The First Day of School

Well, the first day of school is tomorrow and summer is sadly over.  I am both excited and nervous to begin our school year.  I am very lucky to have many of my students from last year in my classroom again for Grade 2 and also to have 5 new students beginning Grade 1.  I was very busy this summer and it seemed to pass by very quickly.  Here are some photos from my summer!  Can't wait to see you all tomorrow!!

-Miss Matsumoto  

Folk Festival 2013

GIANT Scrabble at Folk Festival!

Painting chairs for school my favourite colour :) 

Mary Poppins at Rainbow Stage

Setting up our classroom for this year in August

Taking classes at the University of Manitoba (I am a student too!)

The last days of summer...

Oh my goodness! Summer is nearly over and school begins next week. Last week I sent all of my Grade 1 students a postcard in the mail. Who doesn't like getting mail? Hopefully some will have the chance to visit our class blog before school starts to answer my question!! P.S. Thanks to Ms. Nairn for the question suggestion!

Summer Bloggin'

My good friend and former colleague Miss Nairn, and I were working on our classroom blogs today.  We used to be neighbours at Harold Hatcher School and I know I will miss her this upcoming school year!  Good thing we have lots of exciting projects planned together...stay tuned for more about those later!!

You should definitely visit Miss Nairn's classroom blog, Tales from Grade 2 here!

Folk Fest

I am very excited to enter the world of classroom blogging with my new grade 1 class at Bernie Wolfe School!

Here is a little bit of what I have been up to so far this summer:

Here are some photographs from the Winnipeg Folk Festival at Bird's Hill Provincial Park at the beginning of July.  Great music, wonderful times spent with old and new friends, and gigantic board games made for an awesome festival...