Happy New Year!

Greetings 2014!

2013 was a challenging, rewarding and exciting year for myself and my wife.  I am enthralled to begin 2014 with new plans personally and professionally.  Very soon Sarah and I move to Pukekohe!  We move into a neat little bungalow which I'm sure you may see some pictures on this blog.  In late March 2014 we expect Emerson to be born and I cannot tell everyone how stoked I am about becoming a father to our son.  Already you can tell it will be quite a year.  Truly blessed!


As well as that I begin setting up my classroom in a couple of weeks!  After unpacking and settling in our new place I can gather my teaching/classroom resources, books and activities I have been collecting for a few years and bring them into my new classroom (and figure out when and how I can use them).
I also am ambitious to set up an exciting, fun and engaging classroom but I am unsure as to what theme I may choose to implement.  This may come down to the resources available at the school.

But here is some inspiration for classroom themes for those who may be interested.

Sports Theme


Beach Theme

My Wife's new blog

My wife is a terrific writer and I love to see her work.  I definitely love that she is such a creative an intelligent woman whom I have so much respect for.
I love this lady a whole heap - I tell her this each day.

At the moment she is doing the most wonderful and horrendous task of carrying our son: Emerson Jacob West.  That's him below

I'm so very excited about being a dad for the first time and being a parent with my gorgeous wife Sarah.


This post is about her.  She has written a terrific blog call "Me as a Mother"

You can see it here:

http://measmother.blogspot.co.nz/








If you want to know more about us or our baby, myself or her you can see her amazing website she made for us here:

http://thewests.weebly.com/