First Year of Teaching Firsties

 My first year of teaching was filled with  ups and downs but mostly great experiences! I was blessed to have an amazing group of kids with funny personalities. I was hired with only a few days to prepare my classroom. Therefore, I rushed around and managed to make a wonderful jungle themed room.

Reading Corner

Entrance of Classroom

 Our classroom title was " We All Get Along in the Jungle." I encouraged working together and building a community.

We learned many things together such as, reviewing letter sounds along with learning new sounds. We created name activities and learned classroom procedures. Before I knew it, it was October where we made some very cute spider glyphs that were originally created from another teacher off of www.teacherspayteacher.com  

The year seemed to just keep flying by and the spider web outside our room changed into a fall tree. We wrote what we were thankful about on a our cutout hands to share with the rest of the school. 

I'm thankful for my beautiful teacher :)

We are Thankful for...

Too quickly that fall tree lost all it's wonderful hand traced leaved and then gained a Holiday Wreath that we made with our hands.

Pretty soon it was 100 days of school where we had a celebrations and dressed as if we were 100 years old. Their were some pretty funny costumes!

I created some fun education games including revamping this Candy Land game into Sight Word Candy Land Game.

In February, we learned what love means to each of us.

In March, we learned about the weather and the saying that it comes in like a lion and out like a lamb.

In April, we talked about rainbows and what we would do if we caught one.

Throughout the year, I was able to find some good finds at yard sales to stock my classroom library. Here are some Dr. Seuss books. They love Dr. Seuss!

In May, we celebrated our mothers with these hand print flower pot poems.

The end of the year was bitter sweet. I will miss my first class and staff! I gave my students personalized awards and put together a writing scrapbook so that the students and their parents could see their growth. This is a picture of an end-of-the-year gift one of my wonderful students made for me.

Beautiful flowers one of my students gave me at the end of the year.

© L. Staub

Last updated: June 12, 2013

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