Back to School!

It seems kind of hard to believe that I am beginning my 16th year of teaching!  I only have 16 more to go until I can retire!  Oh, boy.  This year, I went with a Hollywood theme and it's been pretty fun so far!  My mom helped me shop for some material to use for the red curtains on this bulletin board.The material has small gold polka dots and is very cute!  I will hang student work on this board in the hallway throughout the school year.

I brought my director's chair to school this year, and it is quite comfortable to sit in and read aloud or check my emails during planning time. I also added some decoration to the top of my whiteboard in the form of gold, silver, and black streamers.

For my Open House/Meet the Teacher night, I had a small gift for each family in the form of a bag of microwave popcorn with a note attached saying, "Thanks for popping in. Please come again!  Mrs. Konecny, Room 134."  I left it out, along with my parent info. packet (brochure) for the first day of school and handed them out to the parents who weren't able to attend Open House.  I think it was a hit!

 For the first day of school for my students, I put down a red carpet for them to walk on into the room and wore a fancy, black and sparkly dress.  It was fun!

Parental Controls on my Internet Access?

In talking with Patrick today, I told him that I may have a "problem."  I have been reading lots of teacher blogs and finding all kinds of resources.  I have found a couple of "pay" sites where I have downloaded resources for my Hollywood theme for my classroom.  He suggested we put parental controls on my Internet so I can't buy any more teacher stuff.  Oh, well.  Then Patrick said he may have to call my Dad to come over here and do it...ha ha...since he's my parent.

Over the last week and half or so, I have posted several teacher links on my facebook page.  Some blogs and web sites I have found helpful are listed below.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/   Teachers Pay Teachers for stuff they have created--reasonable prices and most are basically "instant" downloads after your payment has gone through.

http://clutterfreeclassroom.blogspot.com/  An AWESOME blog!  Lots of archived stuff, too.

http://jessicaywinston.blogspot.com/  And one more AWESOME teacher blog!  I got tons of ideas here.