If you haven't already been able to tell from my lack of posting...the school year has begun! One week ago from tomorrow one of my biggest dreams came true! I officially became "Miss Emeott" to the 24 sweetest babies I know! Check out some of our adventures below!
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| Our First Day Of School Card Photo! |
While the day, and week for that matter was a whirlwind tour, I cherished each and every moment. From good morning hugs, to staff meetings, to get to know you games, to class pictures, to planning, to read alouds, to routines, to procedures, to guidelines, to goodmorning/goodbye songs, to bus numbers, to parent phone calls, to emails, to copies, to laminating, to seat rearrangements, to LONG conversations with Julia, to laughs, to tears, to testing, to community circles, to objectives, to homework, to agenda, to smartboard, to the oops book, to smiles, and the list goes on and on and on. The amount of work and learning that takes place in one classroom on one day is absolutely incredible and I feel blessed that I play such a role in each of these moments.
For those of you who are unaware, I posted below an email that I sent home after my first day with the kids just to let the parents know what we had done all day...and this is only the first day of school!
"HAPPY FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!!!!
Congratulations to you all on making it through your first day of school as a parent of a third grader! And a big congratulations to your children for making it through their first day as a third grader! They did BEAUTIFULLY!!!! I was so proud to call them mine while they strolled so silently down the hall and when they were lined up so nice and straight when I picked them up from Lunch! I love them so much already and cannot thank you enough for raising such wonderful children and sharing them with me this year!
It is my goal, when your students return to you at the end of the day and you ask them what they did at school that day for them to not reply with "I don't know" or "Nothing". Because of this, we will bring closure to each of our days by discussing "how did I get smarter today?" Since today was the first day of school and quite busy, there was not time and so I will fill you in on what we did and how your children got smarter today!
1. Morning Business
- Your child learned where to hang up their backpack
- Your child learned where their table is, what color they are, and who their tablemates are...for now!
- Your child learned to make their lunch choice
- Your child learned where to put their lunch money
- Your child learned where to put their yummy lunches that you packed them :)
- Your child became familiar with the routine of coming QUICKLY AND QUIETLY to the rug once all of the above is finished
- Your child learned our bilingual good morning song that we will sing every morning...ask them to sing it for you! DO NOT ask them how well Miss Emeott sings :)
- Your child received a preview of the schedule for the day and the objectives that will be fulfilled that day...as they will every morning!
- Your child was introduced to "Good Morning News"...the way in which I hear ALL of the wonderful things that they are bursting to tell me each morning! (This is probably my favorite part of the day!)
2. Writing
- Your child answered questions about their summer and wrote questions about the third grade.
3. School Pride
- Your child got their picture taken individually, as a class, and as an entire school...my class was the best looking of course! :)
4. Community Building
- Your child got outside and interacted with the other children in the five other third grade classes through a fun community building activity...ask them about it!
5. SPECIALS
- Your child went to see Mr. Hay in the art room today! They played an art game and worked on their portfolios...he said they were well behaved, of course!
6. Routines, Procedures, Expectations, and Rules
- Your child rehearsed expectations for sitting on the rug
- Your child rehearsed expectations for sitting at their desk
- Your child rehearsed expectations for standing in line
- Your child rehearsed procedures for using the restroom
- Your child rehearsed expectations for giving me their attention
- Your child rehearsed procedures for transition times
- YOUR CHILD CREATED the five rules for our classroom this year
1 Listen when others are talking
2 Follow directions
3 Respect others, respect yourself, respect our school
4 Raise your hand to speak
5 be responsible, be safe, be honest
7. Lunch
- Your child demonstrated proper lunch procedures (taking what they ordered, cleaning their table, including others, etc.)
8. Reading
- Your child listened and responded to one of my FAVORITE read alouds EVER...Chrysanthemum.
9. Community Building
- Your child responded to Chrysanthemum and practiced procedures for our "community circle" by sharing their name and favorite color with the class
12. Supplies
- Your child demonstrated patience and kindness during the organization of school supplies (thank you parents for ALL of the school supplies! they truly are tools for learning and your children will benefit from them! if your child forgot something, I sent home a list with the highlighted item. I told your children to PLEASE not fret about missing items. if there is financial difficulty or you had trouble finding something, do not worry. we will take care of your child. i understand that the graph paper composition book is difficult to find...any form of graph paper will work!)
