2nd Day of 2nd Grade

Today we celebrated the 2nd day of 2nd grade! 

 

We counted by 2, did things twice, and made fun pencil toppers! 

First Day 2015-2016

First day of second grade was a success!!

We read this book...

And then wrote all about their new teacher

Then drank our "jitters" away by reading First Day Jitters and making our own Jitter Juice!

It was a hit! 18 children liked it and only 1 didn't. We graphed and tallied the number of students and had a (hot) great first day! 

Tuesday September 1st

Dear Parents...

Don't forget this TUESDAY is open house/meet the teacher/supply drop off! I will be there and so will all the teachers! Please try to stop in anytime from 4:30-6:30pm. 

I look forward to meeting you!

Mrs Giglio

Ready or Not

I think I'm ready!!! I still have a couple finishing touches left like adding name tags but I think it's ready for students! I just got my class list and the fun thing about moving up from a lower grade is seeing familiar faces on my list. It looks like a great class and I'm so excited to begin. 

welcome back

reading corner

Daily Events

Ready for supplies

bathroom passes

Daily schedule 

My personal favorite and much needed Germ Juice

Moving In

A new classroom is like moving into a new house...a big mess 😉. 

I have started getting the classroom ready and it's been hard work but it's fun to start from scratch and get excited for new students!

Let's call this the before picture...

See that little helper in the middle? 

Day 2 

Making a dent. Not as many boxes left. 

Also a little project for open house, popcorn for parents who pop in to see me. 

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New Year: New Name

For those of you who haven't heard yet I have been asked to teach second grade next year below is my Facebook post from the last day of school...

Today, on the last day of kindergarten, I was honored to attend the West Seneca East Class of 2015 high school graduation of my very first group of kindergarten students! 13 years ago they became kindergarteners and I became a teacher! As I watched them cross the stage today I can't begin to explain how proud I am that I got to be  their very first teacher in this journey. With that said I can also announce that my life has come full circle as I too will be "graduating" with them. I have been asked to say goodbye to kindergarten and move on to teach second grade next year. I am excited to begin this new adventure and hope that I am as lucky to teach as many amazing kids in second grade as I have in kindergarten.

Me and one of my "kindergarteners"

As the summer is now in full swing I still have mixed emotions about leaving my little learners behind for the "big kids" well maybe not exactly huge but second grade seems big to me. I really think second grade is going to be amazing but I had so much of my identity wrapped up into being a kindergarten teacher, I know how 5 year olds tick (and boy is my son in trouble in a few years if he thinks his mom can be fooled, in 13 years I've seen just about everything.) As far as 7 year olds well hopefully I'm a quick learner! So with the bittersweet feeling of leaving the littles behind the real work begins preparing. One of the best parts of moving up to second I think will be getting to see some of the same faces I taught as a kindergarten teacher. At the end of the year I told my kinders I was moving, I couldn't hide that I was packing the entire room (13 YEARS of materials) into boxes and one of the sweetest things I've ever read was this note from Sean:

So hopefully you will enjoy my second grade blog and come along (become a follower) to watch how this adventure unfolds this upcoming year! 

Goodbye room 108

Who said teachers don't work during the summer?  This is me taking advantage of naptime getting organized...  

a big thank you to Karen at: http://kennedyskornerblog.blogspot.com

for the jump start getting organized! Follow her blog and head to her TPT site for some great resources! 

I also bought some new take home binder organization pages on TPT for my Super Second graders! 

Excited to celebrate the SECOND day of SECOND grade with my class this year! I will share more about this in my next post. 

And finally a shoutout to my Godmother for helping me rename this blog! I had so many great suggestions from friends on Facebook it was hard to decide but Second Helpings seemed to fit! Come back soon for another helping!