miss todd goes fourth: August 2011

Sunday, August 28, 2011

fourth grade fabulousness

It never occurred to me that teaching fourth grade would bring such happiness to my life. I mean, yeah, I love to teach and I love kids but I never thought I would be eager to grade papers or give a spelling test (haha, go ahead and laugh, but I'm totally serious!) or stay until 8 o'clock at night just to make sure everything was perfectly perfect for my sweet students the following morning.

Along with being obsessed with my class and their personalities and willingness to produce beautiful work, I'm slightly, overly obsessed with my classroom. I mean what teacher isn't?! I can't wait for Fridays just so I can rearrange the desks. Ha, I know, crazy, right?

With that said, here are some recent pictures of my masterpiece. I plan on rearranging every Friday to keep the atmosphere alive and the students guessing. Well, that is, until I run out of configurations. :)

happy blogging, friends!

xoxo

Saturday, August 6, 2011

sixteen days and counting

Since time is ticking and we're just weeks away from school starting, (thank goodness we didn't start when we were supposed to, oh, two days ago) the new fourth grade classroom is coming together quite nicely. We have come a looong way and I say we because I can't take any credit for my newly painted classroom. I have the most wonderful parents and I can't thank them enough for taking the weight off my shoulders with this project!!

So, thank you momma and daddy :)

It is now safe to say that I am ~~happy~~ elated to be teaching fourth grade and with each passing day, it grows more and more. I'm pretty sure I'm more excited than my students-to-be ;) It is going to be an amazing year! Did I mention that I was super, super pumped about teaching fourth grade? (because I totally am!)

Please excuse the random findings you see in the pictures below :) we're still in remodeling mode!