Today I feel I have a lot to share for Tara’s linky! Last Monday I showed you the labels I made for my IKEA boxes. I wanted to make them a big cuter so I added some ribbon I found on sale at Michael’s. I’m super proud of my portable clip chart that I made. […]
Tick Tick Tick
Time is not my friend right now. School starts Wednesday but Meet the Teacher Night is Tuesday. Every time I go into my classroom, my to do list gets longer. It’s not that nothing is getting done. It’s just that everything I do reminds me of more things I need to do. I think the […]
Before and During
I wish I were in a before and after kind of place. I’m going to be exhausted after all this ‘vacation time’. Today, as I mentioned in my last post, I was determined that my class wouldn’t look like a bomb went off. It was a productive day and the shrapnel has been cleaned up. […]
Determined
I’m heading back to my classroom for day 7 of unpacking. How can it take me this long? I’m determined to get my bulletin board borders up, things put away, and everything labeled. While it is a lot of work switching classrooms, I’m making sure it’s worth my time. I’m getting rid of things I […]
Putting up Bulletin Boards is Like Having an Argument
I realized today that putting up bulletin board paper and borders is like having an argument: You don’t like doing it, but sometimes it is unavoidable. Switching classrooms is stressful because I don’t know what I want to put on my bulletin boards, or where they are going to go. I used to leave mine […]