Whewwwwww!  We made it through the first day of school!!  I enjoyed seeing everyone's bright and smiling faces today!  We had a fantastic first day of school.  Everyone came in and began working right away.  The only thing that was confusing for everyone was the supplies.  I am only asking for an additional 1/2 inch binder.  If you can't find one a 1 inch one will do as well. 

Today we colored some shirts that we will hang up to brighten our room.  We read a story and talked about the first day jitters.  We even got to share about what made us nervous.  Now that we are at school, we found out it's not so bad after all.  We also read two chapters of Wayside School.  Amongst explaining the procedures we also got a chance to start our writing journal and practice handwriting skills with our numbers and letters.  There was no homework for tonight but if you are looking for something to refresh their little minds you can have them start practing counting.  Try to have them get to 100 in a minute. 

I think that is pretty much a short summary of what we did today.  It was a great day and I am really excited to get the year going.  After today I can see that we really do have a great class!