First Day Back to School

One day down, and it actually went really well!I have 5 art 1 classes, and one Art 2-3 class (I only have 1 student in Art 3). This is different, last year I only had 4 Art 1 classes. As of today, I had 143 students total. That is LOT of kids to get to know. Today went pretty smoothly, all I did was introduce myself, pass out my syllabus and go over everything it said with them- and then I gave them free time. I knew better than to try to make them work during the entire class period on day one- SO not gonna happen. Tomorrow? Maybe.

The thing I was most excited about was my new Rules signs, I made a specific one with all of my actual rules, but I found some online that I printed out too...haha I love Mr. T!

Summer Cleaning

So yeah, I had pretty much abandoned this thing except to read my friend's blogs. That's probably the way it will go again in no time.

I've just spent the evening organizing and cleaning my house. It's going to take many more nights like this one to get it to where I would like it to be, but tonight was BIG progress. I've been working in my dining room/workroom, which until tonight had really been a Catchall-I-Don't-Want-To-Deal-With-These-Boxes-Right-Now room. Its been full of boxes, with a path through the middle so I can walk through my house, and now my dining room table is set up, and a work table is set up, and there is a huge pile of empty boxes and trash in the backyard waiting to go out to the trash tomorrow. This could even inspire me to finish the rest of the house...

Once I get this room finished, I promised myself I could go to the thrift store and get the new tv table, and dresser that I found the other day. Yay! New furniture!