First Day of Kindergarten!!

Wow it's been a while! These are some portions of my room, but keep in mind I don't have recent pics of the finished product.  I will though.  I have to tell you about my first day of Kindergarten!!!  I love my kids they are all so adorable and great kids. Two things: 

1.  SO...pretty much almost the WORST thing I swear could happen to you on the first day..or any day, happened to me.  One of my little girls came around the corner from our coat racks and she had BLOOD GUSHING down her face.  I am not exagerating at all.  Puh-lease.  This is no joke.  I cannot even see her face because it has blood all over it and it just keeps coming out.  Her hands are pooling with blood because she was catching it.  She says to me in a sweet little voice: "Mrs. Peterson, I'm bleeding."  UH.....YEAH YOU ARE.  My heart stopped.  But I kept it calm because I didn't want to freak the other kids out (which worked because only one noticed and that was because he saw her).  So I said "WHAT HAPPENED!?"  As I start walking her to the door.  She apparently knocked her face into one of the coat hooks.  And it split her eyebrow open.  The office helped clean her up and her mom took her home.  YEAH try breaking THAT news to a mom on the first day of kindergarten!! "Um yes, your daughter hit her head on the coat hook and is bleeding all over the place." No I didn't put it that way.  But you know what I mean.  She will be fine, might have a black eye and stitches.  But she acted like NOTHING happened.  She said it didn't even hurt.  Wow.  That was crazy and I hope it never happens again.  My class didn't even notice! 

2.  This adorable little girl cut 5 inches off her hair!!  I just looked over and there she was cutting her hair!  Her mom seemed to handle it pretty well when I told her after school. 

 

Anyways so besides those two things, it was a fantastic day!  We learned "a" and "1" and "blue."

 

Let me talk about teaching.  I have been busier than any other time in my life.  This is my first year teaching.  I teach Kindergarten AM and PM.  All the teachers I know kept telling me how busy I was going to be and how hard teachers work, so I was prepared.  At least a little.  I seriously work so hard everyday.  I put hours and hours in, like 10 a day sometimes.  It has gotten better now that my room is set up.  BUT I have to tell you I absolutely LOVE IT!!  It's a different kind of work.  It's not sit at your desk, file, answer phones work.  It's like a whole other realm.  I cut, color, paste, laminate, make hundreds of copies, laminate thousands of things, organize my curriculum each week, sing, decorate my room, and a ton more!  I manage 46 four and five year olds AND their parents!  I love it.  I love them.  I love teaching.  I have to hand it to all you teachers out there (Brittani!!) because you are my role models and I hope I am as good as you some day!  AND I have to hand it to Jake because he sure puts up with alot.  Me coming home later sometimes, spending hundreds on school stuff (I will be reimbursed).  He helped me set up my Phonics Picture Library for over an hour last night!  Anyway sorry I don't have recent pics but I will get there.  Maybe when I am off track (in two weeks) I will take some pics with the kids work on their walls! Stay tuned before then though.