the first post

First of all, I have to say that I don't know a thing about what I'm doing.

I almost wish I would have started this blog during my job search, but all you would have gotten would have been a lot of annoyed, scared, impatient posts. I sent out applications to more than 12 schools and when finally got a call asking me if I would like to accept an offer at a school and I didn't know what to say.

Now that we're about a month away from school getting started I have started getting my classroom ready. This is the main reason for this post. As you go through the process of college and student teaching you learn a lot of things about where posters and books and tables and chairs and desks should all be placed. A lot of it is through osmosis. So now that I have my own classroom to decorate and arrange, I can only hope that I am making the right decisions about where things are going...

As I walked in the first day, all the furniture was pushed to one side, nothing was on the walls, there was math and reading and books, author study things, etc scattered about the room. My strategy was to go through every single thing so that I knew what I had. It has taken me four days just to see what I have in my room.

After four days of cleaning and re-arranging I've started to get posters up. It's a job that seems like it will never end. My sister helped me the first two days, and she seemed to think that we should have been done on that second day. However, I know I still have a long way to go. Books need to be categorized, names put on things, curriculum gone through, and many many more things!

The thing that makes this getting-a-classroom ready so much more exciting is that I have just moved back into my mom's house AND I just got a new puppy. So there is a LOT going on in my home/classroom/life at the moment!