First Day of School Preparations

As you may or may have not read, tomorrow is my first day working at Zooligans, and international Kindergarten. Last week I spent lots of hours at the school with my friend Katie, and we worked on cleaning up the school, organizing, and preparing for the upcoming week. My class is primarily downstairs, so I decided to work on the downstairs area.

When I arrived, toys were haphazardly placed here and there with no purpose. If you know me well, you know that this does not suit me at all. Katie helped me move stuff around and create centers. Then she helped me open up some cabinets in the reading center, decorate them, and put books on them. After that, I made my own calendar, and created my "Circle Time" area. I also came up with decorations for my centers and a board to place kids in centers. I am very pleased with the result and took lots of pictures to share my work with you.

I am super happy with the end result. I was really excited when the Mandarin co-teachers made paper swans to help decorate!

Circle Time with my handmade calendar and Helper Owl using some of the kids old artwork.

Center assignment board with kids old artwork

I made a new friend who was keeping me company in the process. She spoke Chinese to me for quite a while, and I only understood about a fourth of what she said.

I also helped clean up one of the resource rooms, which was quite a mess. Now it is organized and usable.

 Finally, I had time to prep some arts and crafts, including Alli the Alligator, for our letter of the week, A.

I forgot to mention that although my week was VERY successful, I panicked on Thursday. I went to pull up my lesson plans and all of the items I needed to print, and I had somehow deleted the folder. I spent the whole day restoring the files...

I think I am as prepared as I can be for the week. I am slightly nervous, because I have not worked in a full preschool classroom for a while. VERY excited to meet kiddos and parents tomorrow and to begin the adventure!