Back to School

As we all know, it's back-to-school time!  For me, this means spending countless hours preparing my classroom for the new year.  This is my third classroom in three years, which means lots of packing, unpacking, organizing, re-organizing, arranging, hanging, and re-hanging.  It also means staying at school for 12-14 hours each day to go from this

to this. 

This room will be filled with 17 little ones bright & early tomorrow morning, and I will hereby be exhausted for the next two weeks (it is a well-known fact that the first two weeks of kindergarten are, for lack of a better term, completely insane).  There is one little project that I hope to share on here in the next few days, that is if I can manage to get home before dark.  Directly at the bottom center of this photo is a little preview of the project.