Summer Cleaning

Today was a great day. I helped my sister-in-law clean out her classroom. She had a beautiful baby girl in April and has decided to take a personal leave of absence and spend time with her until next year. Just want to put this out there... she really is the cutest niece ever because she's mine : )

She was also a Kindergarten teacher. She just finished her second year of teaching. While packing up her things I snagged a few items to borrow this year until she gets back into teaching. Super excited because I really have nothing for Kindergarten. I don't really have much at all since this is my second year teaching and if I do have stuff it's mostly all 2nd grade stuff

I ended up with a nice pocket chart holder, some really cute stools, kitchen play toys, play-doh : ), and some other odds and ends things. It makes me super excited to get back into it all. Just being in a classroom and see all the things I need to do makes me excited but also overwhelmed. Too much to do and I know August 14th (the first day) will be here VERY soon. Are you feeling overwhelmed yet? What is the first thing you are going to be doing when you get in your classroom?

Summer Projects

I've been working on odds and ends projects all summer. Here are two finished projects. My new and improved rocking chair cushions and my teacher tool box. I have so many other projects that I want and really need to get done but this is it for now.

New Grade. New Year. New Blog.

I'm so excited to announce that I will be part of the blogging community! I have been super inspired by many other teacher bloggers. I hope to be an inspiration to others like me. I can't wait to share what I am doing in my classroom this year and many years to come with other fellow teachers. Mostly I can't wait to give credit to those wonderful ideas I have used from fantastic teachers. Hopefully along my teaching journey I can show you some of my own ideas as well. I am blessed to work in a profession that I have the flexibility to be as creative as I want. The best part is that my students benefit from all of these amazing ideas; whether they are mine or other teachers'. I have to give a shout out to Jen Ross over at The Teacher's Cauldron.
She pretty much set up this blog to make it beautiful and really represent me and my classroom.

So watch out for my posts as we head into a new school year. I'm soooo excited for all the things I have in store. I'm sure I will be posting tons of pictures as I set up my classroom next week. Monday will be my first day back to set up my room. We start Pre-Planning on Wednesday next week. Are you ready? Good Luck!