The Start of a New School Year

August 5th...I was back in Cedar Falls and sitting in meetings...for a whole week. Time for a new school year!! After 3 days (Mon, Tues, and Fri) of meetings and 2 free days of unpacking, organizing and decorating my room, I was ecstatic to get back in the swing of the school year. I did spend about 3 hours on Saturday and 3 more on Sunday in my classroom getting it ready. It's not the easiest to set up in an empty classroom! but it is also fabulous because everything is mine and my way.

The official first day of school was this Wednesday, August 14th. I am at Lincoln Elementary in Cedar Falls in 2nd Grade! There are 4 of us on the 2nd grade team and our team is #1! "We're number 2, but we're #1!"~ What I hear every day. My team is HUHlarious! Love them so much!! One of them happens to be a good friend of mine...AND she just happens to also be my "mentor" this year. Perfect!! (A little politics that was just made easier.)

My team is fabulous, buuuut my class is just perfect! I am in a smaller classroom, so I can only have 18 kids!! Which is exactly how many I have in my room. Perfect. Simply perfect. My kids are so precious and they are so cuteeee! Adorable. I know, I know. It's only been 3 days, but they really are just a sweet group of kids. Good families. Good kids. I am LOVING it! I took a few pictures of my classroom, so I am posting those today but I am also planning on taking some more and writing a post that tours my classroom. Until then family and friends, know that I am beyond happy to have my own classroom and am loving every second of it more than I can explain! Teaching is definitely what I am supposed to be doing with my life.

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More to come soon!