First Week of School

This past week was our first week of school! :-)

On Monday night we had a school-wide "Back to School BBQ". It was so fun to see all the school families and great to see former students (it is weird saying I have former students!).

Tuesday we had Open Classrooms for our students to come by and drop off their supplies. This was good one-on-one time with parents. When my students came to drop off their supplies I greeted them with a handshake at the door and handed them their first "third grade assignment". They were so excited! The assignment was just a list of steps on how to put away the supplies they brought.

I set up a "Parent Station" for this in order to give the parents something to do hoping this would allow the students a step in responsibility of putting their things away by themselves. I had a parent survey with questions about their student and also a class roster sheet to fill out. Most of the parents loved the first assignment and enjoyed watching their student follow the directions.

And then Wednesday was the first day of school! So exciting. I felt much more ready this year for it than I did last year. I think I'm going to enjoy this whole "second year of teaching" thing. ;-)

I have 16 students this year. 8 boys and 8 girls. They are fun group of students and we are going to have a great year! One of my students brought me an apple on the first day! Isn't that cute?!

As much as I love being back to teaching again, I am so thankful for weekends. I forgot how exhausting it is to be consistent every minute of every day while trying to explain something to 16 different personalities! ;-)