Setting Up My Classroom

I have spent the last couple of days setting up my classroom. I need to go to the teacher store and get some letters for some bulletin boards. I have met so many people, and everyone says the same thing. They all say, "This is a great school." That makes me feel really good. It turns out that many of the teachers were Teaching Fellows, but most of them transferred to this school.

I love the math department. There are three teachers. Elizabeth, Shana, and myself. We have a math coach and that's Gail. Gail has been in education for many years and is just an amazing resource of information.

I still haven't received my start up supplies. I am planning to get them tomorrow. I also bought some cleaning product to get rid of tape residue. This school is masking tape happy and I do not like tape residue on doors or cabinets. So, tomorrow I am taking care of the sticky mess left on a lot of surfaces. I did see our text book for 6th grade. Still haven't seen the 7th grade text, but again I'm hopeful for tomorrow. One other thing I'll look for tomorrow is a power cord for my projector. Hmmmmm.....

I think my classroom is set up pretty well. I'll take a picture of it tomorrow. I have to be at school at 8am so I need to leave my apartment at 6:45 for the at least one hour commute. We'll see how it goes. I am getting a chance to read a book or two on my commute! I guess that's a good thing.