Settling In

It feels as though everything is starting to settle down and fall into the routines that we are used to having in our classroom. It's always interesting to have to "start over" teaching routines and adding different "choices" into the Daily 5 menu. I have to remind myself that these students need to be taught the routines...it doesn't come automatically! Some students are starting to show that they are more comfortable in school as some behaviors start to rise. That all about learning the routines as well. It is always a challenge at our school as things don't seem to settle in until after powwow. Although we start teaching on day 1. Groupings and PLCs are in full effect until the week after powwow and that is when testing starts so it seems like it will be a week after that even. So next week, we should be confident in our groups to start the year. And interventions will start for 2nd grade although there are still some grades that are still testing!  Here we go! I can't wait to see the progress now that we have all the baseline scores in place!