175 more days of fun!

It's 7:40 P.M. on a Friday and I just completed my first week of school.  Sleep is in the near future.

I had a great week with my firsties!  Monday we did a lot of singing, dancing and name games.  A few students told me that it was the best first day of school E.V.E.R.!! I was so relieved that the first day went as smoothly as it did.

goody bag for the first day of school

The rest of the week consisted of going over rules, procedures, and doing art projects.  The students also reviewed letter sounds and how to count by fives and tens.  Since all of the students made it through their first week of first grade (as in-didn't cry everyday), they received Magic Dough!  I spotted this cute idea on Sarah Cooley's blog First Grader...At Last!

...then I wrapped white play dough around it

I did orange play-doh for the boys and pink for the girls

I told the kids that if their magic play-doh turned colors, that meant that they would have a great year in first grade! One by one they screamed with excitement when their dough turned into a color.  "Yes! I will have a great year!"  hehehe I loved it


What is the first week of school without some getting to know you activities!?  The class ended the week with Show & Tell.  The students were allowed to have a Q&A segment after showing their goodies from home.   I thought I would participate in all of the sharing fun.....

Nearly died laughing with all of the oooohs and ahhhs when I whipped this out for Show & Tell :-)
 {My teacher's helper was the photographer eek}