Back to School

Remember all of those pictures I put up of my classroom?  It looks nothing like that now.  I ended up moving a bunch of things around and I took some stuff off of the walls.  The district doesn't want many 'manufactured' things (aka. posters) on the walls....instead, we are supposed to add things we do with the class throughout the year.  I left up the word wall, calendar, and map (Michael worked too hard on it for me to take down!) but almost everything else came down.

I had all of my computers set up yesterday (5 for students and one for me). It is all starting to look and feel like a classroom now. I also got my class (homeroom) roster.  Here is how it works....I am the reading/social studies teacher and will teach 3 separate classes.  One will be my homeroom and will begin/end the day with me and the others will just switch throughout the day.

It has been a hard transition to get up super early and go non-stop all day long. Tomorrow I have a meeting at 6:30am.....so while I would love to blog everyday, my updates will be more scattered from now on.

On another note, HOUSTON HAS WAY TOO MANY PEOPLE!  It took me 40 minutes to get home from work today (and I went the back way to avoid the traffic).

All in all, we are still transitioning to our 'grown-up' life in the 'big city'.