1st Day:
I fell in love! The kids are so cute and so innocent and so good! I found out right away which boys I will have to keep separated and which girls are my divas.
I had a little line of students waiting to give me a hug after school. I love it! And they loved James Danger. Like obsessed with him love him.
2nd Day:
I read a story and then introduced the rules = crack that whip! Our rules?
1. You can do anything you want as long as it doesn't cause a problem for anyone else.
2. You can do anything you want as long as it doesn't cause a problem for you.
3. If you do cause a problem, you are responsible for solving it.
Rules were fun to talk about--they first thought of their own. Some were very interesting. And then we talked about how their rules {no hitting, pinching, pulling hair, etc.} fit into our classroom rules.
3rd Day:
Just keeps getting better! We do this thing called King / Queen of the day. This is what I wrote about it for our classroom newsletter,
"This week we began our King/Queen of the day. This is an excellent opportunity for the students to get to know their fellow classmates—his or her favorites and interests. The king or queen becomes the helper for the day, which includes feeding our turtle, James Danger.
King/Queen also serves as a review of different components of phonics as we study the names of each student and compare them to past kings/queens. A few of the things we have reviewed so far are syllables, vowels, consonants, and capitalization."
King/Queen is like my favorite thing. We interview the king/queen and then the kids also write a letter to the king/queen: I like you. You are special because (you like meatballs and so do I) or (you went to Alaska).
We also sing "Willoughby Wallaby Woo" and the kids love it. And I have so much fun with it! I will go really fast or slow or quiet and they follow me and just get a kick out of it!
We started reading James and the Giant Peach on the first day of school. The kids pretty much love when I read to them, especially that. I am a pretty good read aloud-er. I'm so animated. {I'm tooting my own horn, can you tell?}
4th Day:
Love, love, love! I was slightly sad for the week to end! Only slightly--I need my weekends! They are so precious. Friday was a little more eventful than the other days. One girl hurt her nose at recess and had to get ice from the office. nbd. Then a little boy in my class gets migraines and so his mom gave me a box of Ritz crackers if he ever needs one. We sat on the carpet for a story and he had his head down. Now this boy is just fabulous--excellent work, fabulous printing, listens, quiet, just good little boy. He comes up to me in his sweet little boy voice and says, "I-I don't feel well." "Oh no! Do you need some crackers?" "No. I want to go to the office." lalala and we took care of it all. This is the same little boy that has to give me a hug everyday.
Also, the King/Queen gets to eat lunch with me and have some one-on-one time with James Danger [and then I kick 'em out of the classroom for the last 15 minutes of lunch]. Well, the boy that was in King on Friday is quite the talker and quite animated.
"Miss Kendrick! I really really like that your classroom is like, all ocean animals and all sea animals. And you have James Danger and all of the shells. I like it!"
I love 2nd grade! They just want to hug you and they love you and they are so good! I pray for them every night and for myself that I can help them. There are some students that struggle in reading, or writing, or math, or a combination or all of them and I just want to help them in any way I possibly can!
Okay, so I never got an Open House or 1st Day {or 2nd, 3rd, or 4th} picture. I kind of showed my outfit before. Well, I was taking some pictures of my apartment and snapped a couple of myself--self-timer, there is nothing more embarrassing than that, okay? This is what I will be wearing for Back-to-School Night on Thursday.
This was just so awkward.
Erin made that necklace for me. I love it. It's our Sisters Necklace--she made one for all of us.
Erin gave me that blouse that she got from Old Navy of all places like 4 years ago. Still love it. Still wear it.
G.Ma bought me the sweater on our summer '10 shopping trip.
I got that belt from Down East Basics on sale with a store credit.
And I got that skirt from J.Crew on sale. Oh, I want everything from J.Crew. [Gift cards accepted daily.]
And I got those shoes from Gap like 3 years ago. And I haven't worn them in like 2 months, weird. And I looooove them!
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