a little classroom update

I've missed having a classroom to share

Well, hello. It’s been a long time. If you’re still reading this, thanks for sticking around. The beginning of the school year has completely gotten away from me, and now here we are in November and I’m not sure how that’s possible.

For the past few years, I have shared snapshots of my classroom on instagram. I think Montessori classrooms are beautiful, and I love sharing my own photos and seeing photos of other classrooms. I’ve missed having a classroom to share!

I’m in a slow crawl toward Thanksgiving break—just today we sent a kid home with a fever and another who puked. To be honest, the slow crawl toward breaks, the swaths of illness, the day in day out following through that’s so exhausting. I missed it last year, and even though I’m already nursing my second cold in a month, something about this specific kind of exhaustion feels familiar and good. A teacher crawling toward a break exhaustion. Because if you’re a teacher, you know those exhausting things come with really good counterweights. Despite the puke and fever, a child made her first sound book today after practicing Sandpaper Letters. She proudly said each sound in the book that she decorated with pink and yellow colored pencils. She said she can’t wait to add more sounds tomorrow. I can’t either.

All that to say, I’m pretty low on energy and words right now, so here is a photo dump of the past few months at Sage.

Copies of Frank Lloyd Wright prints hanging above the handwriting shelf with Metal Insets. I thought of Metal Insets immediately when I saw these!

One of my goals is to rotate art in the classroom. This is the current gallery wall.

A thrift store haul for Practical Life. (building Practical Life from scratch is really, really hard.)

A cute little transfer activity. I’m sad to inform you that the precious glass with the handle broke. I think it lasted two weeks.

leveling. I found these orange trays at Ikea on fall break.

the morning sunlight is so beautiful. This child painted, and then scrubbed the table. I was working with another child on the 45 layout. This part of the classroom has been a work in progress, and it’s so nice to sit in the morning sun and give lessons.

Someone scrubbing paint off the table. Messes make meaningful work.

If you made it this far, thanks for letting me share some photos from my classroom. I still can’t believe I get to be here every day.