Looking Back: My First Classroom

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I began my teaching career in an elementary school set in a small town in Kansas. I loved working at this school! The community was a wonderful community to work in. In 2001, I meet my now husband and moved to Las Vegas in May 2002. Wow! I had such a culture shock. I went from a class of 9 {yes, 9} students to team teaching 36 students. I didn't think I was going to survive that first year here in Las Vegas, but I did. I am so glad to be teaching here, but I sometimes miss my old classroom in Kansas. I have been a little sentimental to all things Kansas lately, so I thought I would share some pictures of my very first classroom. {Please excuse the fact that these are scanned pictures. I took this back in the olden days. haha}

Here you can see the closet doors, my desk, and
my huge windows. I love all tall the ceilings are
and my yellow walls.

Here is the other back corner. You can see one of my
very large chalkboards. Yes, I had chalkboards.

Here is a picture of my wonderful computers and door out to
the hallway. I look at my door now, and I miss it a lot. It was cute and there
was only one of them. Remember the eight doors I have now?
{I'm still protective of my kiddos even though these students are over 20 now. :) }

Here's a picture of my front chalkboard. My favorite chalk
was yellow chalk. I made sure to order a few boxes
every year. :)

My students went to Music and P.E. every day. However, we did not have an art teacher. I did an art project every Friday. The next two pictures are two of the projects that I did with my students.

The students painted a tree with brown paint. They then used a
q-tip to add brown, orange, yellow, and red leaves.

For this picture, I used a KinderArt lesson {which amazingly is
still available 14 years later}. The students were able to decide
if they wanted to color their flowers with cool or warm colors.
I still love looking at what a great job my students did!
{I did the two in the middle. :) }

I hope you have enjoyed my little trip down memory lane. Don't forget to like my Facebook page to get my Rainbow Quatrefoil papers for free under my Fan Freebies tab.