One exciting thing and one necessary thing happened in my classroom this week.
First, the necessary. I have been meaning, since like spring break last year, to find the time to do a big purge in my room. Just hasn't happened. Last year, I was full of spending all the time I could with my soon to be college girl - and just being plain ole tired. This year, I find that I don't want to spend a Saturday up at the school, all by myself, sorting stuff. Argh, what to do, what to do.
Well, what I decided to do was just stay an hour extra one night a week (or every two weeks, however my life plays out). And then I work on whatever is making me the most nuts. Like this week - I have these cool roll out drawers - three drawers that roll out. Perfect for putting posters, charts, etc. Except with all the crap {is that a bad word?} I had in there, I couldn't lift up things to see what was at the bottom of one of the drawers. So I spent Monday going through that. Yikes, what a bunch of stuff I had in there. Some of it was a little scary. I filled up a whole paper box of stuff to get rid of.
Next, the exciting thing. And this is a biggie!
New desks! {Again, what's with the blurry?!?!?} But really, new desks should be more like
New Desks!
These are so nice - our old desks had the storage area beside the leg opening, so the top of the desk was wider and consequently all the desks took up a lot of room in my room. These new desks have the storage area under the top and so the top is not as wide and consequently I have more available space in my room. I still need to do some tweaking - some rearranging, etc. But I am really happy with these. And one of my kids was so funny, she said, "We get to keep these all year??" Umm, yes, probably until I retire!Hope that you had something exciting happen in your little corner of the world this week. Happy weekend!
