First Day is Tomorrow...

Oh my goodness! Summer is completely over tomorrow! :( I always hate when summer seems to end so quickly. This year seemed more quick than in the past. I think it's because we went into the middle of June and now we start in the middle of August. That's only 2 months! When did our summers get so short?

I've been getting more and more nervous all week. I think I've been psyching myself out. Thank goodness I know my team members already. That means I will have 2 people to sit with. It's tough being the new girl. I went through that before in high school...and that didn't quite go so well. (ha) But there is a familiar face that moved from my old school to my new school, so that's comforting! :)

I have to be there at 8am tomorrow. I was trying all week to get to bed earlier to be ready for this upcoming week. But anytime I wanted to go to bed, I couldn't. The mind gets going on things that just keep me busy. It's mostly worrying about school stuff. I want the teachers to like me and I want to have my room ready with my plans ready to teach when the kids walk in the following Monday.

Wish me luck... Hopefully I can sleep tonight! :)

Classroom set up!

This is my classroom in progress. I started by moving the tables into groups of 4 except for one table of 5. There really isn't a lot of space. At least for what I was used to. It's a whole different ball game when designing a 5th grade room as opposed to a 2nd grade room. I want it to still be fun and colorful, but I don't want them to feel babied...

Jennie came to school with me yesterday to put some butcher paper on the bulletin boards to be ready. It was a great help! I just need to work on my library. I found lots of old books from when I was a kid. They are in my reading area now. I also ordered several books from the Scholastic website!

I'm so nervous to start this new adventure, but I know it is a good and much needed change. Watch me just love every minute of it, I hope! :) Til later in the week! Hopefully I will get more pictures up!