Reflections on my first year at Sunflower! 2011-2012

 I am so thankful to have the opportunity to teach first grade at Sunflower!  It was an amazing year. Although it was not my first year of teaching,  it was my first year of teaching full-time in many years, so it felt like my first year of teaching.  I am blessed to have gone through training with dear friends I met at induction--Molly Soukup, Summer Smith, and Meg Roggero.  The training seemed a bit overwhelming at times but we learned so much!  It was hard to implement everything we learned and this upcoming year will be a wonderful opportunity to try many new things that were hard to implement in the first year.  

My students were wonderful and made so much progress.  I am so proud to see them walking down the halls as proud second graders!  We had some great memories last year.  I am glad I got an "inventory" on what they remember and loved about first grade at the end of the year.  

Kaden says "I loved the field trip to the aquarium--it was awesome!"

Abby, Morgann, and Owen said they loved learning how to read and write better!

And almost all of the first graders agree that the most memorable moment in first grade was the day Miss Nieder brought her boxer dog, Deke, to school a few days after he ate a huge thing of chocolate!  This made her stay up all night and her wonderful first graders wrote him all kinds of letters to brighten Deke and Miss Nieder's day.  He decided to visit them and boy did he get excited. But Chris learned not to leave the door open!  Deke escaped and ran into Mrs. Roggero's kindergarten. Yikes!  

Thank you to all of last years kiddos and their families for making it an amazing year I will never forget.