Surfin' Into 3rd Grade!

It has been a full 2 weeks of getting to know these kids!  I enjoy this time we have to share about ourselves and build community.  It's an important foundation for the rest of the school year.  The students also worked on a writing piece about themselves using our four-square organizer.
This writing gives me a good idea of where we are starting 3rd grade with their understanding of organizing ideas and how they write sentences.  The surfin' bobble heads that go with the writing were fun to create!

A bulletin board in our classroom has their self-portraits along with some information about themselves underneath.  They did a great job!  It was fun watching parents at Back to School Night trying to find and guess which one belonged to their kid!

Our class birthday wall is now full of birthday superheroes!  Our school has a "no-treat" birthday policy.  So, in our classroom, we celebrate with a special chair covering they get to use for the day, certificate and bracelet from me, and a very special birthday song!