I am so excited to start a new school year with all of my sweet Firsties and their families. We had a great turn out for meet the teacher last night and I enjoyed putting sweet faces to the names I have written a hundred times. I have worked extremely hard to get our room ready for a successful year.
Just want to let you know a few things for the next couple of weeks. We only do snacks for the first 2 weeks of school. I know you are use to snacks every day in Kindergarten so I wanted to give you the heads up. We try to keep them from getting too hungry those first couple of weeks so we squeeze in snacks at 2:00. After we get going though, it really just doesn’t make sense to keep giving them a snack at 2:00 when they will be home by 3:00. Our schedule is just so different. Lunch ends at 11:15, we go to special classes (P.E., Music, etc…) at 1:15 and our Science and Social Studies time is at 2:00.
First Grade is so jam-packed so it is sooooo important that our littles get here by 7:45 if at all possible. Our day starts in full swing at 8:00 and we don’t stop until 2:45! I understand there will be times that mornings get crazy, believe you me, but try because if you could see their little faces when they come in even 1 or 2 minutes late it would break your heart.
We will have a Parent Orientation soon to explain how our room works, reading levels, grade level expectations, writing, etc… please try your best to come to that. It will make a huge difference in how you view your kiddos education and our classroom.
I am so looking forward to loving on your sweeties this year. Thank you for trusting me with them!!!