Extreme Makeover: Classroom Edition

Yep, it's true, I have a lot of stuff.  I mean tons.  So when my friends offered to help me set up my classroom I decided not to share that minor fun fact with them.  This means that when they walked into my classroom they were met with a mountain of first grade fabulousness.

Why yes that is all my stuff and sadly this is after we started working.  Believe it or not it did look WAAAAY worse when we started (for my own personal dignity I did not document that and if I had I more than likely would not share it with the world via the Internet.  It was a mountain of stuff that would have the producers of Hoarders sign me up for the next episode).

Because my friends are pretty much the most amazing people every they attacked my chaos with as much excitement as they could muster.

I mean, really, look at that face.  Don't you just love how excited she is that she got to vacuum my room about 20 times!  That's not even the greatest thing she did.  She cleaned ALL of my computers and helped me with some items that have been on my to-do list for about, oh I'd say 4 years.

Because I'm really good at bossing people around I sent another of my amazing helpers to assemble my outside hallway display.  I documented her progress because well she just looked so official with the ladder and the glue gun is now her best friend :) If you're ever on Craft Wars this is a girl you want on your team, she's awesome!

Didn't she do just a fantastic job! I was so excited with how it turned out because we ventured far from my original plan and it turned out better than I anticipated!

I'm thankful she's such a trooper cause I think she got some of the more irritating jobs.  I don't think she even knows how much it helped me that she was willing to do them though!

So the next few pictures are basically just a couple pictures of what was accomplished in my classroom over the past few days. What you are about to see is (quick math calculation: 9 hours Thursday + 9.5 hours Friday + 9 hours today = 27.5 hours) 27.5 hours worth of work.  I sure hope my recruit for Monday is ready for the final push cause teachers start back Tuesday :)