I arrived home from school today to find a package outside of my front door. I was feeling stressed and overwhelmed from a long day but that quickly changed when I realised that it must be my Teacher Exchange gifts! I am a new teacher with my very first class and so I thought the exchange would be great, to help me to set up my first classroom.

I opened up the box to find a lovely card from my giftee wishing me good luck with my first year teaching and 3 boxes of Crayola felt tips!

Creating an early interest in reading and books is important to me. We have a classroom book corner but the books that were left in the classroom are very old, worn and falling apart. Over the summer I put some cushions and a rug in the book corner to make it a nice comfy area for reading. I then brought a few new picture books but they can be very expensive! However my giftee has helped me to continue to build our classroom library! I opened up blue tissue paper to find 20 lovely new picture books! Thank you giftee! It is so generous of you I know how pricey picture books can be!

Under the books I found a big class box of colouring pencils, 96 in total which will be enough for the whole year! The box has even been put to use as my cat jumped straight into it as soon as it had been emptied.

So I just want to say a massive thank you Becca! You have been so generous! The children will love using the felt-tips and colouring pencils, they love to draw lots of pictures. The picture books are amazing and will help to build up our book corner, making it inviting to the children and of course the children will enjoy reading them over and over again. I would love you to PM me with your username so that I can say a personal thank you too!