On New Agents and Bookbins.

 

Today I want to start off by doing something I should've done for a while:  formally introducing our very own Agent J.

 

 

You might have seen him in some of our pictures in the past few posts and thought to yourself, "I wonder who that is?" Agent J. began in November as a part-time student, doing art and music with us. After Christmas break he joined us as a full-time student, and we've had tons of fun! The other Agents really love having him in the classroom, and everyone gets along so swimmingly. Welcome to the blog, Agent J!

 

So! The past two weeks have been quiet but busy, and will probably prove to be the calm before the storm considering how much we've got going on in February. Here are some of the things we've gotten up to since our last blog post:

 

We've been hard at work on sight words, letter sounds, and word building.

 

We've helped each other out and worked together.

 

We've done fifteen thousand morning sentences.

 

We've tumbled around in Creative Movement.

 

We've had fun with snow and colored ice.

We've celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and talked about our dreams.

 

We made grilled cheese sandwiches and haystacks (not pictured). 

 

We got a free book from the electric company. (Thanks, guys!)

 

We've started an afterschool program in tandem with Little Treasures Child Care.

 

 

We've decorated our bulletin boards.

 

We've begun the tedious process of putting our super-cool-new-and-improved library together. This is one of the reasons I decided to skip the post last week instead of making it up after technical difficulties on Sunday. When we finally got started on the project, it escalated quickly. One moment I'm picking up my fancy new bookbins...

 

... and in the next some nice gentlemen from Thorton Academy are (very gently and 100% under orders) dumping most of the library's books on my floor.

Well, that escalated quickly.

So, after rearranging everything so it looked more presentable and the kids could access their workboxes...

...and after cataloging several bins with the help of our lovely Miss Candace (Agent J.'s mother)...

I came to one horrible realization (for about the zillionth time this year):  we don't have enough space for all the books.

Duhn duhn duuuuuuhn....

Several shelves were occupied by other things, like games and craft supplies and blocks. We hope to build shelves into the back of the school to make an official library, but in the meantime, something had to be done. So I went and got myself a shoe rack and a Rubbermaid drawer thing (not pictured) and set to work moving things around.

And this is what it looks like now, more or less. I did a little bit of work reorganizing some things on the shelves with random stuff in them yesterday, so it looks even better than this, but! How spiffy are my book bins, you guys?

Answer: so spiffy.

And that's about it! Next week is going to be pretty crazy, with National School Choice Week and the 2nd Annual Realtor's Breakfast and prep for a field trip on February 3 - so I'd better go make sure I have everything ready for it. I just looked at the clock and realized it's only half past one; I bet some of you are in shock at how early this is being posted.

 

You're welcome.

 

God bless,

Mia ;)