Ta-da!

Here are pictures of my classroom...as promised.

Welcome to Room 9
These are the self portraits I talked about in a previous post.

The view of my room when you first walk in.

A close up of my classroom library...parents love this!

Our Meeting Area

More of our Meeting Area

There you have it!!! I tell you...it was a lot of work!!!

The Talk...

So it happens every year. You don't know when or where or who will bring it up, but eventually one of your students will ask you.
It happened to me today. Day 13 of school. This is how it went.
My class and I wee out on the playground when a flock of my girls ran to me and grabbed me to help save them from the boys that were chasing them. One of my girls screamed, "Save me, Mommy." To which I replied, "I'm not your Mommy." Then another one of my girls asked, "Do you have any kids?" "No," I tell her, "no kids." "What?! You don't have any kids?" Then those 3 joyful words came out of her mouth..."Are you married?" "No, I'm not married." "Why aren't you married?" "I don't know...you better go play because we only have 10 more minutes of recess left."
Oh joy!!! I love being reminded of my singleness by my students.

There's always one!

So last Friday, my class had it's first Fun Friday activity. We had been working on creating our class mission statement that week and I decided it would be cute to post our mission statement on the door with self-portraits of our faces. So each child picked out a skin colored circle (we had 2 choices- a tan color and a brown color) and then had a choice of white, yellow, light brown, or dark brown yarn for their hair. (or any combination of those) Most students pretty much created a face that looked very similar to what they actually look like. But then there's always that one child that tries to be silly. I am walking around the room, and lo and behold what do i see...facial hair. I quickly announce to the class, "None of you should have facial hair on your self-portrait because none of you HAVE facial hair." I partly feel bad because I don't want to hinder creativity, but really...that's crossing the line! This activity was a great way to see what kind of students I have this year. I'll post pictures of my classroom soon...I promise!