Every year I say I am going to leave my classroom the same and save myself some time, sweat, and tears. Of course, every year I change my mind at the last minute and decide to completely change everything and end up scrambling at the last minute to get everything done. It’s not that I didn’t like the way my room looked last year it’s just that, like a mother bird, I need to “nest” every year and create a new home for my new kids.
Here is a before picture i.e. the condition that I found my classroom in after being gone for a very short two and a half weeks between summer school and our report date for the new school year.
I, naturally, saw this as an opportunity to start from scratch and decided to empty out and reorganize my entire room. Yes, including my classroom library and all of my closets. I have a problem. So, I put everything out in the open and got down to business.
Teaching To The Test-Taker 