Ready for Week 1?

I am so excited to be starting a new year!  Here is what we will be working on for the first week:
Reading:  We will be reviewing rhyming and upper case letters and will start building stamina in our reading centers.  Be sure to ask your child what "stamina" is, as we will be discussing it each day next week.
Writing:  We will be reviewing letters and will review writing first names correctly (only the first letter is an upper case letter).  We will also be learning about what our writing workshop will look like in our classroom and will be building routines for writing time.
Math:  We will work on learning routines for math workshop and will be reviewing shapes.
Social Studies:  We will start our first project of the year!  (Each unit in Science and Social Studies has a "problem" students will need to solve).  Our first "problem" is how we can help our school because we are now citizens of Magruder Elementary.  For the next two weeks, students will learn about how they can be a responsible school citizen or "Super Kiddo" and will develop a plan about how they can help our school.
Notes:  Please remember to send back all paperwork in the manila folder given to you at Open House.  After that, all paperwork will be sent home in a green take home folder.  Please send all notes and lunch money in this folder as Mr. Payne and I check folders each morning. 
I am looking forward to a fun first week!

Ready for a new year?

I am so glad I got to meet my new students yesterday.  I have been hard at work preparing our classroom for the new school year.  Just for fun, here are the before and after pictures of the classroom, as well as a picture of Tyrion ready to start his school year.  He is disappointed he can't come to Magruder, but he has his backpack packed and is all ready to go to dog school.