First Day of 6th Grade

To MUCH surprise...my first day of teaching went extraordinarily well!! I have been having dreams that it would be mass chaos....but I can honestly say I loved every minute of it and I have a FANTASTIC and very well behaved group of kids (thanks parents!)
I thought I'd post an activity I did with my Social Studies classes the first day. I had 3 different poster boards hung on the chalkboard. I had written on them "My goal for Social Studies is...", "Our classroom should be _______ everyday", and "What will Ms. Castor need to do to help you this year?" I gave each of my 3 social studies classes different colored sticky notes to correspond with their class and had them write the answers on them. Then they hung it up accordingly. I did this for pure self enrichment on how to better help my students succeed. I didn't share their answers with each other and got some pretty good ones!! This of course was a Pinterest idea and ended up very colorful and helpful :)

After 2 days of being at school....I think I finally know all of my homebase students names. I wouldn't trade any of them for the world...I sure hope the rest of the week is as fantastic as these first few days!