Chelsea's Reflection (Ch.3, On Solid Ground)

I really enjoyed reading Chapter 3. The teacher who does all these things
in her classroom is amazing. I like her point of view on teaching. She
involves her students much into reading. I especially like the way her
classroom is set up. It is definitely very home-like. The children must
feel comfortable in her classroom with all the sofas, rugs, plants, rocking
chair, and book shelves. For some students, it may remind them of their
own home. I wonder how her students concentrate not having real desks
of their own and sitting on the floor. I like this idea, but for me I would
have a hard time trying to do all my work by sitting on the floor. I am
more focused when I am sitting on a chair with a nice sized table for me
to work on. It makes me feel more organized. With students sitting on
the floor, they might not be able to sit straight all the time and may tend
to slouch because they don't have any back support. I don't think I would
want my children sitting on the floor, but I really like her ideas about
setting up her classroom. I want to have floor rugs, book shelves, plants,
and maybe even a class pet. It's also great that she gets all her supplies
for her students before they come to school and has the parents reimburse
her after so that she can get started on her class routines the first day of
school. I'm sure she finds cheap enough supplies that it saves the parents
time in having to go out and buy the supplies themselves. I also like this
idea because every student has the exact same thing and makes everything
better organized. Most of the ideas this teachers has are great ideas.
They're good to keep into consideration for my own classroom one day. I
have some ideas of my own in setting up my classroom and can't wait to
try them out when that day comes. Hopefully everything will work out
just-right.