Back to School

I went to Wal-Mart the other day and the workers were busy stocking the shelves with school supplies. Can it ready be getting close to that time again?! It seems like summer just started, especially here in Missouri. For those of you who are not familiar with Missouri summers, they are typically hot, humid, and miserable. This year it has been a very, very mild summer (I hope I just didn't jinx it) so it doesn't even feel like summer has been here yet.

We start school on August 14th, which is coming up a lot faster than I thought it would. So today I decided to get in gear and start making the easy things for my classroom so I can hopefully get in and start working on it this week. I've been working on binder covers, banners, posters...just general things.

I went supplies shopping during Walmart's teacher appreciation sale and got tons of things that we'll need throughout the year. Today I got to get in my classroom and start getting stuff together for the upcoming year. Below are a bunch of pics of what I've been doing this summer. I'll let you see the finished product once school begins.

The bookshelf where each group's ISN bucket is located and where kids will put their binders. Each freshmen gets a binder that they put their work in.

The bins are where extra papers are located for each class. This just helps me stay organized.

My desk. It's a hot mess right now.

The massive "bulletin board." It wasn't really a bulletin board but a little paper and border makes it one.

The front of the room. The pennant banner adds a little something to the front of the room.

This is where class info is gonna go. These ugly room dividers are gonna get made over big time. Notice my wonderful Filetastics that I got on sale :).

The back of the room. It's boring but hopefully not for much longer.