A busy start to a new year!

We are always busy, but we have been especially busy since I last updated.

Over the Christmas break all of the Kindergarten and First grade classes moved upstairs into our new K-1 Learning Center. We have wanted to add this part of our building to our school for a long time and everyone was thrilled when we were able to acquire it earlier on in the year! It tooks months of planning and renovating, but we were finally read to move on up on the last day of school before Christmas break. We had a ton of great parents helping us out and we were able to get everyone out of their old rooms and into their new rooms in less than 2 hours! I owe the dedicated parents who helped me move upstairs in the rain a HUGE HUGE HUGE thank you!!!

Over the break I got our classroom all ready for us to come right in in January and get started! We love our new space. We have lots of windows that let in lots of natural light. We have a great little corner where we can have our group time and then we have a large open area where the children can play centers like blocks or kinex! It is fantastic. The kids seem to really like our new space as well.

Our first week back at school I was called to a conference at the last minute so I missed being with the kids for two days. I hated leaving them since we were in a new place, but they adapted really quickly and did fantastic without me!

In between all of this, we have been learning lots. We started Accelerated Reader last week. This gives the students a chance to choose a book on their level and then take a quick test about it to check their comprehension. So far, everyone has had great scores and I am very proud of the students because comprehension is a higher level skill!

We have also been learning about the seasons. Mother nature has not given us a lot to work with this year, but we are gaining an understanding all the same!