Meet the Teacher and FIRST day of school!

AMAZING! and EXHAUSTED! Those two words sum up everything. I absolutely love my students and their families. I am in a totally different demographic than I am used to, but so far, I am loving it! The families are very involved in their child's education, which is fabulous! Today went as smoothly as it could. I even did my favorite team building activity. However, I made it a STEM group project instead. I did the spaghetti noodle and marshmallow tower building activity. However, it was set up like a science lab where they had to plan, execute and write a lab report after. To include math, the students had the following prompt.

"You have $400 to split between your team. Each marshmallow cost $10. Each spaghetti noodle cost $5. How many marshmallows and spaghetti noodles can you use to build your tower. Your goal is to use the least amount of money and build the tallest tower possible."

The kids LOVED it! Here are some pictures I got that do not have any kids in them...

Enjoy the pictures! I only did this with one of my two sets of classes. Remember, I teach math and science twice to two different homerooms. Tomorrow, I plan to do this activity in the other class! Can't wait to see how the other group does this! :)

Also- two things that made my day. 

1. This amazing letter I received first thing in the morning... ( I grayed out the childs name and parent signature)

2. We FINALLY have our school copier up and running! And get this, it actually can HOLE PUNCH and STAPLE things for you! My life just got 3248370592798374 times easier! Since we don't have textbooks yet, I literally made math packets of the textbook so we can actually start teaching content! So excited!

GREAT day overall. Can't wait to do it again tomorrow. And I only spent 12 hours at school today. Hopefully I can get this down to like 9 or 10 on average, but 12 hours seems to be the norm for the past week. :)

Hope everyone else had a great day!

-Michelle