New Year Celebration: School Style!

The new year is here! Hello 2017! While many of us celebrated NYE and the beginning of our new year with family, friends, and loved ones.....well I didn't get to celebrate it with my kiddos and who doesn't want to throw a celebration again? (nobody, that's who!)

So Wednesday night I went and raided the Wal-Mart clearance section for tons of cheap celebration goodies. You can't pass up $0.75 for a pack of glasses! Then on Thursday, we discussed as a class what students did, what the new year means for some, and what it means for our class: This is a continuance of our learning but a new year to start off however we decide.  Then we got down to celebration mode! Cue the decorations and countdown. (and no celebration is complete without confetti.....)

 Wait for it......

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! HELLO 2017!

 Even Mrs. Payne from across the hall wanted to join in the fun!

Of course, what happens after every good celebration? The cleanup, of course. There is NO WAY we could leave that mess for our wonderful custodians (let alone continue to function in the room that afternoon) so we set to cleanup duty!

 Afterwards we jotted down our goals for the year using an updated 2017 New Year Celebration sheet that you can grab from TpT!

Some goals we had:
- Read: science, more, Junie B., less
- Learn: to read better, talk less, math, facts, more, better
- Try: to stay calm, apples, be nice, my best, harder, to listen
- Do more: have fun, learn, read, write
- Do less: be mean, talk, sit

Looking at these goals, we've got a great year ahead!

Here's to trying new things, stopping bad habits, and making memories!