A new year is about to begin. This will be my sixth year teaching. This summer I completed my masters degree program at UF! Now that it's over, I know that I am a much better equiped teacher.
I was able to get into my room on Thursday. I'm glad I wont be housing the computer lab this year despite the fact that I used it constantly during my classes. 22 laptops and all their wires took up a lot of space! The lab will be just down the hall and I will just have to sign up for it like everyone else. Housing last year caused a lot of mobile teaching situations for my classes. I taught in hallways, the library, the stage in the cafeteria, the picnic tables, a grassy area behind one of our buildings. It was a learning expierience.
At any rate here are my before day one pics. As you can see there are just piles of boxes everywhere. I'm not sure if I will be allowed to keep the large rectangular tables since they were purchased for the computer lab. They are much sturdier than the usual rectangular tables we have. I'm hoping for the regular ones or round tables. I can't stand student desks.
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| The view from my bathroom door. |
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| The view from my back door. |
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| The view from my front door. |
These are the pictures after about five hours of work. The lovely children are my neice, Kyleigh, and my nephew, Jacob. They were great helpers. I'll admit, it doen't look like much righ now. But I got most of my rubbermaid bins unpacked. My oldest neice, Alexis, will do my library next week while I am at meetings. I am not going to do any major bulletin boards this year. I am going to put up inspirational quotes from famous gifted learners around the room. I want to use the students projects as my displays so that our room turns into a sort of museum for our theme, Colonial America.
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| View from the bathroom door looking over my smartboard and teacher area. |
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| View from my back door looking toards the front door. |
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| View from my front door looking at the back door. |
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| View from my teacher area. |
