A little work and some exciting news!

I've been working all day in my classroom. I'm exhausted! But I can now say that all of my 21 plastic tubs are unpacked and just about everything is put away! It's actually starting to look like a classroom now. I took some picture of what it looks of as of today. Oh and in case you are wondering, I STILL have NO AIR. UHG!

Well here is the view from the door. As you can see I've got some furniture arranged. I also rolled my rug out. Oh and Mandy, since I know you're reading this see those crates on the rug? Those are full of classroom library books that you'll be helping me organize tomorrow. :) That's also the shelf Chris fixed and the baskets that I'm so excited about. Also if you look at the student tables those are caddies I bought from Wal-Mart. They have a lot of space in them and individual compartments so that I can do community supplies. I'm a big fan of the community supply thing. In third grade I had the students use pencil boxes and they lost their things ALLLLLLL the time. I like having tables again too!

Here is a closer view of my library area. I really love it. I'll love it even more when my books are in the baskets. That'll be a task for tomorrow. That twirling rack beside the bookcase has books on cd in them. You can also kinds tell that my A/C unit is still pulled apart, I just propped the casing up so it would look good for the picture. Please pray for my air conditioning!


Here is the front of the room. You'll see my teaching table at the front. My writing station where that stand up pocket chart is. I also got my conduct chart hung today. Its to the far left of the picture. I am really happy with how everything is turning out!

Here's a view of the room from the back. That table in the middle won't be there but right now I'm using it for getting things ready. It's my work table. You can see my teaching easel and the HUGE pile of EMPTY plastic tubs stacked up in the corner. The good thing is that those tubs are now EMPTY!!!

Here is what Sheila and I like to call the teacher "cave" this is the corner of the room devoted to just my materials. It has my metal cabinet, filing cabinet, sliding cabinet and shelf. It's not 100% organized but it is definitely getting there. Oh, and see that ugly brown trashcan? Every class has to have those now. It's actually an emergency kit. It has food, water, and other random things in case of an emergency. Not exactly pleasing to the eye huh? This picture is blurry too. Sorry!

So, I am really glad that things are coming together nicely in my classroom. I'm ready to finish it all up. It's weird, but I'm kinda ready to get back to work. I miss the routein. But don't you worry, give me two weeks and I'll be wishing for summer again. When's the first school holiday again? Labor Day!!

I bet you're wondering what the exciting news is! Well I felt your prayers about my Jazzercise movement screening and the worked! I passed!!!!!! So now I have a lot of work to do in order to go to "Workshop" in September. The workshop is September 11-13. Before then I have a lot of things to do like learn 10 routeins (backwards because that is how I will teach it!), get CPR certified and get other paper work and things done. Now workshop is just the next step I have to get past. There is still a chance of not making it when I get there. So, keep the prayers coming, I will definitely need them! I really am excited though. I feel like this is an area of my life that God is taking hold of. Jazzercise is what completely changed my life and made me a healthier person. I have a need to want to help other people do the same.

I'll keep you all updated on all of this stuff! Hope you're weekend was great and to those teachers out there working in their rooms, GOOD LUCK!!

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