September 1, 2014

What a Fantastic Week!!


The pictures I will be posting are of your children and the backs of their heads!! It wasn't until Friday when I received the last of the blog permissions, so next week you will see their smiling faces!!

We had such a great week. It's hard to believe that it was only five days. We had so many different routines to establish, pre assessments to take, activities to complete to get to know each other, and then of course...we had to do math, language arts, social studies!!

Your kids are AMAZING. They are good listeners and hard workers.  I can't wait to see what they are going to do this upcoming year. The opportunities are endless!!

I hope you enjoy these photos, and I really hope you enjoyed your family over the three day weekend! I sure did...hence the reason for this very late post.  My apologies. 

Interviewing each other to practice Purposeful Talk/Collaborative Conversations... 












Developing the rules for OUR kingdom...






Practicing our "Read for Stamina" time...










Our high school intern, Ms. Runkles...

Organizing classroom math data...








Here's to a super second week!! :-)

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