Joining the blog trend

My first post!  I know what you're thinking.  What teacher starts her classroom blog just after school ends?  This girl right here. I'm envious of all of the other classroom/teacher blogs I see and I want to do it to!  But I'm super anal so it took me like 3 days to come up with a name and choose a background.  I'm not fluent in HTML, so I have to use backgrounds I can download.  The link to the site this one came from is down at the bottom on the left.  My Style backgrounds.

So, who am I?  My name is Cherie.  I teach first grade in Arizona.  I just completed my 5th year in first, 6th year in Arizona.  I taught K my first year.  I am entering my 7th year and my first FULL year in 2 years.  The last two years in a row I have found myself on maternity leave.  Both during the fall.  I have two boys and they're Irish Twins.  13 months apart.  Wowza I'm busy!

My goal on here is to share awesomeness from our classroom, as well as tips/tricks/ideas from my little head.  And probably some from other peoples' heads... but I'll give credit where credit is due! :)  I'll start by posting some old stuff from last year, or previous years.  All of it is at school, so I'll take pics and post tomorrow.