HERE IT IS FINALLY

This is our janitor on the couch asleep. Mr. Song will come into my office and do this every afternoon. He also tells me in very broken English that I am to tell no one that he does this. He is well into his 60s. He does EVERYTHING at our school and we are terrific friends. We are going to try to put this picture in the yearbook. He jokes about getting mad at us if we do...He always tells me "no speekie" about telling people about this.


Here at my desk...this is the one room that needs a lot of work. The high levels of humidity, coupled with the fact that they try to cut costs by adding water to paint has given the walls the look that it has.


This is a picture of my office looking out towards the gym. You will see a couch where our janitor comes in to take his daily naps and a coffee table. Also my desk is just below.



This picture is in one corner looking at the other. You can see the door leading to where my class was the last two years. I have tripled in size and the students have so much room to run around now. They love it.

This is a picture of my gym that has finally been finished. A lot of work has gone into it trying to get it just right. What you are looking at is the main open area. The ground is made of foam pads that are obviously both red and blue. I chose this design because when I pick teams I wanted to be able to have a clear division in the classroom. The pads are three foot square puzzle pieces. When I got back to school from summer break they were almost finished with the room but they hadn't layed the floor yet and so in two days just before open house Emily Williamson and Kyle Williamson and Dakota Romsa all helped me put the floors down. All of those names are students of mine and also have a parent who is a teacher. Emily 7th grade, Kyle 4th grade, and Dakota is an 8th grader. The pillar in the middle of the room is something that I couldn't get rid of since it supports the rest of the building. I told them that would be okay since we would pad it up as well. Which should happen shortly.