Work Work Work

Sorry it has been so long since my last post. My posts probably won't be coming as frequently now that I am back to work again but I will try my best to post at least once a week with updates. This past week was teacher work week and it was jammed packed with meetings, planning sessions, getting my room ready, and meeting some of my students at the back to school picnic. We didn't have as much time in our rooms to get ready so I even had to go up yesterday, Saturday, for about 4 hours to do last minute preparations. Needless to say it has been an exhausting week and I didn't even have a classroom full of 6 year olds! I think I am finally ready for them though. This year should be a really good year. (I am trying to be optimistic.) We have a new teammate, that makes 3 of us for the first time since I have taught 1st grade , and therefore I only have 15 kids in my class! I set up 18 desks though because I am expecting a few more to come on the first day of school since many schools have "overflow" students that are sent to schools where there is room. Anything lower than 23, what I had last year, will be awesome! Here are some pictures of my classroom. The reason it took longer to get my room ready this year is because EVERYTHING was in boxes because we were having some work done in our rooms this summer and they didn't want anything out. Somehow it all got done.