Getting Ready For Camp

This week was our first week of camp. I like doing camp after we end the school year; keeps me in the mindset of teaching, while still taking a break from the "regular" evaluations that seem to be constantly going on. I also end up meeting a lot of my future kindergarteners this way.

There's nothing I hate more than an empty bulletin board. When I took down all my kindergarteners work, to send it home with them, I knew that I didn't want to leave the bulletin board blank all week. Instead I created this bulletin board for my incoming campers.

There are two kindergarten "camp" rooms this year. In fact, after making this bulletin board we had 8 more students enroll! So exciting. I wrote all my campers names on purple tents, and all the campers for the other room on green tents.

I noticed a lot of children stopping their parents in the hallways so they could check for your name. I learned in college that the most narcissistic people are children. It sounds silly to say, but it's so true! They love seeing their name! I'll write their names across the walls if that's what it takes to make them happy :).

So excited for summer this year! I think we have a good bunch.