Schoolisahappyplace.blogspot.com Website Review

It's mid-July and my summer break is almost over.  I have about a week before teachers report back.  Like many of you, summer is to-do list season.  I have a short, but time consuming to-do list this summer.  A list that includes, cleaning out my Teachers Pay Teachers store (more on that task later in the post), organizing my basement (insert frowny face), sharing a little about my past school year, and (for the second summer in a row) moving clas*rooms. While, I don't know if I'll ever get my basement truly clean and organized, this afternoon I have a few minutes to share a little about my past school year. So, yay! for checking an item off my summer to-do list. If you ever visit School Is a Happy Place, you've probably noticed that I have been conspicuously absent during most of this school year.  I'm not a prolific blogger but, I normally do not let months go by without a post.  That is, until this past year. Rewind back to the end of last summer, I had a very last minute job offer at a wonderful neighborhood school that I had wanted to work at for years and is very close to my house.  When I say last minute, I mean hired Friday afternoon and teachers report back on Monday.  That weekend, I had to pack my clas*room home, in which I had lived for 17 years.  I had to simultaneously move in and clean out a clas*room of a 30+ year veteran teacher that decided to retire at the eleventh My moving team, was comprised of my parents, my husband and my nine year old daughter.  They were awesome.  We loaded and unloaded and cleaned and purged and dusted and painted.  It was a crazy amount of work, in a super short period of time.  But, we did it.  We had my clas*room ready for open house night in less than one week. The move to this new school meant a grade level change.  I went from an established first grade teacher to a newbie third grade teacher.  Since my daughter had just finished third grade, I felt as though I had a good idea what I was in for.