This past week of inservices, trainings, meetings, and setting up my classroom was enough to keep me at school from about sun-up to sun-down, but heading into my first day, I feel pretty prepared! I have a wonderful team, and the other teachers that I share the downstairs hallway with are fabulous--the team of teachers and support staff that I will be working with this coming year have made me feel so at home and prepared. I've got a good feeling that the "at home" feeling isn't going anywhere, and my fingers are crossed that the "prepared" part will stick around for a while, too.
Last Thursday was our Open House, and I got to meet a dozen of my kiddos and their parents (and some siblings, too!). It was SUCH a great night, and after a week of agonizing whether my classroom would ever be put together in time for the visits, I left school breathing easy that everything came together.
As the first day of school approaches this coming Tuesday, I thought I'd give y'all a tour of my classroom. There are still finishing touches that need to be added--many of which are sitting on my living room floor ready to be brought to school and hung up/placed around the room before the kiddos arrive--but c'est la vie!
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| Welcome to Ms. W's class! |
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| Here's standing right inside the doorway looking toward the front of the room--those of you that have ever visited our apartment downtown at Urban will recognize my reading chair :) (Also, a tip I received: you'll notice that there's a pattern on the wall behind the chair and also above the white board. I covered all my bulletin boards with fabric (right now it's back-to-school themed), which was super-easy to hang and doesn't fade, so I can use it year after year! I personally think that patterned fabric is cuter than plain butcher paper from the copy room, but to each his own...) |
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| And if you step into the classroom a little bit more and turn to the left, you can see most of the classroom--I can't tell y'all how many times I reorganized the furniture, but after about half a dozen configurations, I think I finally found a lay out I can live with! |
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| My library...still aesthetically unpleasing to me, but I'm working on it! (This beautification project, I decided, was not as important as, say, figuring out my first week's lesson plans. I'll let you know how it shapes up as I work on it!) My desk begins at the left edge of this photo, but is still a war-zone, so it was [strategically] not photographed :) |
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| This photo is taken from about the middle of the room looking at the back left corner (opposite back corner of the computers/library). You'll see a little word wall action some sweet student mail boxes (on the right side of the picture) that I inherited from the teacher who lived in this room before me, and, in the back corner, a bathroom! Though I've received plenty of cautionary tips about children using the bathroom, I am selfishly realllly excited about this part of my classroom because of my love for coffee and water--now I have no reason to have to limit my intake of either! |
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| Here's a view from the library-area with a view of the doorway side of the classroom. I have TONS of cabinet and shelf space in my classroom--what.a.dream. There's lots of blank space right now, but those blank cabinet doors are just begging to be a display case for student work! I just need to collect some from the kiddos on Tuesday :) |
I've spent the last 18 August/Septembers of my life beginning the school year as a student--here's to starting my first as a teacher!
Love from Room 106,
Allie
I want to be your student! Love what you've done with your space. Have a fabulous first day with your kiddos on Tuesday!
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