It was back to school for me today! I finally moved all of my belongings over to my new classroom in my new building. This year I will be a Cheston Elementary School Cougar.
I will be teaching ESL this year. From what I understand, the building primarily uses a pull-out approach. There are three ESL teachers in the building, me being one of them.The building is pretty old so there is no air conditioning. My nephew Donavin and I sweated it out in a 90 degree room. While I have been pretty spoiled over the past couple of years in a building that was completely gutted and renovated with A/C, I am kind of excited to get back to my "roots". My "roots" are Scott School in Harrisburg, PA. It's the kinda school with hot, humid, heat and critters that crawl around and might surprise you from time to time. It's the building where you don't bring any food into the room for fear it might be gone or nibbled on overnight.
The two other teachers and I are sharing two classrooms. The two classrooms have a divider that can be opened and closed as needed. We will keep the divider open and share these two large classrooms. We are pretty lucky to have such a large space. I have never shared a classroom before, so I am excited to see the results once we have it all set up. Here are the BEFORE photos.
Today, I worked on unpacking and putting things away in my desk. I wanted a desktop organizer. When I went to Target, everything was silver, black, or tan. Since I don't work in a business office, I wanted something with a bit more flavor. For some reason, I am really into the bright colors this year. It really isn't like me, but it's fun. I've been wanting to do a project with duct tape, but I wasn't sure what. Finally, something! Donavin picked out the bright pink duct tape, and I picked out the lamp. The lamp was my splurge item this year. It wasn't a good deal, but it was on sale!
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What can you do with duct tape?
Even with sharing the room with other people, you have a HUGE room! I start school in 2 days. I'm nervous, even though it's my 29th yr. Most of my time has been in Kindergarten. Good luck in setting up.
ReplyDeleteHi Pam! I know that I am very lucky to be given such a room! It is by far the biggest space I have ever worked in. Isn't it funny how we still get nervous. I'm starting year eight. I am almost positive I am more nervous than the students on the first day. They at least know some of each other! Good luck starting your year! Congrats on making it to year 29 with a smile!!!
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