September Lunch Bunch

The goal of each child, everyday is to earn as many blue tickets as possible.  Tickets are earned by doing your best in everything you do. The more you earn, the more chances you have of getting your name picked and then you have the privilege of choosing a prize out of the prize  box.  Two of those puppies are chosen every day.  It's a big deal around here.


As an added incentive, I save all of the tickets and then I draw FIVE names from the collection of tickets accumulated throughout the month. These five names meet together in the classroom around the "teacher table" to eat lunch with each other and with me.  It is affectionately called "The Lunch Bunch"!  I love this time.  The children really let down their hair and we get sort of silly and giggly as we eat our lunches and visit in the classroom.  What sweet little children you all have!  


Our SEPTEMBER winners were:

CHRISTOPHER!

ESHER!

LOVELY LITTLE IMANI!

LEONARDO!

JACOB!

All finished and headed back to the lunchroom. 

Such a fun time to spend together.

You may have wondered why we were all in pajamas.  Well, it just so happened to be our PJ day during the annual Red Ribbon Week.

Cute aren't they??

I wonder who the lucky five will be for last month...October!

I'll be sure to let you all know.

WELCOME!  WELCOME!WELCOME!

Welcome to a great new year!

Our first meeting between teacher and students was on August 18, 2011.  It was 

Back to School Night

This was the evening where I fell in love with my new group of 26 

first graders.  What an adorable group of children.

From the moment each student arrived, I knew this was going to be a great group of

 children.

I was so wrapped up in meeting both students and parents

that I didn't get as many pictures as I had hoped.

(Perhaps if any of you parents have some more photos from the night, 

you could pass them along to me

Once children and parents arrived at our classroom, Rm. 6, they picked up a paper that contained a special Treasure Hunt of things to find in 

the classroom.  Children found their chairs, boxes, cubbies, 

a train, a squirt of hand sanitizer, a stop light, and then picked a book

to put by their chair ready to read on Monday morning, the first day of school.

But, before leaving, parents had to fill out all of these...

And this was not all of them!  So many things to sign up for.
I could tell by the "fighting" between parents to be the Room Mother, that I would have a fantastic group
of helpful parents.
And I absolutely do.

Like I said before, my photos are limited so just picture these children with YOUR child's

head on the body!  :)  :)  

Here is Esher and his absolutely adorable toothless smile.
That is one of my favorite things about first graders.

Look at this little sweetheart.  His name is Christopher.  We soon discovered
that Christopher has the longest name in the class.  ELEVEN letters!
Oh, and that's his mother there beside him.
If you look closely behind him, you will see another one of our
classroom friends  It's Leonardo!
(I finally got his name right.  For the first two days I was calling him Lorenzo!  So odd.  Sorry about that Leonardo!)

Just so you all will recognize them when you see them, here are the

other first grade teachers.

That's me on the left, Mrs. Bayless in the middle, and Mrs. Reimschussel on the right.

They are lovely ladies and outstanding teachers and it is

a privilege to work with them.

HERE'S TO A FANTASTIC NEW YEAR!

2011-2012