11. Writing/Fun!
- Your child created their first day of school card for you! (Please remind your child that it is part of their homework to share this card with a family memeber)
12. Agenda
- Your child was give their Coyote Hills Agenda (as a type-a personality I LOVE this tool for learning)
- Your child was introduced to and demonstrated proper procedures while filling out their homework in their agenda (homework for tonight: read 20 min from a book of their choice, share their first day card with a family member, complete green goals sheet and return to miss emeott in green communication folder tomorrow)
13. Goodbye Gathering
- Your child learned the procedures for our goodbye gathering
- Your child learned to check their mailbox
- Your child learned more about their communication folder
14. Made Miss Emeott Fall In Love!
- Most of all, your child totally stole my heart today! I love them all so dearly. They are sweet sweet students and I am so happy that you are loaning them to me this year! Please tell them how proud of them that I are and encourage them to keep up the good work!
Please do not hesitate to contact me with questions and concerns...we are a team!
Happy Monday!
Kindest,
Miss Emeott
Third Grade Teacher
Coyote Hills Elementary School
(720) 886-3980
PS: Thank you for all of the pictures this morning...you all made me feel like a celebrity :) I've attached our class picture to the email. If you all have pictures of me with your students and wouldn't mind, I would LOVE to have a copy as well!"
Congratulations to you all on making it through your first day of school as a parent of a third grader! And a big congratulations to your children for making it through their first day as a third grader! They did BEAUTIFULLY!!!! I was so proud to call them mine while they strolled so silently down the hall and when they were lined up so nice and straight when I picked them up from Lunch! I love them so much already and cannot thank you enough for raising such wonderful children and sharing them with me this year!
It is my goal, when your students return to you at the end of the day and you ask them what they did at school that day for them to not reply with "I don't know" or "Nothing". Because of this, we will bring closure to each of our days by discussing "how did I get smarter today?" Since today was the first day of school and quite busy, there was not time and so I will fill you in on what we did and how your children got smarter today!
1. Morning Business
- Your child learned where to hang up their backpack
- Your child learned where their table is, what color they are, and who their tablemates are...for now!
- Your child learned to make their lunch choice
- Your child learned where to put their lunch money
- Your child learned where to put their yummy lunches that you packed them :)
- Your child became familiar with the routine of coming QUICKLY AND QUIETLY to the rug once all of the above is finished
- Your child learned our bilingual good morning song that we will sing every morning...ask them to sing it for you! DO NOT ask them how well Miss Emeott sings :)
- Your child received a preview of the schedule for the day and the objectives that will be fulfilled that day...as they will every morning!
- Your child was introduced to "Good Morning News"...the way in which I hear ALL of the wonderful things that they are bursting to tell me each morning! (This is probably my favorite part of the day!)
2. Writing
- Your child answered questions about their summer and wrote questions about the third grade.
3. School Pride
- Your child got their picture taken individually, as a class, and as an entire school...my class was the best looking of course! :)
4. Community Building
- Your child got outside and interacted with the other children in the five other third grade classes through a fun community building activity...ask them about it!
5. SPECIALS
- Your child went to see Mr. Hay in the art room today! They played an art game and worked on their portfolios...he said they were well behaved, of course!
6. Routines, Procedures, Expectations, and Rules
- Your child rehearsed expectations for sitting on the rug
- Your child rehearsed expectations for sitting at their desk
- Your child rehearsed expectations for standing in line
- Your child rehearsed procedures for using the restroom
- Your child rehearsed expectations for giving me their attention
- Your child rehearsed procedures for transition times
- YOUR CHILD CREATED the five rules for our classroom this year
1 Listen when others are talking
2 Follow directions
3 Respect others, respect yourself, respect our school
4 Raise your hand to speak
5 be responsible, be safe, be honest
7. Lunch
- Your child demonstrated proper lunch procedures (taking what they ordered, cleaning their table, including others, etc.)
8. Reading
- Your child listened and responded to one of my FAVORITE read alouds EVER...Chrysanthemum.
