Mrs. Stevenett's Classroom Blog

Here is our classroom blog - thanks Kaili Valantine for all of your help and craftiness :)
http://mrsstevenettsclassroom.blogspot.com/

Life in First Grade

Since it is my first year teaching, I have been told by several to take pictures for memory purposes. So...here's our class. I went with a basketball theme...surprised? I also decided on red, black and white as the color scheme. I still have a bit to do but we're getting there:)

our door (the outside)

our door (the inside)

DIBELS Bulletin Board

Clipboards, games & manipulatives, Sharp/Not Sharp pencils

Bathroom Passes

My desk/shelves

Behavior Management system

Birthday Wall

Morning Meeting Board

Courtside Calendar

Voice Level reminder

Reading Corner

Our Scoreboard (another behavior management/incentive)

Reading Bulletin Board

Math Bulletin Board

Clock helpers :)

everyone's advice..."stay organized"....

...I'm trying...

1st Graders can't say Stevenett very easily, so Mrs. S. is my name :)

Our hallway Bulletin Board

I couldn't have had this classroom ready without help. My cute sister-in-law Scarlet made the "Mrs. S." and "Let's Read" signs. My in-laws helped with incentives and our class treasure box-which the kids LOVE. My grandma Cher gave me all of the fabric for my bulletins. My mom helped me create most of my bulletins and charts. Jackson put in just as much work as me... and TA DA!! Thank you to everybody who helped me. First grade is definitely a challenge but I LOVE my kids and there is never a dull moment in our class. 172 more school days to go...but who's counting? :)

Addition to the family - Now we're 3!

We have waited over two years to get a cute little pup together. Finally we have landlords that let us, thanks parents:)

We found him on KSL, in the midst of getting my classroom put together, moving, and RaceCar's wedding, we dropped everything and ran up north to get him. We had a blast with him and fell completely in love from the second we picked him out. Not to mention he lost his lunch on me in the car, not even 5 minutes after we picked him up :( haha the joys! 

He is 10 1/2 weeks old and weighs 2.8 lbs right now. We named him MJ because we had no time to come up with something better than our favorite basketball player. Somehow we end up calling him Jordan when he's in trouble. MJ is half poodle and half chihuahua...aka a poochie:)

He is so fun to have around, yes a lot of work, but he's so worth it. Jackson adores him and it's a constant fight over who gets to cuddle him when he's sleepy and calm haha! 

Tips for potty training anyone?? Haha

His first bath

Zonked haha!!!

The chewing phase...

This is how he rides in the car lately!

Settling Down...For Now :)

Jacks and I had a fun-filled summer, filled with vacations and playing! But behind our smiles and pictures taken around the world was two kids trying to figure things out. I hope and pray the decision that we had to make this summer will be the hardest one we'll ever have to face...because it was sure a trial for us. 

When Jacks finished his ball career at SUU in March he knew he wasn't ready to give it up. We immediately started talking to agents, pursuing playing basketball professionally, overseas. I thought for sure that when the SUU team started post-workouts and training/conditioning in the Spring he'd admit that he was glad and relieved to be done...I was terribly wrong! He missed the game even more. As we decided on an agent (Steve James) in June, offers started rolling in, however we hadn't received that offer that we called "the deal maker". We practiced patience like it was our life support. We had quite a few long, hard, and sleepless nights. Finally in August we were faced with a final decision, as we both had job offers here in Sevier County. Luckily we had picked a great agent who understood what we were facing. Even though there were a couple of those "deal makers"  promised to us, we felt that we couldn't take that risk-for our opportunities here were opportunities that we have wanted since day one. The next fear was facing the fact that teams still might offer after we had already committed to our jobs here. We didn't want to know what we were missing out on overseas. Luckily, our agent respected that and wished us well. I hope that someday we will understand why things worked out the way they did, but for now we are happy with the promise we've made to each other to get overseas and visit a few of those places in Europe that we want to see. I'm holding him to it! :)

We are so blessed to have very supportive families that comforted us throughout this decision. Ultimately it had to be made by us and the promptings we felt, but we wouldn't have survived without our friends and family helping us along the way. 

I took a job teaching first grade at Monroe Elementary, where I've always wanted to be. We've made it through the first week of school and going strong:) Jackson is working in the accounting department at Barney Trucking in Salina. He did an internship there a couple summers ago and loved it. He will finish his Masters degree, online,  in December and working full time - yes he will be super busy, good thing he doesn't stress;)

I'm so lucky to have a selfless husband who isn't scared to work his butt off. I know he gave up his dream to prepare for our future and future family. He's my hero! I love you, Jacks! 

Race's and Car's Wedding

The Jorgensen/Parsons wedding was so much fun and turned out perfect. Pure joy and happiness were in their eyes on August 10th, 2013. I will never forget the experience we shared with them in the temple. Young Love. We couldn't be more proud of them. The wedding day was beautiful and the reception the night before was absolutely perfect, despite the two hour long line haha!! We can't wait to see all their success at SUU with ball and golf!! - More pics to come:) -