Well, today was the day.  The first day of Kindergarten!  I just thought I would quickly share with you about my Meet the Teacher day and the first day of school.

I went back to work last Wednesday for teacher work days.  We had meetings on Wednesday.  Then on Thursday my awesome principal gave us the whole day to work in our classrooms! {Plus, my bestie and I went out for lunch.  We can't ever do that during the school year!}  On Friday, we had a couple more meetings and some more time to get ready for Meet the Teacher.

Meet the Teacher
One o'clock came and it was time!  Many smiling faces came through my door that day!  Some of the faces were new, and some were very familiar from past siblings.  I enjoyed talking with each and every one of them!  I even had past students come by to visit me.  I always tell my students that they can visit me any time.

Our Meet the Teacher is very informal.  Families literally come in to meet the teacher, find their classroom, and ask any questions that they might have about the first days of school.  We will have a more formal Open House next week where we go into all the details about our classrooms.  Does your school have a Meet the Teacher session, Open House, or both?

The First Day of Kindergarten
Today started with the students coming onto the playground with their families.  Once the bell rang, we came inside.  Our parents are allowed to come into the classroom, take pictures of their little ones, and say goodbye.  At each student's spot, I had put the student's name tag to wear, the student's lunch card, and a First Day of Kindergarten coloring page.  While the parents said their goodbyes, the children started coloring their pages, and I went around to help my students put on their name tags.

After that, I taught my newest Kinders how to put their lunch cards and lunch boxes where they belonged.  We then took lunch count to the lunch room and took a short tour around the school.  I was so proud of how well my Kinders walked through the hallways!

We got back to the classroom, and I gave my Kinders a little tour of our classroom bathroom.  I love that we have a bathroom, well two actually, for the students to use.  It's so convenient!  We then got a drink of water from the water fountain and headed outside for a little recess and first day of school picture taking.

We literally went inside for 10 minutes before it was time to go back out for our lunch recess.  When my lunch was over, I joined my class in the lunch room. We let our Kinders take a little longer for lunch today since we are still learning our routines!

We went back into the classroom, put our lunch boxes away, got a drink of water, and sat down to read our first story of the year.  I read the favorite First Day Jitters.  Before I read the book, we talked about the Back to School Magic Confetti that I sent the students.  Many of my Kinders said that the confetti helped them get their jitters out.  Score!

I hope you had, or will have, a great first day of school!  Thanks for stopping by!

I am linking up with Farley for some Currently fun!

Hi everyone!  I cannot believe that it's the last day of July!  Where did July go?  My last post here on my little piece of the web was my June Throwback! Crazy!

July was definitely a busy month here.  I attended the I Teach K conference and the Teachers Pay Teachers conference the first full week of July.  I learned so much!  Both conferences were amazing!  Then I have been subbing this summer.  My son attended ESY at my school site, so I offered to help out if any teachers had to be absent.  Today was the last day of ESY, and I subbed for a dear friend who used to sub for me.  She told me it was funny that she was writing plans for me.  lol

Well, the reason we are all here, or maybe the reason I am here, is for me to show you some more throwback bulletin boards (and a couple not so quite bulletin boards but close enough).  Everything that I am showing you is from a couple years ago.  I would love for you to share some of  your recent or throwback bulletin boards as well!


I wish I could claim credit for this bulletin board display.  However, this was a project that my Kinders made in Art class.  We have an awesome art teacher!  All of the projects that my Kinders make are so wonderful.  When I saw these winter scenes walk in my room, I grabbed them and put them up as quick as I could!


This display is a project that we completed after reading "Five Green and Speckled Frogs." My Kinders first made a pond and a log.  They then had to decide how many frogs to put in the water and how many to put on the log. After that was complete, my Kinders had to complete a few sentences as well as a number sentence.


Here is the first of my "not quite a bulletin board" displays.  My Kinders made these rainbows by picking a popcorn word and writing it in the correct color of the rainbow.  I just love how they turned out!


My last "not quite a bulletin board" is a door display that my Kinders made for Nevada Reading Week.  To make these wonderful caterpillars, we completed a directed drawing.  My Kinders then used watercolor paints to paint their very hungry caterpillars.  I love how unique each caterpillar is!


Thanks for stopping by to see my throwback bulletin boards (and not quite bulletin boards).  Would you like to share what your students have made?  Grab the linky button above and link up below.  I can't wait to see what your students have made!

Hi!  I'm back for another edition of What's On Your Bulletin Board Linky!  This month, I figured since most of us are out of school we could share some throwback bulletin boards from either earlier this year or from years past.  If, by any chance, you have bulletin boards from this month due to being year round or getting out late in June, please share those!


This first throwback bulletin board is truly throwback!  It's from about 14 years ago when I taught in Kansas.  It's so old that I had to actually scan the picture in. lol  When I taught in Kansas, I was at a very small school.  As in, my last year there I had 9 students in my class!  We did not have an art teacher, so each Friday I did some kind of art project with my students.  For this project, I had the students draw a flower in the middle, draw lines around the flower, and then color it in either warm or cool colors.  I let my students decide which way they wanted to color it.  {The middle two flowers are mine.  I couldn't let my students have all the fun!}


My next two bulletin boards come from just a few years ago.  This first one is a set of bulletin boards that contain my freebie shape penguin craftivity.  My students love making these every year!



My last bulletin board is a tooth fairy activity.  My students colored a tooth fairy and then finished off the sentence stem.  It was fun to see what they wanted the tooth fairy to bring them!

Would you like to share your bulletin boards (current or throwback)?  All you have to do is grab the graphic above and add your link below.  I can't wait to see all the great bulletin boards!

