Dear Firstie,

      I have been waiting all summer to meet you and I can’t wait to take you on the most wonderful learning adventures this year! Get excited because we are going to be reading oodles of the best books ever written. You are going to become mathematicians, readers, authors, illustrators, scientists, geographers, artists, and more!

      I have finished preparing your Room 7 home here at GMS. I hope you like it! You have a folder, mailbox, hook, desk, chair, and place on our rug waiting for you for the first day of school!

      I am looking forward to hearing about your summer!

You’re a first grader…at last!