Room 1B

   After a day's rest, I reported to the school.  I was very anxious to see my classroom and to become familiar with the layout of the school.  To my surprise, the school was very large!  The entire ground floor was dedicated to the Kindergarten rooms, Art, PE, and Music.  The first floor housed grades 1-5.
     The Glenelg School in Ruwais was built in 2010 and this is the third year that it will be open.  With this said, the school is practically brand new.  The halls are covered in beautiful murals, all rooms are equipped with a promethean board, and there are two large computer and science labs.
     The staff represents countries from all over the world, making the school a diverse teaching environment.  Grade one, for example, has five teachers on the team.  We represent Canada, the US, Great Britain, and Australia.  Each of us will bring wonderful ideas and theories from our personal backgrounds, and I can't wait to work with this team.
     Today, along with the rest of the week, will be spent in meetings.  Between my free time, I have managed to set up my classroom.  It was a long process, trying to decide where the shelves and cubbies would go, how many groups of desks, and where the morning meeting should be held.  There should be a course on this in college.  But after much hard work, I finally had a great classroom set-up.