School Work Days

Ah back-to-school. Freshly sharpened pencils, school shopping, organizing, new clothes, the whole deal. I loved it as a kid and apparently I still look forward to it as an adult. And not just in the "oh-thank-heavens-my-kid-is-out-of-my-hair-again" kind of way (although there is some measure of that.)

So in that vein, we were at school today helping get the classroom ready for kids next week. Z's teacher is a brand new teacher and he needs help organizing all of the classroom hand-me-downs, cleaning stuff, decorating stuff, etc. And so we headed down there. Z was into the cleaning at first, but he is 6, so it can't last forever. So he and his buddy went out to play for awhile and then he sat down to this:



And this is what the reading corner looked like when we left today. Everything is stacked into piles of similar material (holidays, general fiction, chapter books, Magic Tree House, etc.) I'm thinking that window would be nice with some curtains. Maybe just a valance?