My Classroom!

 My morning commute from Compton.  Only 45 minutes.

 Working hard?  Before picture!

 Break at Manhattan Beach 

 My rat catching, IKEA navigating, bulletin board master.

 Name Tags

 Library

 Bulletin Boards - so many colors!!

Quotes above the board: "Make yourself proud." and "Never never never give up!" 

 Student pictures will be in the film strips on the wall.

 My creative sun - the windows were so bare!

 My "desk" with St. Ignatius quotes along the back wall.

 Word Cemetery and Alive Words

 Boxes above the cabinets for each student to build a portfolio 

throughout the year as more authentic assessment - hopefully!

 Library again

Pace Space!  For early finishers, students who haven't completed homework and 

students who need to step "out" of the class for awhile.  Dr. Knotts would be so proud!

Pictures!!

Summer of PLACE!  aka one of the best summers ever.

Not very long and no house pictures yet, but here's some stuff I've been doing this summer to have fun outside of lots of 4th grade observations and classes: 

 

My summer roommates at LMU: Hayley, Maria, Jen

At a Dodgers game!  they actually won!

 In San Diego for July 4th: Mark, Caroline, me, Maria, and Jessica.  

Check out the surfing/wave machine behind us!

Send off for the graduating Cohort: Armando, Chris, Mark, Erin, Beth, Hayley, me, John

Commissioning Mass with my whole Cohort 11, the bishop, Fr. Scholla, Fr. Mike

(former PLACEr!), and Fr. McGarry (the Provincial of the CA Province of the Jesuits)

Yolanda (former pastoral assistant at DM/Jesuit Wonder Woman),  

Nicole, Mr. Watkins, an amazing donor, me, and Liz. Liz (former 3rd grade at DMS) and 

Nicole (FJV in my position and former 4th grade teacher) inspired me to apply for 

PLACE and have been the most amazing supports and motivators I could have asked for!