School Starts MONDAY: August 1, 2011!!!!!

Well, ready or not, it's time for a NEW SCHOOL YEAR!!!!!!!!!!! Make sure you get some rest this weekend because Monday is the beginning of a new year with a new group of 5th-graders!!!! Looking forward to meeting MY CLASS!!!!!!

Open House on Thursday! (July 28, 2011)

Are you ready to meet your teacher?????? I.W. Taylor's Open House will be this Thursday from 4-6pm! I am soooooooooooooooooo excited about meeting my homeroom and getting our year off to a GREAT start!!!! See you then!!!

No More Changing Classes!!!!!!

Well, there is going to be a big change at Taylor Elementary and I am so excited! We are NOT going to be changing classes anymore. The homeroom teacher will teach EVERYTHING to her homeroom class! That will save soooooooooooooooo much time! This is called a self-contained class and research shows that it is really helpful for students to be in a self-contained class so I am excited about it! I've taught like this before when I first started teaching 5th grade in Halifax County and I LOVED it!
I was able to go in last week to my classroom and get some things unpacked and cleaned out and of course THIS coming week, teachers officially go back to school. Open House is Thursday! Can't WAIT to meet my new group of students!!!!!

Supply List

Some of the new 5th-grade students may have lost the supply list we sent home at the end of the school year. Here's the list so you can start getting your supplies ready!

*3 inch ring binder (YES you will need one that big!)
*(8) dividers for the binder (do not write on them yet)
*glue sticks
*pencils for personal use (no mechanical pencils please)
*1 pack of 12 pencils for classroom use
*(10) packs of notebook paper
*colored pencils
*crayons
*erasers for the pencils
*(5) boxes of tissues
*scissors
*10 multicolored highlighters
*pencil box or pouch
*ruler
*protractor (the clear, cheap kind)
*(6) packs of 3X5 index cards
*Index card file box
*1 box of gallon-sized ziplock bags
*1 box of quart-sized ziplock bags
*optional: 1 spray can of Lysol disinfectant spray

Just A Few More Weeks...........

Well, the summer is quickly flying by and soon it will be time to start a new year, meet new students, and get busy with Back To School! I sure hope my new students are getting a lot of rest and having a safe and fun summer break. I also hope that they are reading and keeping up their skills as well as practicing the Math that they learned last year! Hopefully they all know their multiplication facts!!! I also hope that the 5th graders I taught this past year are working on maintaining their skills as they get ready to go to the Middle School!!!!! Remember that every year builds upon the one before it! Don't lose your skills! Yes, summer is for having fun and relaxing, but you don't want to lose all of that knowledge that you worked so hard to attain!!!! Enjoy the rest of your summer!!!!