The Beginning

It is offically the end of the first week of the school year and I have to say, I would be happy if every week was like this one! Okay maybe a little less chaotic, but we all survived! I feel in love with all TWENTY of my students this week and I've just begun getting to know each one of them :) Some of the other classes have a lot lower numbers than our class, so I have a feeling I will have atleast one student moved to another class sometime next week. That's always hard but it's better in the long run! Twenty is just too many and we're having trouble fitting in the classroom!  =/

I spent a few hours up at school organizing my closet, it's finally functional yay!! I feel so much better now!!!

The rest of the weekend is for relaxing, seeing some amazing friends, and a little school work of course! Here's a peek at my new testing offices:

Taller than my old ones and I added motivational stickers to them :)

Thank you to all the parents for providing all the supplies and helping your children get into our first grade routine. I am excited to get the year rolling and get into our groove!

Hope you all have a great weekend!

Supply List

Good Evening! If your just joining me for the first time I hope that means you got my postcard today! My name is Kayla Bowes and I will be your child's first grade teacher!

I have spent the last two days organizing and setting everything up in my classroom and I have discovered one thing: I have an overload of supplies!! This year moved into a new classroom that had a lot of things left behind by the departing teacher. Thanks to her I have been able to scale down my supply list for this fall. It works for your wallet and helps with my storage space!

Additional supplies may need to be restocked later in the year. I will communicate that on the monthly newsletter you will find in your child's daily folder throughout the school year. The items listed below are the only ones we will need at this time!

Ms. Bowes
First Grade Supply List 2012

* 1 – backpack WITHOUT wheels
* 1 – pencil box labeled with name
* 1 - 1 inch 3 ring binder
* 1 box – 24 count "skinny" crayons (regular, no glitter, etc.)
* 8 – glue sticks (Staples has a 10 pack of Elmer's purple sticks for $5 until Saturday 8/18)
* 2 bottles – waterless hand sanitizer (needs to be restocked frequently)
* 1 box – Ziploc gallon bags (boys)
* 1 box – Ziploc sandwich bags (girls)
* 1 ream – white copy paper (needs to be restocked frequently)
* 1– green 2-pocket folder with prongs
* 1- blue 2-pocket folder with prongs
* 1- red 2-pocket folder with prongs
* 1- plastic 2-pocket folder with prongs in matching transportation color:
car rider/walker- orange ; extended day- green; bus/van - yellow
* Optional but highly recommended:  1 pair headphones (ear buds or regular) labeled with student’s name. (for individual use on computers in the computer lab and in the classroom)

Clear front will allow a personalized title page!

Green, orange or yellow

green, red, and blue

* Please purchase plain-covered materials without designs or logos. Do not labeling your child's name on the folders or binder I will take care of that :)

Additional items we will need but are not required:

* disinfecting wipes and/or spray (Clorox, Lysol, etc)
* tape (scotch, double sided or shipping tape)
* snacks for the class (pretzels, crackers, goldfish etc.- avoid sweets and "junk food")* address labels (Avery 5160)
* Expo Writing Practice board (dotted line white board)
* dry erase crayons
* colored printer paper or stationary (for newsletter and reminders)

Thank you for the support I am looking forward to a great school year! Hope to see you on Friday, if not Open House is September 13th at 6:30PM!

I will update later this week as I get schedules and information about the school year...maybe even some pictures!?! Leave me a comment if you like what you see :)

REALLY!?

Wow has it really been 5 months since my last post? I am ashamed of myself!! We all know how busy the end of the school year gets but I MUST get better at this! My new school year resolution is to keep my blog up to date!!! My students loved updating it with me I have to do that more often!!

It has been a busy summer. School really is my home away from home! Thankfully I could get into my classroom all summer because I had so much to do after moving rooms at the end of the year. Yup that's right you can find me in Room 64 this year!! I am so blessed that the parting teacher left me a room full of goodies and I am SO ready to put it to use! It was exhausting going through all of the stuff she left before I could move my own stuff in but I have most of it where I want it and the rest will find it's place soon!

In between unpacking I found time to make some new stuff courtesy of PINTEREST! I will have to snap some pictures next week during planning week and share :)

But before planning week is one last weekend of summer!!I'll be making the most of it :)

I hope you all have a great weekend and check back next week for pictures from my classroom!