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| I’m greeted every morning by 15 little faces sitting in their enormous plastic patio chair ready to start their day. |
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| I teach the first hour, which is greetings, a color-of-the-day, phonics, spelling, etc., and I try to get them up out of their chairs for some portion of the lesson. Here we tossed a bean bag to someone in the group who had to call out the next letter in the alphabet. |
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| Didn’t take long before I made an alphabet chart for the room; the kids painted the capital letters during craft period and then Robin and I finished the lowercase letters one evening so that I could use them in class. |
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| This is the courtyard (snap taken from the classroom, one floor up) where the kids enter in the morning around 8:30 and leave from at 4:30. They have 3 recessed during the day when they go to the courtyard to play. |
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| The student’s toilet is on one end of the courtyard. Correct, no toilet paper. This is also where we dispose of trash from the house (white/blue/red bucket back right). |
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| Off the courtyard is the nap and changing room. |
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| When the kids arrive each morning, they change from their street clothes into their school uniform: a ratty blue T shirt, mismatched shorts, and a pair of shoes that resemble crocs. They return to their street clothes at 3:30, just before their last recess and dinner. |
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| School shoes. |
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| The kids nap on cue every day from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. |
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