A New Year!

Today was the first day of the 2013-2014 school year. A full day of meetings, a couple of hours of last minute things to do, and an hour of Meeting the students and their families! What a day. I met 17 out of 19 of my students and their families. Several students were siblings of previous students. I always enjoy having siblings and cousins. Tomorrow is a work day. I have 3 children who are choosing to go by a different name than what their parents wrote at enrollment. So I have a few things to change tomorrow. There will be a lot of organizing tomorrow, bus meetings, daycare meetings, and other discussions about duties going on. I hope this post will show up. I am having a problem being able to compose. I will try to compose, but when you click on the keyboard nothing types. Sounds crazy, but it is happening. My mom and Bob will be here on Friday. I am getting excited to see them. They have been in Minnesota since they were here in May. This is my project last week in my room Everyone was doing such cute things in their rooms, so I decided to cutsie it up with these curtains.

Cute Clipboards!

Wow! Now it is August.  Time has been swift this summer.  I spent last weekend babysitting 2 of my favorite little guys, Oran and Mack.  We were very busy and we had a good time.   I was tired.
I have spent some time in the classroom.  I am still trying to get it organized.  I thought I wanted my desk at the back of the room, but the more I trhought about moving my laptop from the back to the front over and over I decided to move my desk back to the front.  I am still adjusting and finding places for everything.
My clipboards are looking ugly.  Previous classes have marked all over them and pencil will not erase.  I wanted to perk them up a little, so I bought some mod podge and painted mod podge on the paper to the back of the clipboards.   They turned out pretty cute.  A packet of 50 papers all in black and white was just the look I wanted.  Now all the clipboards look different and everyone can pick the one they want to take care of this year!  The mod podge dries quickly and washes up with water.  The mod podge leaves a nice shiny look to the back of the clipboard.

 I hope to use anchor charts this year.  These charts can be good reminders for the kids about what is currently being studied. I need to start making some that I might need at the beginning of the year.  I did however, get an all about numbers poster made.  I will use a dry erase
to write on it and then erase for the next number.  It is hard to see on the chart, but we will work with the number of boys and girls that equal the chosen number, money, time, tally marks, 10 frame, dominoes, addition facts to equal the chosen number, and ordinal numbers.  It will hit a lot of ways to make the chosen number.
So much to do!