My classroom in progress.

So I went into my room today since my husband was at a training and my son was at basketball camp. I had only been there for about ½ hr when I got very overwhelmed. The amount of resources and stuff that the former resource room teaching had was crazy. The space that I have is significantly smaller than the space she had plus I have to share the resources with another teacher so to say trying to go through all that stuff was stressful was an understatement! Don’t get me wrong it is good to have lots of resources when you are working with struggling learners as you never know what tools you will need, but one of the workbooks I opened up was from 1978 (which is a good year, it’s the year I was born).

  So I made a plan to try to find the programs and resources that I had heard of or used in the past first. I organized those resources and then browsed the other stuff to see if there were other things I thought I might use. Anything I knew I wouldn’t use I left for the other teacher to go through when she comes in. I didn’t want to assume that she wouldn’t want to use it.

  Then I began the fun process of unpacking all the boxes from my kindergarten classroom. I actually made very good progress if you look at the pics from my last post and then look at these pics.

This is where the large pile of boxes use to be. Two of the boxes you see in the picture are actually empty I just hadn't taken care of the boxes yet. 

Sorry for the blurry pic. Oh my!

Yes it's starting to feel like my space :)

I also started to make the classroom look like my own, by putting up my family pictures (I really need to get some updated pics).

Love my family....and The Wizard of Oz!

Even my Ruby Red Shoes made it to my new classroom! I wonder what my new school will think when I wear these. :)

  Next I need to work on buying some fabric and superhero stuff. Also printing and laminating the superhero stuff I have bought from TPT.  Since my room is getting in order I am starting to feel better about this transition. I think I will have a lot to learn, but I am excited. I was happy to talk to a few teachers today and one in particular made me feel very welcome and seemed to understand that even though I made the choice to make a change that it is still difficult. I think her and I are going to get along just fine.

  Oh one difference I noticed about my new school…..they can leave toys on the playground and apparently they don’t get stolen. Seems like that is a good sign.

Hope you are enjoying your summer!

~Erica