As many of you know, Sam moved buildings this year. This afternoon, we went over to his new classroom to "clean it out!" From what he's heard, there'd been three different teachers in that room, one each of the last three years.
From what I saw, NO ONE took any of their stuff with them! Seriously, there were three teacher chairs. Sam picked his favorite to keep. The other two are gone. There was a rocking chair - in fifth grade! And an old fashioned wooden desk. Both gone now.
I cleared twelve - count them - twelve shelves of books! And found a bunch library books that were never returned to the library. They will be now.
Every drawer had a box of crayons. We'd hate to keep them all in the same place, right? Thirty headsets. What for? Now boxed and in the hall. Curriculum from 2011. Dumpster!
We had two choices - to laugh or to cry! Some of the finds were pretty hysterical, from the Halloween bucket to a closet full of writing paper (everything is now on line!) to the bouquet of purple silk flowers! Need one earring? We found it! My favorite were the PVC pipe self-readers. You speak into one PVC pipe end and hold the other end up to your ear so you can hear yourself read. Someone actually took the time to cover the middle in turquoise polka dot contact paper! Dumpster!
We're not sure if we should go back tomorrow for seconds or take a day of rest.
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