Reflection 1

My ideal classroom will be held somwhere here in Utah. It will be a public elementary school holding many kids all with different lives and stories. Everything that i will explain will be taking place with my twenty five students, in my thrid grade classroom.
We will have many windows that cover the walls letting the sun light stream in throughout the day giving the class room a nice warm feel. Inbetween these window there will be art work that the kids have done during the year so that all the classmates can see each others work. Against one of the walls i want to have an upright piano so that i can teach my kids songs to help them learn certain things. In one corner of the room i will have a rocking chair. This corner will be the reading corner, with book shelves full of different books that i can read to my kids as they gather around my rocking chair.
The school that i will be teaching at won't have all the money in the world, but they do have a nice play ground for the kids to play on at recess. I will have some sort of budget that the school can give me. Other times i will have to go out and spend my own money and buy things for my kids.
My kids will all come from different life styles. Some of the girls will be coming in beautiful dresses while others just have hand-me-down sun dresses. They guys will all be dressed in jeans, yet you will be able to tell that some are new while others are worn out. Even though the kids are different they will still treat each other with resepct and all get along.
I really love my kids and i love the people that i work with. My colleagues are great people and become good friends of mine. We share stories and help each other out with different situations in the class room. The hard part is that some of the parents are either to busy to help their child with homework or just don't care. So me, as the teacher, has to be the one that cares and lets those students know that they are smart and can become all that they want to be.
My job is the best and one that i love. My class room has the feeling of home and happiness, so that the children always feel welcome and exctied to come to school and learn.