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Classroom Set Up Day 3

So most of what I did today was organizing. My room still looks like a giant mess, but I swear I organized and sorted stuff. I brought in most of the stuff that I’ve bought for my classroom. I sorted that out into where I want it to go. I started putting together dry erase bags. My intention this year is to have a board a marker and an eraser in each of the zipper pouches and each kid gets a pouch. That way when we’re doing work with our whiteboards, all I have to say is go get your dry erase pouch and they’ll have everything they need and we don’t have to spend 10 minutes handing out supplies.

I also put all of the headphones in baggies and put numbers on the baggies. I probably need to take them out of the bags and put numbers on the headphones themselves as well so we can match things up with the bags. I am determined that we are not going to go through more than one set of headphones this year. (Last year my class went through six! Six sets of headphones! I don’t want to say they were monsters because they weren’t, but how do you destroy six sets of headphones???!)

I put together a cute set of boxes for sharp and dull pencils and eraser caps. They’re cute and they were pretty easy to put together, but I think I might need to bring in my hot glue gun and glue the pieces together. The dull cup fell apart as I was putting pencils on it. (That’s what happens when you buy cheap things on Amazon, friends…)

I sorted and emptied out three sets of rolling drawers. I have about five and I don’t know that I’m gonna need them this year because I have storage built-in. One of them had a broken drawer and one of them is missing a wheel. I could maybe steal a wheel from the one that’s broken and put it on the other one. Otherwise I’m getting rid of two things…

I really feel like I didn’t do very much at all today, but I did. I need to start getting some of the trash I’ve created out of there. I also need to start moving the furniture. Tomorrow I have more boxes to go through and more drawers. I need to start putting things in cupboards. The only hiccup is gonna be that I said I would help with registration in the morning, so I probably won’t get anything until the afternoon…

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Things I Did in My Classroom Today

I found all my library book bins.

I sorted all but one box of books.

I left the last book box because it is trapped under a bunch of other stuff and I didn’t feel like digging it out.

I sorted books by fiction in the green tubs, nonfiction in the blue tubs, and curriculum related books in the red tubs.

I also sorted books by whether they are independent reading books or read aloud books.

I didn’t take a picture, but I figured out that my student supply bins will fit in one of the cupboards that I have. They’ll fit pretty exactly, as long as I don’t have more than 20 kids. Currently my roster is at 17. (I might need to test to see if the top shelf is too high for first graders… not sure yet…)

I think I know where I’m going to put the library as well.

I left it at this point because my phone was about to die and I didn’t want to dig through all the boxes and drawers to figure out where I put my school phone charger. Also, I’m not getting paid to go into work on my classroom until around August 4th, so I am not requiring myself to stay a full school day.

I feel pretty good about how far I got today. 😊

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I need honest answers on this one.

First crayon is done and…I don’t know if I love it…Does it look stupid? Would it be better with eyes? Is the top weird?

Please be honest!

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The nail polish is not gonna last long…

I don’t know about anybody else, but I can physically feel the polish on my nails—like it feels different from no polish on my nails and I don’t like the feeling. I am also having a lot of trouble not picking at it. It’s not perfect, because my mom did it and she’s not perfect and that’s OK. But I’m trying really hard not to pick at it.

I think I’m gonna leave it on for the rest of today and then tomorrow I will go ahead and take it off with the nail polish remover I got.

It was something I wanted to try, and I’m glad I tried it, but have you ever been physically aware of your fingers to the point where you can’t stop being aware of them? Because that is where I’m at, and I don’t like it!

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The other thing I wanted to do this birthday weekend was learn to do my nails. You’d think I’d know by now, at newly 36, but I was a notorious nail biter as a kid. Also I thought it would be a nice thing to ask my mom to do. A bonding thing.

She very nicely showed me what to do this morning. We’ll see how long this lasts. I’m not sure how to feel about it now. I really appreciate my mom for helping me, and she was so happy to do it.

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It’s my birthday! I got my hair cut this weekend.

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New Markers!

I got new markers! These are the Crayola clicks. They are retractable markers. I like them enough that I wanted to make a video to show them off. I’m also going to put some of the pictures I took of them in this post. I plan on using them in my classroom for anchor charts. Let me know what you would use these for.

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Next year, I’m going to be sick on field day. And you know I think it’s going to be a recurring illness. I’m pretty sure I’m going to be sick on field day every year for the foreseeable future.

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Field day was an overstimulating annoying unorganized mess. And now I have to deal with the aftermath all afternoon. The children are at lunch right now. I want to go home, but I can’t.

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Tomorrow is field day. For those of you who remember it fondly — tug-of-war, and races and parachute, and those ice pops they always gave you that were in the sleeves and melted the moment you touched them — please don’t let me tarnish your memories.

However —

Field day is my least favorite day of the year. As a teacher, I am outside all morning in the hot hot sun. My children are running around and screaming and they get to throw sponges at each other and they get to drip water on each other and they generally get to get quite wet and possibly muddy. Then I have to take those children who are sun crazed and soaking wet and running on adrenaline back inside and I get to tell them to change into their clean clothes. And then I have to teach them for the rest of the afternoon.

Pray for me…😫

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Cute!

The Anne Shirley Opening dropped and Naoko Yamada has delivered yet another masterpiece.

Love everything about it, be it the song or the animation itself. It captures her personality so well, as well as the nature of the show. Just the way they captured her body language is perfect.

Some really strong openings this anime spring season, but this is a top contender.

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They’re doing it to vex me...

Teacher Woes

It's 9 degrees outside and the wind is making it feel like -8. There are 3-4 inches of snow with ice underneath.

You'd think this would mean we'd at least have a 2 hour delay. Or a remote learning day. We sent computers home with the kids in anticipation of just such an event. Other schools in the area have a delay.

So why is it almost 6:30 and I'm defrosting my car and preparing to go in at the normal time? Someone explain!

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Teacher Woes

It's 9 degrees outside and the wind is making it feel like -8. There are 3-4 inches of snow with ice underneath.

You'd think this would mean we'd at least have a 2 hour delay. Or a remote learning day. We sent computers home with the kids in anticipation of just such an event. Other schools in the area have a delay.

So why is it almost 6:30 and I'm defrosting my car and preparing to go in at the normal time? Someone explain!

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Turned off the inbox because I keep getting spam messages. Ugh…

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If you’re one of the people shooting off fireworks in my neighborhood, I want you to know that you woke up a really cute little kitty who was sleeping on my pillow. You also woke me up, and now I can’t get back to sleep, but I’m more upset about the little kitty. Marshall was so cozy and you woke him up! Rude!

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Merry Christmas! 💚❤️✨🎄🎁 Lots of health, joy, peace, love, and may all your dreams come true! 🤗

Thank you! Merry Christmas!

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