YIKES!, NEWS!, and Monday Made It!

I begin with an overwhelming "YIKES!" I am literally down to hours left...(well two weeks before the kids come), but I am back on the clock Thursday. (Do we really ever get off the clock? LOL) we finally got the okay to go into our school last Thursday, but we were out having a quick trip to the Ft. Worth Zoo, and we got home late Saturday night...so my sweet hubby and I went to my school yesterday.  And this is how my new classroom welcomed me....

  

The stress has set in. However I'm feeling a little better, as my husband volunteered to help me paint my room to freshen it up a bit and today I spent the better part painting trim and touching up the mistakes! I still have one wall of trim left and the doors, but boy do I feel better. I am so thankful to my husband, I couldn't have done it without him.

Now for the news... I will now be teaching ELA instead of Math and Science. I received the news Friday, and feel good about it. We all know how things can change over the summer as staff members leave campuses from time to time and as part of the team we do what's best for our students and school. 

As I said earlier, last week we took a short family trip to Ft. Worth to take my little guy to the zoo.  He loved it, and I think mommy and daddy were loving his reactions even more! So I didn't have a lot of time to work on more goodies, but I did make some labels for my white photo boxes and some calendar helpers, and I'm linking up with Tara from 4th Grade Frolics Monday Made It! to share with you.

I love my little table laminator! It is awesome.  Can you believe I didn't own one until just this year! Click here for a free editable file for the photo box labels.

These are the calendar helpers I created for my class.  I can't wait to see how they'll look.

I hope to have an update on the status of my classroom next time. Off to get some sleep! Wishing you all a great week!