Wow, am I tired! But I’m a good kind of “I got something done today” tired. So here are the results of my Saturday at school, I have lots of things to share from today, but I’m going to keep this to an overview and then go into more detail on a later post. Confession: After I posted yesterday about Half Price Books, I got the itch to go check out the clearance section.

I just realized I never took a picture of my spoils, shoot! I bought 36 books for $1.00/ea–what a STEAL! The clearance section was the super well stocked, sometimes I go and the shelves are mostly empty, but today they were fairly bursting! I was planning on only  spending 20 minutes or so, but I ended up browsing for almost an hour. It was worth it. I got several great novels, Including The Wright 3 by Blue Balliett, I have the other two in this series Chasing Vermeer and The Calder Game, but The Wright 3 has eluded me, until today! (These books are amazing and unique, I highly recommend them!) I also bought several really good picture books and a couple of non fiction books, including one that is 50 pirate biographies, I know that one will be popular! I started adding picture books to my classroom library last year and I was amazed by how much my kids liked them, and how often I could use them in a lesson. Now I’m always looking for good 3rd-4th grade level picture books.

Ok, onto my progress! The easiest way to tell you about what I did today is just to show you, so here we go!

Classroom under construction: Altering this cabinet to fit my needs!

I literally had to climb inside this cabinet to get to the back peg holes drilled!

Ta-Da! Now my cabinet is ready for my classroom sets of books.

All my class sets of books in their new home, don't they look happy! (And organized?!)

Ok, I’m going to call that a day. I did WAY more today in my room, but I want to do it justice and I’m out. So more about Operation Classroom Library tomorrow.