Classroom Set Up Day 1

So it begins.....
I went into my class to actually do work and not just hide drop off my purchases.I usually go in the week before we officially start, but as I am going to be on vacation that week, I had wanted to come in this week. These are the before pics (not bad right?)

The back strip of lino is not waxed yet and that makes setting up a little tricky, fortunately, I have a LOT to do, so it's not that big of a deal.
I started on the library/morning meeting side of the class and organized my toys and books. I bought two 3-drawer containers to store toys (Lego, gears, Playmobile, blocks, etc) and two teal ottomans to pull double duty as seating for the special helper and as storage for my train set and little bear/puppet/barbie furniture. With those things off the shelves and everything else moved to one set of shelves, I was able to free up two more shelves for books! I am very happy about that as my books are taking over!

 After I had that organized, I started scanning my picture books and adding them to my library app!

 Now I know what books I have and won't buy duplicates. I like this app, but wish that it would read all my books, not just the ones with a "real" ISBN number. Oh well, I was able to scan in 243 books! That's probably 2/3 of my pictures books! That was a pretty big job and my back was a tad sore. So I moved on to getting some photocopying done.

I wanted to get my pirate glyph done, and I also wanted to get as much photocopying done as I could, because as the school gets more populated, the photocopier will be in high demand! Here is the fruit of my labors:

I also arranged my desks, so that I can start piling things onto them! haha

Then I went onto Pinterest and starting printing off some things that I will need for the first few weeks of school (yikes it's coming fast) I started by printing off these Daily 5 signs that I found on ladybug teacher files.

I used my circle cutter to cut them out and to mount them onto card stock. I will laminate them later this week. I really love how much these signs pop!!
So all in all, a productive day. Tomorrow, more organizing and arranging! WOOT (I guess) haha!