Ms. Lee - Learn Thru Play

Happy Filipino American History Month! 🇵🇭

We made these jeepneys last year for AAPI to learn about all Asian cultures, but this year I plan to make these with my new 1st graders in October for Filipino American History Month!

If you'd like a copy, please check out my tpt store or leave me a comment. Thank you!

Our first month has been a whirlwind. There has been so much improvement already. Now that we have our routines down and expectations drilled in our heads, I feel like I'm finally teaching without repeating reminders all day long. But what happened today? 😅 Is it Friday yet?

How's your week going?

When do teacher moms ever get a break? When I clock out of my teaching job, I still have so many mom duties.

What I didn't include were before school duties - waking my child up, making breakfast, packing lunch/snack, driving to school... and more after school duties - extracurricular activities, grocery shopping, typing emails, lesson planning, etc... if you're a tired teacher mom, I'm right there with you! Hugs! ❤️

(Special thanks to my 6-year-old for taking this video for me 🥰)

First graders can be very affectionate sometimes 🥰 but it may not always be welcomed, so that means it was time for a personal space lesson! To begin, we read the book Personal Space Invader 📚 and we talked about different ways to show our friends that we love them. To wrap up the lesson, we chose 1-2 ways to write and draw about, and turned it into a class book to keep in our classroom library. Hopefully this will help remind them throughout the year! How do you teach about personal space?

Anyone else playing catch up at lunch? 🙋🏻‍♀️

Reminder: It'll get better!! ❤️

We received a package today so I had H lie down on the packaging paper for me to draw his outline. He really enjoyed adding details to it and was focused for more than 30 minutes! I call this a win! 😃

Is teaching your work out? 😆

Back-to-School Night ✅

It was the first day of school and I forgot to switch out our calendar. 🤦🏻‍♀️ As you can see, we didn't even touch it the last two days of school last year 😅

It's okay! Mistakes are okay! 😃

Meet and Greet ✅

I had a great time meeting my son's teacher today... aka ME!

It's going to be interesting to have him this year and I'm going to embrace every part of it! ❤️

One more day and school starts! Am I ready yet?

When is/was your first day of school?