It has been crazy, crazy here these past two weeks.  My husband's car went into the shop for repair a dent leaving me without a car.  The AC on the bottom floor of our house stopped working correctly.  We went on a four day vacay to Disneyland.  Friday felt like Saturday, and yet I'm still a day late for Five for Friday.  But, remember one of my favorite sayings is better late than never!

Thanks again to Kacey for hosting!

Before

After

Do you remember the little tidbit I shared above about our downstairs AC?  This is why we got it fixed as quickly as possible.  It has been H-O-T hot here in Las Vegas.  I took this picture yesterday at about 1:00.  We try to stay inside as much as possible.  We have a pool, but it's even too hot to get in unless it's early morning.  How hot has it been where you live?









Thanks for stopping by for my {late} Five for Friday!

On Tuesday, I linked up with Diana and Jayme for their Tell All Tuesday linky!


I shared three stories about myself.  The trick was that only two of those stories were true.  Ready to find out what was true and what was a lie?


My husband and I flew to Germany, picked up my brand new car, and drove around Europe for almost 2 weeks. - True!

In 2008, my husband and I flew to Munich, Germany to pick up my brand new X3!  We had a blast driving it around seeing the sights.  My husband had a lot of fun driving with no speed limit on the Autobahn!  I no longer have my X3 {it had some engine problems}, but I loved our trip we took in it!

Picking up my car at BMW Welt.

Me at Olympiapark.

My favorite gelato place in Bellagio, Italy. Is it weird that I took a picture of it? lol

I once sat next to Josh Duhamel on a flight into Las Vegas. - False

Sadly, this is false!  I have flown into Las Vegas tons of times (you tend to do that when you live here), but I have never sat next to Josh Duhamel.  I would have loved to though! {Sorry that the picture is not centered, but felt it was necessary. You know, for editorial purposes. ;)}



My wedding was outdoors during a tornado warning. - True!

It had been raining off and on all day, but apparently we were also in a tornado warning!  Allegedly, telling the bride was something that no one wanted to do.  I thought everyone was lying when they told me about it later!  Luckily, nothing bad happened, and I married the best guy a girl could ask for.

Not a great picture and not my actual bouquet. I'm not sure where it was. lol

So, did you guess correctly?  Thanks for stopping by!  Oh, and if anyone knows how to center a Getty Image in a blog post, can you please leave me a comment?  I spent way too much time trying to figure it out!  :)

I am excited to link up with Diana from My Day in K and Jayme from Teach Talk Inspire for their super fun new linky Tell All Tuesday!


This week's topic is Two Truths and a Lie!  I have had so much fun reading all of the other posts and trying to figure out what everyone's truths and lies are!



My husband and I flew to Germany, picked up my brand new car, and drove around Europe for almost 2 weeks.


I once sat next to Josh Duhamel on a flight into Las Vegas.


My wedding was outdoors during a tornado warning.

Which one do you think is the lie?  Leave a comment with your guess.  I will be back in three days to share the answer.

Thanks for stopping by!

I can't believe how quickly this school year has flown by!  It seems like just yesterday I welcomed my Kinders in my classroom, and on Thursday I told them goodbye.  We had quite the busy week last week.  Monday was our Kindergarten promotion.  We sang five songs for our families, and I have to say my Kinders rocked it!  Tuesday, we completed some last minute learning.  Wednesday and Thursday were completely for fun!  I want to share with you some of the fun from the last two days!

Wednesday
I knew that it was going to be a good day when this beauty was waiting in the teacher's lounge for me to grab up.  Ok, so it wasn't waiting just for me, but I sure am glad I got to it before it was gone.  So yummy! {Our super office manager got donuts for the school, and this is my absolute favorite one of the bunch.}


Ok, onto the fun in the classroom.  My bestie and I decided that we wanted to do some fun crafting.  She tackled one project in her classroom, and I tackled another in mine.  The kids did some picture  and word searches while we pulled them to do the projects.  

My bestie's project was a fireworks project.  First the students took white crayon and drew a city scene on the bottom half of a black piece of construction paper.  She then had students "draw" fireworks on with white glue.  Finally, the students had a blast with glitter!  Glitter was everywhere! So fun!  I mean, really, who doesn't love glitter?  {I mean besides my husband and custodian.  lol}


My project was marble painting.  I had the students come over and sit on my carpet in a row.  I had them write their name on their paper.  Then I put their paper in the art trays, added blue and red paint, and handed them off!  The students had so much fun watching the marbles make designs on their paper!  Once the papers were dried, my bestie and I cut out the stars that were on the paper.  Our Kinders were so excited to see their finished projects!



At the end of the day, my Kinders went home with these envelopes filled to the brim with projects that they completed throughout the year, their year long portfolios, and their poetry journals.  The students made the covers the second week of school by tracing their names with glue and tearing different colored pieces of construction paper.  I then laminated them and added a plain piece of construction paper to the back to make the envelope.  I wish I could show you the whole name, but I think you get the idea.  :)


My Kinders were so proud as they carried their envelopes out to their waiting families at the end of the day!

Thursday
Thursday was a half day, but packed full of fun!  We started off with a little dance party.  We then went outside for a little chalk fun.  A group of my Kinder girls drew me a house with a pool and casita.  One of the girls then "sold" it to me for $300 and gave me $25,000 in change.  Not a bad deal if I say so myself!


As I walked around, I found these two spots on the playground.  Super sweet!



After the chalk fun, we went inside to watch our slideshow that my bestie made for us.  It's always fun to see their reactions when they see themselves on the screen!  We watched for a little bit and then went outside for some bubble fun.  After they were bubbled out, we went inside for a little snack and watched a video until it was time to go home.  My Kinders went home with a copy of the slideshow, a book from me, their report cards, and a hug!

Thanks for stopping by to read about my last two days with my Kinders!