Technology Reflections

Ok well a day and a half, but since my last post was Two Weeks I thought it was a catchy post title

Last week teachers were officially back to set up rooms and have meetings. Actually, our first required day back was Friday, August 10th. I started going in on Wednesday the 8th. I was in for 3 hours on Wednesday and 7 hours on Thursday, but it was worth it. On Wednesday I got the “OMG there’s so much to do I don’t know what to do first so I’ll do nothing” out of the way On Thursday I pretty much got my whole room set up, so on Friday when everyone was back, I didn’t feel guilty taking time to talk to everyone!

There was a whole schedule re-do since my last post, but the good news is that my schedule didn’t change (YAY!). My classes look good – one class has a higher incidence of yahoos, but the rest look pretty good.

I’m really having positive thoughts about this year, but there are two teachers who are really negative. One I can deal with, but the other one is really annoying. I’m just going to try to avoid her as much as I can.

Here are some pictures of my classroom. The pictures are basically a tour around my room starting from walking in the door and turning around to the left. The big purple board will be filled with paper “bricks” that my students will put up when they finish reading a book and pass the Reading Counts test. The brick has a spot to write the book title, the student name and they will get to put sticky stars on it to rate the book. I expect to fill that board up each quarter! (I left the purple paper up over the summer – I hate changing bulletin board paper. It doesn’t really go with the red bricks and the yellow caution tape, but too bad )

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