My Own Space!

So, I'm a bucket teacher.  

When I was in middle school, my dad was a "cart teacher."  He didn't have his own classroom so he kept all his materials on a cart and wheeled around the school during passing periods.  (This created prime opportunities for my friends to tattle on me to him which led to "Why did I hear you were chewing gum at school today?" conversations.  Clearly, I was more inconvenienced by his cart status than he was, right?)

Now I'm in different rooms all day and, in fact, have my teacher desk in a classroom where I do no teaching.  So, I have one of those plastic bins for hanging files that I tote from classroom to classroom.  I started out the year with a dud of a bin and was delighted to get a new one that worked better for me.  More delighted when a student noticed and admiringly said, "Oh!  You got a new bucket!"  So, that's me.  A bucket teacher.

My administrators surprised me yesterday by letting me know that I would get "my own room" for exactly one of my classes plus my planning period.  Hey, at least these two periods are consecutive so I get to be in one place for 2 straight hours!  Woo hoo!

I'll still have my bucket but, this will be the first room in the school that I can officially and legitimately call "MINE."  I know all you teachers know what that means:

Borders and posters and bins, oh my!

I am looking forward to creating my own space and establishing better routines for the class that I will have there.  Currently, I pop into the classroom as the previous teacher is finishing up (or running into my class time...) and we trade off computer time and I can't always get my slide up to the screen right away for the start of class nor post my own classroom expectations.  So, I'm excited for yet another fresh start this year.