Time to declutter my classroom!

Hello All,

I went back to school to work in my classroom today.  I need to take my camera with me and take pictures; however, I will probably wait until it is finished.  As of right now, it is one big, hot mess!  

I've decided where to have my reading nook, where my student tables will be, and I think I know where I will place my math wall.  Although ... I use my Promethean board for most of calendar time.  I do like to have a physical calendar up for the students to use.  

I've placed my writing materials, sorted my leveled readers and decided where my teacher table will be.  I've put bookshelves where I think that I want them and am pretty sure that I will like how I have everything.  Right now it is about sorting through boxes and boxes of stuff.  

I've begun going through games and putting them in gallon zip top bags instead of keeping them in their boxes.  They boxes look ratty and are very bulky.  The bags are easily replaced (and cheaply too!) and don't take up as much room.  I am going to sort them by subject and skill after I have them bagged.  This will make finding a game for a certain skill so much easier!

I am looking at things very judiciously as some of my stuff is really too easy for second.  I am deciding what to keep, what to send back to the new Kindergarten teacher, what is useless to anyone and needs thrown away, and what I need to store.  This is a long and tedious process, but in the end it will be worth it; I know that when I am finished I will be very happy with the results.

I still need to:

1. Hang curtains.
2. Cover my one bulletin board with fabric.
3. Put boarder on my word wall. (I'm going to use a thin ribbon as it is a small space and I want as much room as possible for words.)
4. Dust my computers.
5. Finish sorting through the bazillion boxes of stuff from this room and the one I left.
6. Move the tables into their homes.
7. Clean and put down my carpet.
8. Sort A.R. books.
9. Get bins for student supplies.  I like to have two for each table (seats 6) and each table has its own color.
10. Clean tables.
11. Purge filing cabinets.  (This will be a big job and make be tackled a little bit at a time through the coming school year!)
12. And probably a million other things that I cannot think of right now.

Well, I literally worked from 8:30 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. tonight, moving shelves, sorting through boxes, books, and games.  I am tired and I think that I will call it a night!

Night all!

Mrs. Hall