We're Back!!

Sorry for the hiatus on the blog, I was busy having one of these...

My husband and I welcomed a beautiful baby boy (I call him "The Squish") in early May, and I spent all summer cuddling and smooching my sweet boy - and trying not to think about leaving him in the fall :-(.

Alas, the school year came around and through many many tears, I kissed my sweet boy goodbye and embarked on my third year of teaching second grade. I must say, there has been some divine intervention with my class this year (someone must have known I was in a fragile state this year!), and my class is seriously the class you dream about having. They are absolutely fantastic, and they make leaving my baby boy each morning a little less hard.

That being said, lets get down to business! I'm going to backtrack a little here - seeing as it's the third week of school, and I'm just now sitting down to blog! The first week we started off with several get to know you games.

Starting the year out right with a snowball fight! 

One of the biggest hits of the first week was a class snowball fight. I had the students write three things that were true about themselves, and one lie on a piece of paper. Then they crumbled up the piece of paper, and I put the song "happy" on and we had a three minute snowball fight. When the song ended, the students grabbed the piece of paper that was nearest to them and tried to guess who it belonged  to. The kiddos LOVED this activity, and are still asking me when we are going to do it again.

We also had a find a friend scavenger hunt, and made an adorable Scaredy Squirrel craftivity that I found here on TpT.

I love how you can see each student's personality! 

Well, this post is getting quite lengthy and wordy, so I think I will end here today - but I will be back tomorrow with a fun questioning unit and a freebie!

Don't forget to leave a comment and tell me...

1. What did you do / what are your plans for the first week of school?
2. What was your favorite activity in the first few days when you were at school?