Adapted from MHS.

Welcome to room 35! I’m excited to get started with everyone. I hope you had a fun and restful summer. Mine seemed to fly by too fast, but I’m really excited about the transition the school year brings and learning more about you.

We will officially start on Wednesday the 5th of September. Get what you can on the classroom supply list and we’ll sort out the odds and ends when you get here on the 5th. In other words, the main supply you need to come to class with is enough positive attitude to last the school year.

Our main purpose for these first couple of weeks will be to create the infrastructure that will support our class. You will be helping me to build our classroom community.

To make things a bit more visual for you, here’s our schedule for this year:

9-9:45 Literacy

9:45-10:30 Music/PE

10:30-11:30 Literacy

11:30-12:15 Handwriting/Science/Social Studies/Art

12:15-12:35 Lunch

12:35-12:50 Recess

12:50-2:15 Mathematcis

2:15-2:30 Recess

2:30-3:00 Mathematics

3:00-3:15 Campfire (Class Meeting)

3:15-3:28 Clean-up/Dismissal

*Note: Breaks will be given when needed. It’s very difficult for healthy learning to take place without them.

**Note: Feel free to bring a snack for break time. We will talk more about what is a healthy snack later this week.

I realize this can be a stressful time for students and parents. We have a very experienced team of 5th grade teachers and support staff to help you do your very best. Please rest assured that you are in a great place that is safe and driven to focus on our school mission…

“Strive for your highest potential!”

I’m going to be stealing an idea from Mr. Rodger’s, another 5th grade teacher on the Challenger team, by asking you a challenge question at the end of some blog posts. Hopefully this starts to exercise your brain a bit.

Challenge: What does the picture at the beginning of this post have to do with our classroom?