First Day Fun!

Today was the first day with my new nuggets. Man, they are cute! I think this might be one of those groups I just super fall in love with. Of course, this was just day one, so we'll re-evaluate after the honeymoon phase is over. I do tend to fall in love fast and hard, but usually it sticks, so I'm feeling pretty good!

I have an interesting schedule this year:

See that pink spot there, that's pretty much all the learnin' time I have for my new nuggets. I'm not sure how exactly I'm going to squeeze it all in, but here are a couple of things we did today. First we played the name game. We made a big circle and the kids had to describe themselves with an alliterative adjective. Then we tossed the ball and the kids had to say all the kids who came before them and then add their name. We helped each other out, it's kind of hard to remember all those names in a row! They were all giggly and silly and it got them out of their seats for a bit. Really though, that game is kind of for me. It really helps me remember their names! We had Fun Francisco, Difficult Daniel, Active Alyssa, Lazy Luca just to name a few...

Next up -  Get Ready for Second Grade Amber Brown balloon pop! I read the book and then we each took turns popping a balloon that had a comprehension question rolled up inside. (I recruited a parent to do the balloon blowing and stuffing at our Sneak a Peek on Friday). I don't have the questions to share with you all. I was just given a printed copy by one of my teamies. I'll try to scan it to share in the next few days, but really you can just type up some easy-peasy questions and cut them up. It was seriously nothing fancy - but the kids L-O-V-E-D it! Turns out their little booties were not really big enough to pop the balloons, so I may have helped them along with secretive swipe of a push pin...

The only other thing we really got to was our first day handprint puzzle. I really have no idea where this originally came from. I don't think it's anything anyone was selling, but if it is - someone please tell me! Until I'm arrested by the copyright police you can download it from GoogleDocs {HERE}.

I ordered blank puzzles from Amazon which you can find {HERE} and then we each traced our handprint and colored in the whole thing, glued the poem onto an envelope and took the puzzle apart and put it inside, sealed it up and sent it home! 

All in all, a pretty fun day. We also listened to the Indie Children's station on Pandora most of the day and they really seemed to dig it. That made me happy happy because last year's kids did NOT dig the whole music thing. They preferred to talk loudly OVER the music which just annoyed me to no end so eventually I just stopped trying. It was so nice to play it today and have the kids actually like it and listen to it and giggle to the silliness of some of the songs. Like I said, I think I'm falling in love...