Today, I spent most of the day rearranging and organizing the classroom. It was a much needed change because my desk was absolutely in the wrong place.
My desk now faces the kiddos and my back faces the wall. Oh yeh, now I can see everything!! When my mother and I first set up the room my desk was near the window and I was facing outside.
I had a nice view of the road but not a view of what was going on behind my back. Most of the time the kids work independently and come to me when they have a question. For the most part they are well behaved but there is a bit of room for mischeviousness when mama can't see. them. I don't have eyes in the back of my head but my ears are quite keen. (lol)
My desk is not that big and neither is the room but it works out well when things are organized properly. Now all my paper, calendar, answer keys, printer and daily lesson binder are in the right hand corner by my desk. Before some things were on my right and some on my left making it harder to access.
This will be my new workstation, a nice cozy corner of the room. I like my calendar laid out on the fourth shelf, wide open because if I do not look at it throughout the day I will forget certain important things.
I added this bookcase because we had all of our games, activity books, atlases, dictionaries, etc all on different shelves. Now this is the central location for all of most of our weekly resourses.
Lastly, the new positon makes me closer and more available to the little ones. There desk is now directly across from theirs. I think this was a needed change and will be an all around better situation for all of our needs. Hopefully, my back being against the wall is a good thing!!
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