My fabulous principal magically finagled FIVE workdays before school started this year, so my co-teacher and I (I'm currently in a classroom that uses a co-teaching model - Hurrah!) had FIVE amazing days to get our classroom ready and get prepared before the students came.
Thus we had lots of time to make things cute and think about what we wanted to change for the upcoming year.
One of those things ended up being our
classroom rules. The sign was faded, you couldn't read them, and they didn't come close to passing my
cuteness test.
Thus, we came up with these!
I love starting out the year with the book
Do Unto Otters. It's super
cute and
witty, and I laugh all the way through reading it while I explain to the second graders (who are staring at me like I'm crazy) why the little things the otters say are funny. If you haven't seen it, or don't own it, click on the pic for an Amazon link. I need to get a new one as my paperback is sorely worn.
Since we had a little extra time for a fun art project at the end of the week I decided to try my hand at
guided drawing. This was pretty last minute so I just came up with a drawing and about 8-10 steps which I said aloud as students followed along with my drawing on the doc camera - nothing fancy.
I think the
results were SUPER cute! Plus, it was
QUIET and
NO ONE CRIED. On the first week that's what I call
SUCCESS.
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