1st Day of 2nd Grade

Being the first day of "school" for me, I was fairly nervous, yet very excited to return to second grade. The teacher wasn't in class today, which was a little bit unnerving especially since I really didn't know any of the kids. We sat down to morning meeting and introduced ourselves to each other. I tried to catch all 17 names while attempting to avoid the typical second grade introduction, which included trying to tell me everything there is to tell me about their lives. We started the day off by working on cinquain poems, in which I helped the kids figure out nouns, verbs, and adjectives that would describe the members of their family. The entire morning consisted of organizing and studying new spelling words, writing poetry, and finishing literacy and skill work. The kids immediately warmed up to me and seemed to feel very comfortable asking me for help with their work, or just asking me questions about myself. After lunch and recess, I went with the class to their tech lab time in which they worked on brochures of endangered animals. I walked around correcting grammar, helping them to make their sentences a little bit more coherent. For the rest of the afternoon I sat in the classroom assembling "travel journals" and poetry books for the kids, as well as typed up poems that they had previously written. Before I knew it, it was 2:45, and the class was ready to go home. It was a very exciting yet tiring day to say the least. Second graders are quite difficult to keep up with! Although I came into my first day slightly nervous, it was very relieving to know that the class was happy to welcome me into their classroom.