First week

Well the first week with students is almost done! I cant believe it. I am completely exhausted. It is totally crazy how every day is totally different. Yesterday was a hard day with the kids because they started feeling a little more comfortable with things, so they were way too chatty. Today...it was great. They listened...paid attention...and didnt need to be told to be quiet...too much. :) Im really looking forward to next week because I am going to start enforcing our discipline procedure more seriously. There is already a list of kids I can come up with in my head who are going to be serving detentions because they dont get parent signatures on things, or they cant STOP TALKING! Ugh KIDS!

Final update

Alright well I spent a good four days up at school this past week getting as much ready as I could. We have been given the class lists so I have started preparing seating charts and discipline forms. I am sure once meetings start next week, I will be reminded of things I have currently forgot to do. We will see. Here are two final pictures. I have moved some things around but mainly just added a bit more to the walls.

Hopefully everything on the walls have remained there...as Im sure the heat will test the stickiness of my tape!

MB

Classroom Prep cont

After 3 days, the classroom is really coming together! After the first day, I walked through the other classrooms on my floor to see what sorts of decorations or ideas or could "steal." I noticed that both of the other classrooms had the school theme on their front wall. Another room also had a place on the back wall where the teacher hung signs to write the daily homework assignments. After this, I decided to come home and put my Cricut to use! As shown in my previous post, I made these various signs to hang around the room. In the pictures below, you can see where the signs have been placed!

Back of the room with the homework signs!

Front of the room!

Another shot of the back of the room by my desk.

I am heading to a school supply store this morning to get some last minute items, and then I will spend a few more hours up at school finishing things up! Finally...Ill take a much needed day off tomorrow!

Last installment of pics to come!

MB

Classroom Prep

Today was day #2 up in the classroom. Things are really starting to come together. After the first day I took a few of these pictures.

This first picture shows the new desk arrangement!! The initial setup of the desks made the room look so small and did not encourage group discussion and interaction.

This is just a different view of the classroom. As you will notice, the cork boards are still bare but after setting up the desks, I cleaned through my desk and threw out a bunch of junk from the previous teacher, and I completely emptied a book shelf and moved it back by my desk as I needed that extra storage. I also cleaned out the closet to make space for those books that I didnt want to give away, but I also didnt have room for them on the current book shelves.

These last two pictures are some signs I made this evening. I will take them to get laminated tomorrow and then hang them up! The first picture of signs represents the school theme for the year and the second picture contains the signs I have made for homework...so the students always know where to look when they have a question about homework.

My friend Angie came up to school today to help me put up bulletin boards. We got ALL of the cork covered and got some trimmers up. I really hope to finish all of this decorating by tomorrow...or at least the end of this week. It is NOT my thing!

More pictures to come!

MB

EMINEM

Lets refer back to this previous blog post. Number 5 on the list was EMINEM!!! I was telling Bruce the other day that Eminem was one of those artists I thought I would never see in concert. He hadnt been on tour in a really long time, and I never thought he would come to KC. I was ok with that. I had accepted that. Good thing he surprised me and signed on to be the main act for the First Annual Kanrocksas music festival out at the KS Speedway. Bruce and I bought tickets as soon as we heard he was on the list!

This is a shot of the main stage. This is where Eminem would be performing later on in the evening. Bruce and I got to the speedway around 330p, so we had about 7.5 hours to kill before Eminem.

Here is a shot of us before we head down to the infield.

Here he is!!! He started off wearing that hoodie but lets be honest...Kansas is HOT...so it didnt last long. It was such a blast to be right in the middle of the crowd but I had to work my way to the outside so I could get a decent shot!

What a great concert!!!

MB