WILW

What I'm loving Wednesday!

I'm loving..school! 1st grade rocks! I have 22 awesome students and a ton of awesome co-workers!

My sign from the first day is on left and on the right is the gift I got on my first day from a Mrs. Appleby!

Two of my friends from work today at school...notice how we are all wearing purple....Even though we are all neighbors on the 600 hall, we did NOT plan it!! Thought it was photo worthy though :)

I'm loving..my pampered chef cooking gadgets! I made this before school started but forgot to blog about it :)

I'm loving... my mid morning boosts. I am a good balance of my mom (the coke) and my daddy (snickers bar). Haha!

I'm loving..the note my sister left me on my white board in our classroom!

I'm loving.. my cat! This is a picture I took of Coco over the weekend :)

I'm loving...my fiance! I am ready for October 22nd..I won't bore you with the days (52 more) haha

Happy Wednesday!

loving it!

Yesterday my friend, Anna, posted about McDonalds and now I can't get the song out of my head haha! This is the reason for my title and sort of my reason for my post :)

Today, I got a delivery of my supply order. WOW!! WOW! WOW!!! I LOVE these buckets. I am typically a very organized person and I have felt kind of scattered the past two/three weeks. Today, I spent the afternoon organizing, sorting, filing and dividing my room. Boy was I excited! These bins have Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday on them with five folders in each. I will put math, phonics, reading and responding, science/ss and an extra section label on each of them. I was so excited to get this set up and start filing stuff :) Its the little things sometimes that can make your day!!

When my mom was here this weekend, she brought my bench. I paid $3 for this bench last year at a yard sale. It was a god awful shade of green with an ugly/messed up seat cover. Mom threw away the seat cover and started from scratch with remaking it and then sanding and repainting my bench! It is so cute! Thanks mom!

First week

My kids made the cutest books last week for their first week in first grade. My planning team shared them with me and I enjoyed all the responses the kids had for the pages.

First page: Their picture from the first day of school with room for them to write their name and at the top the title (My First Week in First Grade)

2nd page: Room for them to draw a picture with My first day in first grade then they write the date.

3rd page: Room for them to draw a picture with I go to (they fill in school info: NMBP) where Everybody's Somebody at NMBP.

4th page: Room for them to draw a picture with My first grade teacher is: insert my name :)

5th page: Room for them to draw a picture with one of my new friends is: insert classmates name

6th page: Room for them to draw a picture with The best thing about this week was: (some of my favorite responses came here).

They are such a great group of kids!

Todd Bridal Shower

As I alluded to last night, I had a great time at my "Welcome to the Family" shower that Cody's family threw me yesterday. I didn't go into all the details about it because I wanted to spend time with my mom and sister  last night :)

Love this-Tracie wrote it ;)

Cake

Hostesses :)

Mom, sis and me

Cassidy and me

My sister in law, Ali and Cassidy (her daughter/my niece)

Cassidy was my gift opener :)

Cody loved our new silverware...

and the mixers from our moms :)

Thanks everyone for coming!!

Whew!

Whew..I have a lot to blog about but it will have to delay until tomorrow...

My mom and sister with my grandparents arrived in town today. Since Hurricane Irene cleared out fast with minimal damage (thank goodness!), my family came in today. We met in Conway for lunch with Cody then my grandfather and Cody came to my apartment while Mom, Nana, Carson (my sister) and me went to look at my wedding dress and my sister's bridesmaids dress. Afterwards, we went to a shower thrown by my future family!! We had such a great time and I was feel so welcomed by the Todd family!

A note Tracie made

Our cake from Cakes by the Sea (they love us there)-thanks Tracie for such a cute idea!! The picture is from front of invite :)

Shower Hostesses-Grandma Todd, Aunt Tracie, Mrs. Ward, and Aunt Peggy Ann!

Thanks so much everyone!

More pictures coming tomorrow!!

Week

I had a great week with my kids this week. With the impending hurricane irene coming, it was a hot topic in class. At lunch today, one of my kids asked me if the hurricane was here because it was raining so hard. Such a sweet innocent comment from a six year old :)

All we have had is rain today and strong winds. I am cuddled on the couch watching a movie with Cody. My sweet kiddos shared there germs and we were all sneezing up a storm today. Praying my throat stops hurting. Enjoying no strings attached with Cody :)

yummy!

Thankful for the people I work with... it's the little things that people do that help your day. Especially when you don't expect it.

My neighbor Mrs. Todd got me hooked on these..

Target has them on sale this week :)

Its the little things that make a teachers day!

WILW

Its Wednesday and its time for WILW!! Link up here to join Jamie!

I'm loving..my 22 new friends from my classroom :)

I'm loving..how helpful Cody has been in my room!

I'm loving..sitting on my couch with Coco. She is such a good cat!

I'm loving...how great being a teacher is but how totally exhausting it is! haha

I'm loving..my fiance...in less than two months I will be his Mrs.!

One of our engagement pictures that we took with Melissa Groves (our wedding photographer from Gene Ho) this past weekend!

Sorry for the short list..I am tired :)

Blog Hopper

I found this great resource just a second ago through The First Grade Parade. She links with Blog Hoppin to have Teacher Talk Tuesday.

WoW! As a first year teacher, I found some great tips! I won't even attempt to join yet but these are great suggestions!

1st day :)

Today was the first day of school! Wow was it a great day but boy oh boy am I exhausted!! I have a great group of kids and I can't wait to get to know them better!

got my ginger ale!

Hope all the teachers and students had a great day!