Final Preparations

Tomorrow is the big day. We've been doing the final preparations on our rooms and getting things ready for the first day of classes. We thought we'd share a few photographs of our classrooms as we head into school tomorrow. First is Beth's room on the south side of the school. In the first picture, you can see the wonderful bulletin boards that she has in place. The one on the far right is for the Olympic reading competition that she and the other English teacher have devised. The second picture shows the rest of Beth's room. Hanging in the center of the room is a brand new projector that Beth will have access to for Power Point presentations and the like.

Dave's classroom is shown below. In the first picture, you can see the desk where all of Dave's magical lesson planning will happen. The globe in the left of the picture is a new one that the previous social studies teacher ordered before she left. Perhaps the best part about it is that it lights up at the flick of a switch. This will be very handy for getting into some in-depth geographical questions with the students. The photo to the right shows the rest of Dave's classroom. As you can see, his bulletin boards are not nearly as creative as Beth's. He has simply placed maps all over the walls. It is also important to note the rack for a projector sticking out of Dave's ceiling. If you look closely, you will see that there is not projector there. Dave's was not one of the chosen rooms to get a projector this year. Hopefully, Beth will be generous in sharing her room with the social studies classes.

After a long day of preparation, we came home to a nice warm pizza that was freshly baked by Umilla, our ayah. Someone along the way taught her a number of western recipes. So far, she has made us lasagna, quiche, and pizza and they have all been excellent. We're now hoping that we'll be able to get to bed early so that we'll have plenty of energy for our middle schoolers tomorrow.

Dave and Beth