First Day of School!

At the end of the day today we reinforced our school's theme, Follow in His Steps, based on 1 Peter 2:21 ("To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His steps.") 

It was an ambitious idea - and actually an original idea - for the first day of school, but I was impressed with how well it went.  The water got pretty dirty pretty quickly.  Sometimes Kindergarten gets messy, but it is lots of fun!  No more painting though, until everyone has their paint shirt at school, because next time we will paint with our hands.  :)  If you want to see the final product, it is hanging outside the front office.

We did some initial writing samples today, so I have a baseline of how children write their names, draw pictures, and write.  This child's picture shows he went to Mount Rushmore this summer.

This child drew a turtle and wrote the letters TR - great Kindergarten writing.  I'm so excited to see how their writing grows over the year!

We also did a 3 minute number writing assessment.  We'll do this once a month.  At the end of the year you will get them all so you can see how much growth and progress has been made (the quantity of numbers, the quality of them, even things like learning to write across, instead of down...)

Side note: don't forget that next Wednesday is Peter Piper Pizza Night - show up and help the school raise money.  The money goes to the school Auxiliary and helps us buy wonderful new things for our classroom, like the above ink pads (yes, more messiness is coming up tomorrow!)

 We had a great first day and I'm sure we'll also have a great second day!