Tomorrow I start back to work in 4 weeks. *sigh* Where did my first summer as a teacher go? Shoot! Where did my first year as a teacher go?
As I stated before I not only moved grade levels but I moved rooms too. I basically threw stuff in boxes and moved them to my new room, threw the boxes in the very tiny closet in my room and left it all there for the month of June.
Last week I started waking up thinking of all I have to do in just over a month until I start back to work. I couldn't just allow myself to sit around the house. I'm usually not that type of person anyway. I get "mad" at my father when he can't just sit and relax, but yet I take after him in so many ways - one of them being that I can't just sit for too long of a time.
So this week I have spent some time in my room. Monday I spent only 2 hours. Today I spent double that time at least!
I unpacked box after box. My desk area is all organized as are my closets. If I never see a staple in a bulletin board again it will be too soon! I must have pulled out 1000 staples from the 3 large and 1 small bulletin boards in my room. OK, so maybe not that many but it sure did seem like it.
In a few weeks when I can get my key to the school and room and I can work after hours (when I have more man power in the way of my parents) all I will have to do is put up my bulletin boards, move a few book cases (that I just didn't have the strength to move myself and to ask the custodians to do more work than they already are doing this summer is not my style as I hate bothering people with things I have want to do), and organize my library books.
Hopefully my brain will relax these next 4 weeks. Although I have some books to read such as the Daily 5 and Cafe books and Lucy Calkins Writing Workshop books between now and then. *sigh*
Attached are pictures of my room thus far.
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| Counter top and cabinets with one of the large bulletin boards |
| Counter top and cabinets continued from above picture |
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| Closet in the classroom at the end of the counter space from above picture |
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| Small bulletin board at the front of the room to the right of the closet from above |
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| This is facing my desk area and the other 2 large bulletin boards |
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| 2 large bulletin boards continued from picture above |
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| Facing my desk area - however my desk is facing differently than this and that short bookcase is not there |
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| Entrance to room with kidney table for small group |
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| Back Pack racks |
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| Computer station for students |
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| What my desk area looks like minus all my personal stuff in the area. On top of that short bookcase will be my students' mail box |
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| The closet I share with my "partner in crime". I can barely fit through there width-wise! |
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| The bathroom entrance, which also connects to my co-worker's room |
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| The closet and bathroom side by side |
More pics to come, of course!
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