EXHAUSTED!!

Today has been a crazy, crazy, crazy day!!! Started off the day with Jazzercise and then went up to my classroom to do some work. Today has completely worn me out. I don't know if it's because I was working in the heat for so long, but I am exhausted! There is a lot of work to be done. It is a HOT mess! Here are some of the pictures as proof!


This is the view of the disaster from the door! Look at all that that has to be put up and unpacked before August 3rd.


This is a view of just a few of the plastic tubs (there are 21 total) that I moved from one classroom to the other. These also have to be unpacked before August 3rd!! Ahhhh!!! Can you spot Tom the Turkey? Haha.


Here is one of the bulletin boards in the room. This is one with the blue fadeless paper and the yellow lady bug printed border. It's hard to tell from the picture but the border has tiny blue flowers. The blue ties in with the other border I'm using in the room as well. This board will more than likely have classroom information like conduct, fluency scores, classroom helpers and etc.

Here is the other large board in the room. This board has the fadeless yellow paper and blue border with yellow bumble bees. This is where the blue from the lady bug print border and the other blue paper tie in. This board is going to be a vocabulary, math, science and social studies word wall. This is a good shot to show you the two borders and papers together. The small section is the area around the light switch. It has to be covered because it's cork board and it looks rough if you don't!

So it doesn't look like I did much today, but trust me the work I put in takes a looooooong time. I like to make sure the paper doesn't have any wrinkles and stuff like that. I can be a little too picky sometimes. One really great relief though is that one of my wonderful teacher friends Linda has agreed to decorate my door and outside bulletin board. Since my room has to be ready before inservice, having her help me out with that is AMAZING. She told me today she was thinking of covering my door with sky blue paper and putting tall grass with lady bugs coming up out of it. I think it'll look amazing! Next time I'm at school I'll have to take pictures of the boards she does. Her first undergraduate degree was in art design. You can definitely tell she loves to do what she does.

Tonight I'm making Chris a birthday dinner. Since we are going to be out of town on his actual birthday, I agreed to make him a dinner tonight. We are having yummy lasgne and my famous garlic bread. For dessert I made a cake. Strawberry cake with vanilla frosting. I also decorated it and um, it looks like a Kindergartener did it. Oh well!! It's the thought that counts! Here's a picture of the cake.


Well, wish me luck with the dinner. We all know cooking is not my best quality!! :) He better like it either way. I'm liking this blogging thing. I think I'll make a point to keep it up!

Happy Blogging!