Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Meet Miss Lawson


It has been a busy month in Grizzly Land! Finally testing, station organization, and scheduling has been finalized. Now we can formally introduce our new Grizzly. We have another set of hands helping us (me). Miss Lawson comes to us from Irving High School where she is preparing to be a teacher. Miss Lawson is not new to me. I had the privilege of being Shelbie's Kindergarten teacher in 1997! Yes, I do feel old, however she was a delight then and still is. I am so proud of her. Even "back in the day" she would say, "I want to be a Kindergarten teacher when I grow up!" Here she is on her way to reaching that goal. I have seen her progress from being that little cutie doing cheers on the playground, wearing plastic high heels in the housekeeping/dress up center, coming to see me several times throughout her school years at Open House, showing me her first car and now seeing her mature into the Senior year of High School! I feel very blessed to have her want to be in my classroom (again) and see that she is determined to be an Educator. This is a real treat to have a former student involved in my life and our classroom. We love Miss Lawson!

Thursday, October 1, 2009

Autumn

It is Autumn! It is October 1st and our class has "trick or treat" fever already! How can that be possible? It was all the buzz today. Some of us even wrote about it in our Word Work time. Amazing. It will be fun to get those pumpkins and have some science learning activities...a gross favorite last year was to watch our pumpkin decompose(rot--P U). Who knows what we can come up with this time? We took our October/November family project home tonight and I can't wait to see how creative our friends can be. Parent Conference Day is approaching quickly (Thursday, October 8). Look for your special date and time as that schedule came home tonight also. Our latest photo op for the Wall of Fame today was placing our head into Ms. Chambers foil sparkly leaf door decoration. We had some giggles with that experience. Remember the Gilbert motto...each child, each day, success!