It's done!!!!

So school starts Monday....what???? Where the heck did my summer go?  I am sooooo thankful that my Master's program was finished in May so I had my complete summer off. I moved Saturday to my new apartment and got all of my things put away nicely.  I got a lot of my classroom done today.  And we have a wedding shower on Sunday.  I plan to rest these next 4 days because the next break I get is the Wedding day!!!!

Here are some pictures of my class.   I will post more next week.



My before classroom                                                                      Teacher Board

Helper Board

Teacher Area

Scrunch border word wall....adorable

Thinking Maps and Calendar

Reading area

Math word wall and listening center

Another reading area

View from the door to the back

View from the door

so cute!  I love the blue border

I am trying out my Chinese lanterns.  Here's to hoping the alarm doesn't go off tonight.  :/

A person's and person no matter how small....

View from side to side

View from front to back

Wow! Abandonment!!! But a new year is coming.

     So, I have really abandoned my blog.  So sad.  This year has gotten away from me.  First, our sweet little Mikey passed away.  Then I got engaged. I finished my Masters.  I am moving schools and apartments.  I have let my blog go, but I'm back!

     I was told in May that I had to leave my classroom of 7 years and move out into portable world.  I was ok with it but really hate packing.  I packed my entire room and on the last day of school my asst. principal announced she was leaving but couldn't tell me where she was going yet.  She hugged me and said if I wanted a job for the next year to call her.  Later that day I found out she was going to a school that is 5 minutes from my house (as opposed to the 45 minute commute through downtown Nashville that I  was about to make everyday).
   
     I put in for a transfer on Tuesday and was hired to the new school on Thursday.  So exciting but scary at the same time.

    Here are pictures of my new classroom.




















                                                                                                                I have now moved all of my things in and have about 4 boxes left to unpack.  I WILL NOT embarrass myself and put those pictures on here.  I will have after ones in a week because school starts July 29.  :/

Ok I have to get back to packing my apartment.  I will post soon.
   
Danielle

Mikey

My heart is so full right now as I sit in the hospital room of a dying student from my school. He is only 5 years old and was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor. His disease is called DIPG. It only affects children and is very rare. He was diagnosed in January and here we sit 8 months later watching this baby fight for his life. Please pray for this family. He is one tough little guy but it is inevitable that the end is near. It breaks my heart but I can't believe how many people have already been touched by him. He is a big Alabama fan and several players, fans, and even coach Saban have called him and prayed with the family. You can see how precious he is! Pray that he is comfortable and pray they family can have the strength they need to deal with it.

Mikey went to be with Jesus on September 12.  If you are a prayer warrior, PLEASE remember his family in your prayers.

Just tweet it.....

Today I created a a twitter wall for my students. I made it will reusable sentence strips. It will be a form of an exit ticket. They will go and tweet something they have learned today. How fun!!!!

My Little Artist

So my Burmese student, John(his American name)  is going to be an artist.  I don't know how many of you have read Officer Buckle and Gloria but this is a dead ringer for him and the dog......

Love it!

August

We have been in school for 3 weeks now.  Wow!  Time flies....I guess.  This is my first year having a complete EL reading class.  It is so different and it's a new challenge, but I love it and those kids!  
I have been staying at school until 5 or 6 every night.  I have class tomorrow night so I am trying to get things done now.  

Today, we worked on the word schema.  I really want my kids to know that vocabulary word and use it correctly so this is what I did.  They had fun and when I asked them at the end of the day what we call all of the information in our heads....they said schema!!!!!

Also, my precious little John, who will be an artist drew this illustration for his writing.  I love it because it shows his culture!

That's all for now!  

Beginning of the year

I am absolutely worn out. Whew! This is the 3rd day of school and I always forget how rough it is. I made myself go home at 5 tonight even though there are mounds of things to do. I did manage to get some teaching in today, so that's a plus. Lol

The first picture is my bulletin board. I love it because my school is so diverse. I read The Sneetches and then we talked about how we are all different. Then we made the fish.

The others are about inferring. We used the book The Kissing Hand.