Oh my word friends!!! I've bitten off more than I may be able to chew this summer. Unfortunately, I haven't taken as many pics as I would have liked, but here's the run down.
I didn't exactly clean out my classroom on the last day of school. I figured our wonderful custodians wouldn't get to my room until after July 4th because of summer school on my end of the building. I went back to work on it about two weeks after school was out. They had cleared my room!!!! Stuff everywhere! Floors ready to be waxed! I had intended to throw out a TON of stuff. It was time for a purge. Even though my room had been cleared, my son was doing the art class in summer school for three days, and I had planned on working, so I did.
So far this summer I have:
tossed 6 bags of trash (those big black bags that fit in the cans at our kids bathrooms!)
taken out 8 boxes of recycling (paper and cardboard)
taken 30, 000 staples to the office for redistribution
Given the office probably 40 or more pens for redistribution (I may have an office supply problem!)
Packed 2 crates full of books into the back of my truck to take to McKay's tomorrow!
I kept looking around the room today wondering where to start. I finally decided to start at the classroom door and work my way around the perimeter. To help encourage me to keep going I took before and after pics of each area and sent them to my sister, who was working today. Here is what I accomplished.
What a difference a little motivation makes! What you can't see is that believe it or not, I even organized the "storage" I utilize the top cubbies for. I have 32 cubbies and I've never had more than 20 kids (yes, I know I am BLESSED!!!)
This is looking across the front of the room. It's not too bad, but I had worked on this a lot a few weeks ago. I even reorganized the blue drawers.
Wooohooo! Looking better!
My computer wires always end up looking like a rat's nest over the summer. I even turned on the computers in the after pic to prove to my sis I din't just clean up, but I got them all set up!
I didn't exactly clean out my classroom on the last day of school. I figured our wonderful custodians wouldn't get to my room until after July 4th because of summer school on my end of the building. I went back to work on it about two weeks after school was out. They had cleared my room!!!! Stuff everywhere! Floors ready to be waxed! I had intended to throw out a TON of stuff. It was time for a purge. Even though my room had been cleared, my son was doing the art class in summer school for three days, and I had planned on working, so I did.
So far this summer I have:
tossed 6 bags of trash (those big black bags that fit in the cans at our kids bathrooms!)
taken out 8 boxes of recycling (paper and cardboard)
taken 30, 000 staples to the office for redistribution
Given the office probably 40 or more pens for redistribution (I may have an office supply problem!)
Packed 2 crates full of books into the back of my truck to take to McKay's tomorrow!
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| Who needs this many staples (and I found more after I took this pic!) |
I kept looking around the room today wondering where to start. I finally decided to start at the classroom door and work my way around the perimeter. To help encourage me to keep going I took before and after pics of each area and sent them to my sister, who was working today. Here is what I accomplished.
To the left of the white and clear drawers is my classroom door. My wonderful husband came to the school with me a couple of weeks ago and helped me move the tables into place. Since the alarm was on in the rest of the school, everything got shoved in front of the door to keep the kids from going into the hall. On the right is everything lined up in front of the cubbies.
What a difference a little motivation makes! What you can't see is that believe it or not, I even organized the "storage" I utilize the top cubbies for. I have 32 cubbies and I've never had more than 20 kids (yes, I know I am BLESSED!!!)
This is looking across the front of the room. It's not too bad, but I had worked on this a lot a few weeks ago. I even reorganized the blue drawers.
Wooohooo! Looking better!
My computer wires always end up looking like a rat's nest over the summer. I even turned on the computers in the after pic to prove to my sis I din't just clean up, but I got them all set up!
This is where I ended. This is a hot mess! You can't see all the wonderfulness waiting for me inside the drawers and cabinets. It's awful! I's wrong. No one should have this mess to contend with. The pic doesn't even do it justice. I don't have a desk. My room just isn't big enough. I used the counter as a landing place too much last school year and I'm determined to be more organized this year and not let that happen.
There is so much more to do, but I feel good with today's start. I'll be going back next week. Only three weeks from tomorrow until I officially report.
I hope I haven't bored you. Stay tuned for a classroom reveal next month!
