Butterflies on the First Day of School (Sterling) follows Rosie through her day, as the butterflies ease and the fun of being in school takes hold. Students who are a bit nervous themselves will appreciate this gentle story. And you can win the book!
Here’s how: Submit a comment to this blog to share what phrase you use to describe being nervous. Butterflies in your stomach? Nervous Nellie? Bundle of nerves? Comments are due by Thursday, August 15, to be included in our random drawing. Good luck! (Update: Congratulations to Catherine, our lucky winner!)
Check out these handy (and free) tools, which can help quell your own butterflies as the school year starts:
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Don’t forget, enter to win this week’s prize before you lose your nerve, get the heebie-jeebies, feel like a cat in a room full of rocking chairs, get the jitters, end up pins and needles….
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“…get a case of the screaming meemies…” LOL!
Very descriptive! 🙂
First day jitters!
Butterflies I’m my stomach
Butterflies in my stomach.
First day jitters
Butterflies in my stomach.
I call it jigglety…
Love that!
Focusing on details.
feeling “tickles” in my tummy!
Tickley tummy!!
We just say nervous or anxious but I like the colorful phrases people have used to describe it. Would love to win the book for my daughter!
Tingle in my tummy
“My stomache feel wobbly”
Butterflies in my stomach
Butterflies or having the jitters.
“Sweating like a pig!”
jitters or case of nerves
My stomach is doing somersaults or loop dee doops.
Nervous feels like butterflies in your stomach.
I’m a bucket of nerves!
Nervous Nellie
Many butterflies come with all our sweet little angels to school. Sounds fun. Can’t wait to share.
My stomach is doing somersaults.
IT depends I use a few sayings I SAY I am a buddle of Neves or I say I HAVE BUTTERFLIES IN MY STOMIC and yet still I may say my tummy is doing flip flops .
Butterflies in my stomach. I wish I could win this book for my classroom.
I used to say I’m anxious with anxiety on the first day of school, and I couldn’t sleep the night before. Now I am a substitute teacher so every night before I am a bundle of nerves. I did a long term music teacher sub job the last 6 weeks of school and I survived!
A bundle of nerves
Jittery or skittery
Butterflies in my stomach
Flutter-flies. ????
Belly doing a flip flop.
Butterflies in your tummy,,, the fluttering of their wings is what you feel.
Nervous Nellie
Nervous as a Billy goat!
Nervous Tummy
Depends, are we talking about what I say as an adult, or what I say to kids…
When I am personally nervous/anxious I say “I’m going to puke” *and I make this silly nervous face!
When I am talking to my kiddos in class, I say butterflies in their tummy because they are feeling shy.
I just say that makes me anxious, but I would ask the kids “Does that make you feel upset in your tummy?”
Butterflies in my stomach!
Flutterbys in the tummy!
Butterflies in my stomach! 🙂
First day nerves!
Jittery Jitterbugs!
Butterflies in my stomach. I wish I win this book.
“If your tummy feels all flippity floppy” ????
First day jitters!
First Day Jitters…..
I have butterflies in my belly!
Flip flops!
Belly is doing flip-flops!
We talk about if their body feels calm or jittery. Then talk about why
My insides are jumpy.
Breaking out in a sweat!
Butterflies in my tummy!
In my house we use I feel very undone
A case of the jitters
Butterflies in your stomach.