Two Days!

Two days until the students come!  I was able to meet most of them last night during our annual ice cream social. That really calmed my nerves and made me more excited than anything. I have twenty-three first graders... How exciting!!

As you can assume, the desks are setup and my classroom is finally in order. I have six groups of desks; four in each group (one extra got a potential new student).  Each group has a bucket in the middle for pencils, erasers, etc. for the groups to share. Once again, this was planned in order to continue building that sense of community. 

Speaking of building a community... I forgot to mention the rules of my classroom:

There aren't any...

YET! 

I have decided to try and allow my students to come up with their own as a class. I will let everyone know how this goes!