A teacher Blog

Wendy- APS Reading Blog

Sorry guys I could only think of three. Most of the blogs I follow have a lot more than 200 followers!



Changing it up...

This whole week I have been very busy in my classroom. It takes a small Army to get  classroom together. Just ask my Husband,  he is part of that Army. He built some AWESOME pallet bookshelves for my room. I am in love with them and they look great in my classroom library. I had decided to keep the polka dot theme from last year and throw in some owls and the chevron pattern. Our teacher work days are August 13-17. I am hoping to be done with my classroom then so that week in August I can work on beginning of school orientation and activities. Here are some updated pictures from my room. It is coming together :)

This was before my library was completed

Love the bookshelves though

New piece I picked up for just $80.00!

I love the chevron pattern

New Focus Wall 

Learned the trick to use paper plates :)

New School Year

Now that  July Fourth has passed, I feel it is time for me to get busy in my classroom. I have decided to use on owl theme in my classroom this year. I have been able to find many things that are owl themed. Also, I have found Pinterest to be very helpful in the creative ideas department. I have not done a lot in my classsroom yet, but I have been working at home on different projects. Here are a few pictures of things I have gathered and some projects I am working on. I can't wait for my owl classroom to come together.

A friend made this for me. It will hang outside of my room

Working on a stool to have at our meeting area

 Here is what the finished project will look like

Use pizza pans to display who is in what station each day

Here is the inspiration for the project.

Field Day

We had an awesome time at Field day! The kids loved the Olympic theme. We were all very tired at the end of the day though. I think the kids loved the water games the best. I even got a little wet myself. Here are some pictures from our Field day.

Team Canada

Passing the Hula Hoop while holding hands. It was kinda hard

It was time to get dizzy!!

Her face says it all... WE HAD FUN!

Playing on the Playground

We've got spirit yes we do!!

Filling a bucket with water using a sponge. They loved this one.

Always exploring nature....

We were wore out by the end of the day!