Well, my classroom is ready for school to start! The walls are ready, at least. Except for behind my desk. I have a couple of personal things (sports pennants) and another poster to put behind there. I think that will be it. I hope it is! My sister Jessica helped me get all my walls done. Thank goodness she has gone through this before and knew what needed to be done and how to do the design stuff. I feel like I know absolutely nothing about the actual setting up of the classroom and how to begin to be a teacher. Sometimes I wonder what I actually learned during those 4 years of college!
My room looks really good, if I may say so myself! I have an information center where I am going to put the calendars, list of assignments, and anything else that my students need to know. Then I have a HUGE Word Wall. I know I will have enough words to fill it, but wow it seems reeeealllly big! On my back wall I have room for all my students' work...yes all 110 students! I put up a nametag and a sheet protector that will have their work in it for every single student. And when I say that I 'put up' every single thing, I mean I stapled all of them. It took 5 staples for every student. That is 550 staples! just for that bulletin board. I woke up this morning and my shoulders and my arms were killing me! I also have a writing bulletin board, since that is a big thing that my students will be concentrating on this year.
After class today, my mom and I went shopping for back-to-school clothes, notebooks for my students, and other errands. It was a lot of fun to go back-to-school shopping with my mom again! All around us were kids getting ready for high school or going off to college. It feels like I am a kid again hitting another hurdle in growing up...my first day of an actual career.
Oh well, this could be a really long posting if I let it, but I am tired and need to get some sleep. Bye!
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