Are they finished yet?

MOVING … don’t you just cringe thinking about it.  Now think about moving CLASSROOMS…nightmares right?  Add in the fact that the classrooms are still being built and well… are you hyperventilating yet?

We arrived Monday to contractors, Tuesday to contractors, and you guessed it Wednesday to contractors. By Thursday I was walking in circles I had helped our fabulous new Pre-k3 teacher arrange her classroom. Which use to be my classroom when I taught Pre-k, so I have a very fond place in my heart for this room. It is also the room my Bug will be in this year. So by Thursday, I had helped carry everyone else’s furniture and I had a pile of great teachers ready to help us with our move. On Thursday, the contractor finally said, “the classroom is yours.” Cue jumping up and down, happy dances, the full nine yards.

Of course on Thursday our wonderful maintenance staff were all busy, so then it was Friday morning. After our in-service with a visiting Sister, I got the pleasure of having all my stuff and more dropped off in my room…cue the hyperventilating. I’m bummed I didn’t get a picture, but I was so anxious to get things going I jumped right in.  Moving furniture is exhausting though.  Next week, it will be all about decorating, labels, and organizing and I can’t wait.

And I started another project!

Summer Projects Part One

I’m so excited to be writing my first official blog post. I have been thinking about joining my favorite teachers in the blogging world, but I was scared! But this summer I decided I would take the leap. So here goes:

Summers are for vacations right? Well not for us this year instead we did a ton of projects, mainly ones around the house. My extremely WONDERFUL hubby fixed our rotting door, built the bug a big girl bed, and tiled the kitchen backsplash!  Yay!

I was also lucky enough to squeeze in a few projects for myself or rather my classroom, the biggest one being designing this blog. I looked at purchasing one, but decided to give it a try myself and despite being frustrated many a time when coding didn’t work the way I had hoped I’m all done. I have Megan at I Teach What’s Your Superpower to thank. Her tutorials were a life save and extremely helpful.

Additionally, I turned all my file cabinets and those of the previous teacher into binders. I had one she had four. Many I had gone through last year, but I had not done a whole lot with the stuff in them. I tossed tons of stuff, especially doubles or outdated worksheets. Then I organized by topic and theme. I’m so excited how they came out and the best part was the awesome EDITABLE binder covers I found by Mandy Neal. Love the chalkboard mixed with the bright colors! BONUS it include spines in two different sizes.

Next, I wanted to create some things for my NEW classroom, yes it is being built. My hubby cut these adorable pencils, which I painted and wrote my assistant and my names on. 

We have a Restore store where I scored this awesome table ($10) and those plastic folder for take home folders ($0.15) Score!!

I covered the table with an older Curious George book. Look how cute it turned out! the bug helped and loved the gluey modpodge.

Still to go are create seats, curtains, and flower boxes but we will see…