2015-16! Time to commit to weekly posting on this blog!

It's a new year and 2016-17 is off to a great start! Our staff members each made an introduction video for the new bunch of trailblazers. Check out the playlist here.

And here we are venturing into year 2 of our new school with a bit of spunk. We welcomed a new 5th grade teacher, Mr. Knight. Life is good!

Daniel (the 5th grade newbie, Chad, Me, and Kelly)

I really miss last years 5th graders, but these new kiddos are incredibly easy to love! We set up a green screen photo booth and parents had the option to take a picture with their 5th grader at open house. What a fun way to see kids interact and be silly with their families.
Here is the slideshow:

We all jumped into flexible seating head first. We've had to tweak a few things... change out uncomfortable stools for more comfy ones, get rid of certain desks for tables.. etc.  The kids made rules for the seating and things are beginning to feel familiar.  

I do need to assign seats at during carpet time. A few boys are rolling around the ball chairs, and army crawling on the floor... so not cool, but I am confident we'll soon get this figured out.

Since I'm type A about keeping our room picked up and free of clutter, there are some rules regarding their supplies. All supplies are either in a labeled drawer or a cubby.
This is how we organized them...

Glue bottles, tape, expo markers, and extra supplies (pencils) are stored in community drawers. There is actually quite a bit of room when supplies are organized.

Here are a few pics of the classroom:

I'm excited to get started with Readers Workshop, Writers Workshop, and Genius Hour! Our blogs are set up at this address: Mrs. Thiery's Classroom Blog . Please stop and visit.

We'll also be tweeting @MrsThierysClass and #TrailBlazeOn. We'd love to connect!