9. Community Building
- Your child responded to Chrysanthemum and practiced procedures for our "community circle" by sharing their name and favorite color with the class
12. Supplies
- Your child demonstrated patience and kindness during the organization of school supplies (thank you parents for ALL of the school supplies! they truly are tools for learning and your children will benefit from them! if your child forgot something, I sent home a list with the highlighted item. I told your children to PLEASE not fret about missing items. if there is financial difficulty or you had trouble finding something, do not worry. we will take care of your child. i understand that the graph paper composition book is difficult to find...any form of graph paper will work!)
11. Writing/Fun!
- Your child created their first day of school card for you! (Please remind your child that it is part of their homework to share this card with a family memeber)
12. Agenda
- Your child was give their Coyote Hills Agenda (as a type-a personality I LOVE this tool for learning)
- Your child was introduced to and demonstrated proper procedures while filling out their homework in their agenda (homework for tonight: read 20 min from a book of their choice, share their first day card with a family member, complete green goals sheet and return to miss emeott in green communication folder tomorrow)
13. Goodbye Gathering
- Your child learned the procedures for our goodbye gathering
- Your child learned to check their mailbox
- Your child learned more about their communication folder
14. Made Miss Emeott Fall In Love!
- Most of all, your child totally stole my heart today! I love them all so dearly. They are sweet sweet students and I am so happy that you are loaning them to me this year! Please tell them how proud of them that I are and encourage them to keep up the good work!
Please do not hesitate to contact me with questions and concerns...we are a team!
Happy Monday!
Kindest,
Miss Emeott
Third Grade Teacher
Coyote Hills Elementary School
(720) 886-3980
PS: Thank you for all of the pictures this morning...you all made me feel like a celebrity :) I've attached our class picture to the email. If you all have pictures of me with your students and wouldn't mind, I would LOVE to have a copy as well!"
Yes ya'll, this is the kind of work that we do day in and day out! So, next time you hear someone refer to teaching as "doing arts and crafts all day long" or something that people do when they can't do anything else...I would encourage them to think twice!
As the days flew by and I left school at around 7 PM each night, only to go home and do MORE school stuff, I hardly realized that I was putting in 11 hour days! It is amazingly blessed to wake up each morning and get paid to do something that you absolutely adore! It also doesn't hurt that I have Miss Julia Phoenix right next door!
As Julia's husband would say...she is my "girlfriend"! We met each other almost two weeks ago while setting up our classrooms. There is no other word to describe Julia, but my little angel! Not only has she been a sweet sweet mentor to me through my first days of school, but she has been someone to laugh with, someone to cry with, someone to share with, someone to listen to, did I mention someone to laugh with?! We have been having SO MUCH FUN!!!! I couldn't ask for a better teacher to share a mobile with and friend to share fun times with! We have recently taken our fun out of the classroom for church, sushi, and all sorts of other fun adventures!
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| My Dear Sweet Julia Facilitating The Chaos! |
I could go on and on and on about my passion for children and teaching children. However, I am still in adjustment to this new school schedule! I have been waking up around 5:30 to get my workout in so that I am awake and moving for when the kids arrive at 9! Needless to say, I am very sleepy at nighttime and go to bed quite early! I will keep the blog update with the latest hilarious stories out of the mouths of third graders and priceless pictures!
This truly is a dream come true for me, I wish the same happiness, beauty, and contentment for each and every one of your lives as well!
I read your blog to Keeley tonight for her bedtime story. You are amazing and beautiful! I have tears streaming down my face!
ReplyDeleteWe are SO LUCKY to have a woman who is so passionate about teaching on our team!!! Now come over and see me more so we can do church and sushi too (except I don't like suchi) :) xoxo
ReplyDeleteMolly!!!! You are so sweet...definitely keep reading it to Miss Keeley, because she is beautiful and she needs to grow up knowing that! As if random strangers don't tell her enough :) Haha. I love you too. The pool was fun this weekend...lets plan dinner for next weekend or something! xoxo.
ReplyDeleteMarisa...you all inspire and motivate me so much! Our team is THE BEST!!!! Thank you for giving me this opportunity :) Haha. I know, lets do a happy hour again soon! xoxo.
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