Happy New (School) Year!  I am SO excited for this class.  In the first two days, they have already shown me how kind, enthusiastic, and capable they are.  We dove in on Wednesday by making our classroom rules together, exploring our library, and making Jitter Juice.  Click here to read a post from 2017 about this fun first day tradition.

Because our class is small this year, we have the opportunity to try some new ideas. I’m most excited about incorporating flexible seating into our routines.  I will write a post about this later on.  Flexible seating changed the look of our classroom.  Here’s a short video tour:

(Did you notice that my decorative theme is confetti, like Vanetti?  When I got married, that’s how a former student remembered my new name.  I loved the idea so much that I decided to adopt it.)

Yesterday, I got a chance to start seeing what the students can do because they completed short writing and math assessments.  We are also beginning to assess reading.  We ended the day with a classroom scavenger hunt, in which students worked to locate various items in our classroom.

Here’s to a great year!