Libraries

Hello,  blogging world!  Remember that post on Thursday night where I cursed the rain for a long commute home and was busy brainstorming ideas for indoor recess?  Well, all that rain brought some flooding to the area, and we actually didn't have school on Friday.  Initially, I was actually disappointed--I was ready for the day, and my kiddos were just starting to "get" being back in school.  I know, I know, give me a couple months and I bet I'll be begging for snow days, but as for Friday, I was ready to go!  Good news is that when I was planning for this week, Monday was already taken care of!

Because it was a day longer than planned, this three-day-weekend was pretty relaxing.  One of my favorite parts: a trip to the library :)  I.Love.Libraries.  I love the smell.  I love the sounds.  I love watching people at libraries--people doing work, people searching for the next "perfect" book to read, parents with their children, filling their bags with books to read before bed.  Everything about libraries, I love.  And, as one might be able to tell by my choice of profession, I have a special affinity to the children's section of the library.

This week, we are beginning to study the Pledge of Allegiance and what it means to be a good citizen in Social Studies, and in math we are practicing counting to 20, so I was able to find some great books on both topics.  I like to think that I have some great books in my classroom, but nothing makes me more excited than having even more, especially bringing in books pertaining exactly to what we are learning.  A couple of these have some tough words in them, but we just talked in class about how you can "read the pictures" in a book if you don't know the words (part of the Daily 5--a post on that coming soon!), and I found some fabulous picture books--literally!  I'm so excited to show these books to the kiddos this week!

Nothing makes me happier than a bag of books from the library!

Happy-Almost-Monday!  Cheers to Week 2!

Love from Room 106,
Allie