Welcome to OUR HOUSE!

Today we spun the wheel to find out if we were in the house of creativity, courage, leadership, or service!! We had a lot more courageous friends than we realized! It was so exciting to spin the wheel and finally know what house we were in. Next week we will find out who else is in each of our houses!

Lots of Firsts

This year is going to be jam packed with lots of FIRSTS for me. This is my first year teaching second grade. My first year teaching the same group (mostly) of kids for more than one year,  first year teaching standards based, and our first year having our School Within a School program. It is such an exciting time for us at SWS. We have worked since last December planning and meeting trying to determine the direction to take this fabulous opportunity we have been given and now we are finally living it and seeing all our dreams unfold. It is so exciting, rewarding, scary, great, and a million other emotions!
We know that this is going to be a great year. We have an awesome group of teachers to work with, wonderful kids, and amazing parents who all want to work together to see our kids excel! We want them to reach milestones they never thought possible, we want to see them become the amazing people they are destined to become!
If you want more information about what School Within a School is check out our school website http://albertvillesws.weebly.com or our school Facebook page SWS at Albertville or feel free to email me kluce@albertk12.org. Follow my blog to stay up to date on the exciting things going on in my second grade classroom this year!

Movin' On Up

I have moved with 13 of my firsties from last year and 5 new fabulous additions to second grade! We are loving our new classroom and all of our hands on learning we have done so far! An exciting and fun start to what will be a GREAT year!!!

   

Ready to hatch chicks.

Thanks to some wonderful donors at donorschoose.com we have all the materials to hatch baby chicks in our classroom. We will get our eggs tomorrow from another fabulous donor and we are so excited for this adventure!

Snow!!!

We had to have a little fun in the snow this morning! We only stayed for a few minutes but it sure was fun!

Police Visit

This week we are learning about community helpers and we had a visit from Aiden's dad. Officer Burns is a policeman in Douglas. He brought us badges, let us check out his car and equipment, and answered all our questions!! Thanks for coming Officer Burns!!

Fall fun!

These are the cutest scarecrows I've ever seen!