As I've said before, I have approximately an hour commute, so I've been spending much of my time travelling, setting up my classroom, and clinging to my last few hours of summer bliss.
My boys and I spent a lazy day playing outside yesterday. My five-year-old, Pablo, is starting kindergarten at K12 Virtual School on Tuesday and I'm so excited! :) This is a new venture for both of us, so I'll keep everyone posted.
My youngest son, Eddie, has one more year at home before he starts Preschool. I get mixed feelings at the end of every summer. I know how quickly the school year will fly by. Summer will be here again before I know it, they will have another birthday, and one more year will slip away--Oh, time...do slow down.
Anyway, I wanted to share a few projects that Judith and I have completed in the classroom. Today is the first day of school, and who knows how longs this organization will last! ;)
I'm jumping up and down excited about having such an awesome selection in our classroom library. My co-teacher, Judith, has an obscene amount of books, spanning all genres and interests! I wanted to make a contribution (since she's clearly already spent lots of time and money building her library!) so I set out to organize and level each book.
::gasps for breath::
By the way, this project was bigger, more time consuming than I thought. BUT the I'm so proud of the end result. Since we both are looping up with our students from last year, I wanted to change things up for them and make it interesting. :)
We have squeaky, clean, freshly-waxed floors! And 36 students! And that means lots of annoying screeching sounds when students scoot their chairs in and out when they sit/stand. Luckily, I found this idea on Pinterest! :) It may require a few repairs through the year, but it's a less expensive alternative to tennis balls, and we can color coordinate student chairs and desks!!
It's a fairly easy project and we've gotten a lot of compliments already! I bought the felt at Wal-mart for 23 cents per sheet--cut them in thirds and fold them over to create a 2-ply sheet. Then we just rubber-banded them to the bottom of the desks! The chairs aren't done yet, but we're going to let the students do that on the first day. :)
I wanted something other than letter cut-outs for our content boards, so I made banners!
I have lots more to share, but I have to get read for the first day of school! I wish all my teacher friends well!!! :)
-Martha Sosa
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