My room is in the "6th grade building" which is basically self-explanatory, a separate building for all the 6th grade classes. There is an upstairs and a downstairs where each floor has a math, reading, english, history, and science class and the kids rotate room to room throughout the day. This means that the teachers that are upstairs will have all the same kids, so they are my "learning community." Let me tell you, it sucks having to go up that flight of stairs with boxes and boxes of stuff, but it is so worth it because the teachers upstairs (in my learning community) are awesome!!! 3 of them I know from before because of summer school, which is really nice.
So I get into my classroom with 3 different colors of butcher paper (red, orange, and yellow because my kids are gonna be on fireeee!!) and I look around and wonder to myself, what the heck am I going to put in this room!? I brought a pack of highlighters, 2 sharpies, and some pens. I put up my yellow bulletin board and the room still looked super plain. I didn't have any supplies! Thinking about the endless amount of money I was going to have to spend on posters, pencils, notebooks, erasers, etc. etc. etc. I was about to call my mom and beg for money (something I've only had to do once in my life... a week ago when I realized I was going to bounce my first check), when Mr. Donovan walked in. Zan Donovan is a 09 TFAer teaching his second year at Deady. He asked me if I wanted to go check out the supply closet with him. Supply closet? What's that? Do they have pencils? Oooo I'm pumped. He kind of just laughed at me. So we made our way to the supply closet, and much to my surprise the supply closet turned out to be a supply room. Zan didn't warn me about this, or the fact that I was not going to be able to carry everything that I wanted and that I should have brought a cart down, or for that matter a flat bed. Luckily, I found a rolly cart in the supply room and was able to use that. I was like a little kid in a candy store. Markers, scissors, construction paper, loose leaf paper, white out, paper clips, staplers, tape dispensers, pencil sharpener, chart paper, composition notebooks, folders.... I could seriously go on forever. Needless to say this little cart was not big enough for all of the stuff I needed...errr....wanted for my room and my future students (all 200 of them). Wow I forgot the most important supplies of them all, dry erase supplies. MY FAVORITE! Dry erase markers are amazing. I have enough for each student so that we can use dry erase boards in class (you can get them at lowes/homedepot for real cheap if anyone is in the market for some dry erase boards). I loaded up my cart, wheeled it to my room- which took about 10 minutes because I kept getting lost- then went back to the supply room, and did this ag
ain 3 more times (including the getting lost part).This is just after the first trip to the supply room!!! -------------->
Needless to say getting all of these supplies (for free) definitely got me really excited. I was super worried that I was not going to be able to get enough stuff for my kids because I just wouldn't be able to afford it! I got so caught up in organizing all my new stuff that I worked straight through lunch, and way passed 3:30 when we were supposed to leave. We don't have anything for my school until next Tuesday, but I'm pretty sure I am going in everyday until them to set everything up.
When I finally ended up leaving school I headed straight to the teacher store because I needed supplies! ha, not really supplies, but more like posters and such to spice up the room. I can't wait to put everything up and have my classroom all ready for my kids!!!
Until next time,
Ms. Schwartz
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