Work Day #10 and #11

Hello Y'all,

Well I worked in my classroom yesterday and today.  Mr. Hubs and my Little Love came with me today.  Mr. Hubs hooked my computers back up and cleaned them out and everything.  My little love seemed to enjoy undoing some of the things I had finished with.  Oh well, I am almost finished so no sweat.  She was really good today, all things considered.  

I will need to put one more day in and then I should be finished!  I will not be back in there until next week.  Tomorrow Mr. Hubs and I are going to go watch a matinee of Transformers for date day and the school is closed for the halls to be waxed on Thursday, Friday and Monday so I can't get back in until Tuesday.  I would have to take my Little Love with me or to Nana's house (her WONDERFUL babysitter) on Tuesday and Wednesday due to Mr. Hubs working if I went either of those days so I will probably wait until next Thursday.  Well that was a bit of a ramble.  

Over the past two days I have:

1. emptied, sorted and gotten rid of all but two of the various cardboard boxes from my old room.  I know what is in these last two boxes; I just have to decide where to put the contents.
2. had Mr. Hubs hooked up my computers and he even clean them.
3. had Mr. Hubs clean and hook my refrigerator back up!  (He volunteered to do it!)
4. cleaned bins.
5. put my tables where I want them to go.
6. cleaned my pocket chart stands.
7. hung valences in my windows, my closet alcove and on the classroom door window.
8. hung curtains over the four shelves that store my manipulatives.  My mother and father came down Monday and helped make the curtains for everything.  That took all day so technically I should call it a work day as well!
9. sorted games and manipulatives.  This is an area that still needs some work and will probably not be worried about until I use them during the school year.
10. began hanging clothespins from the ceiling using fishing line...this lets me hang student work from the ceiling.

The room is really beginning to look like a classroom and not a storage room.  I am really excited about it!  I don't have anything decorated for a classroom theme yet; I've just sorted, thrown out trash, and put things away.  

I haven't quite decided on a classroom theme for this coming year.  I keep thinking about it.  I probably won't make a decision until the week before open house.  But decorating is easy once I decide on my theme.  The most time consuming part of decorating is writing student names over and over.  

Still to go:

1. finish putting away what is left on the tables in the classroom.
2. clean up from Little Love's visit!
3. sweep on last time.
4. place chairs.
5. put lights in my lamps.
6. bring my computer bench to school.
7. clean and put my carpet down for the whole group area.  (The janitors will shampoo it when the have time!--They really are wonderful.)
8. finish hanging clothes pins from the ceiling.
9. put pocket chart carts out of the way and place my big book easels and reading easel in their spots.
10. set up my daily math wall.  It won't have a lot on it due to the fact I prefer to use the Promethean Board.
11. decide on a classroom theme.
12. decorate.
13. write student names on things.
14. attend mandatory district trainings.

Well it is late and I need to get little love settled down for the night-so good night all.  

Mrs. Hall