Your classroom looks great. You won't regret staying home with your daughters. I was a teacher for seven years. Then I had twin daughters, and I stayed home for six years. I returned to the classroom. I worked until I reached 28 years in total as a teacher. I spent 21 years in second grade, and I loved it. Have a great year.

I love your normalizing getting a classroom ready! Your room looks great! Have a great year. I love using your math resources on TPT. Thank you for showing us your classroom.

Affirmation Station header would look nice on top of the mirror.

I love your room! How did things work out having your daughter in your class? I am teaching 2nd as well this next year. Wreck em!

I'm so excited to follow your journey back into teaching! Your word work organizer is cool! The vocab words you used on your alphabet cards are great! I love the pencil (What do writers write?) on your ELA wall. Is it in your TPT store?

This is great, Marcy! What do you put into the students' individual math tubs?

Can you link the monthly word wall? Thank you!

Good morning! Where is the non traditional alphabet line in the subscriptions box?

Hello Marcy! The link for your library labels is not working on your blog.

I am really surprised a teacher is allowed to have their own child in their class. Not about the teacher's effectiveness but as a liability issue for the school board (it would be impossible to show that favoritism or bias wasn't happening in class if another parent, because it is an inherent conflict of interest that impacts classmates). This isn't ab issue as the parent, of course, but it is for an employee of the institution (especially if it is a public school, where teachers are public sector employees). Not knocking the teacher. Just a very risky thing to allow, policy-wise, on the school/board's part. We are not allowed to teach our own kids in our board for this reason.