It's Almost Time!

I've been busy working in our classroom for the past several weeks.  I can't wait to share it with you beginning on September 3rd!  Here's a few sneak peeks:

                               

I hope you're enjoying the weekend!  My family and I are soaking up our last summer weekend.....teachers go back to school beginning on Wednesday!

Panda Love

Chances are if you know my son Mason (who is joining us in 1st grade this year), you also know just how much he LOVES pandas!  We stopped by the Pre-Primary building the other day and saw Mrs. Fleury.  She told Mason she had heard there had been panda twins born at a zoo and she thought there might be a panda cam!  We came home and looked online, but only found pandas that had recently been born in Taiwan.  With a little more exploring this evening, we discovered they were in Atlanta and there definitely was a panda cam! Here's the link to the panda cam at the Atlanta Zoo if you'd like to see what the babies and their mama are up to:

Click here for the panda cam

More pandas!!!!???  We were excited at my house to hear another panda cub had been born yesterday......this time at the National Zoo!  

Come back this weekend for some pictures of our classroom!

1A Has Our Very Own Blog!

One of my goals for the summer was to set up a blog for our class for this year.  With a couple weeks to spare, I am so excited to share our blog with you!

It's my hope that this will be a space for our first graders and their families to access, display, and share learning/information with an authentic audience.

We can use our blog to:

• create an online community for teachers, students, and parents
• share resources and information
• highlight student work and learning
• integrate multimedia (videos and photos)
• provide opportunities for students to read (posts and comments) and write (posts and comments)
• share extra learning experiences

As a parent myself, I feel strongly about keeping our students safe online.  For that reason we will only use FIRST names on our blog.  I would also ask that parents or other adults when commenting, only use their FIRST name or describe themselves like "Will's Mom" for example so as not to identify your child by last name.  All comments will be moderated by Miss Muntean.  We will be working on writing in complete sentences in first grade so parent/adult comments can be a good model for us.  Please refrain from using abbreviations like lol.  

Please take a minute to subscribe to our class blog using the widget and/or add it to your favorite RSS feed reader.  I hope you check back often to see what's going on in room 230!  

1A Students......... I hope you each received your letter in the mail.  Did you tuck your envelope in a special spot?  Check back later in the week for some sneak peek pictures of our classroom.  I can't wait to see you on September 3rd!