tara's reflection for taberski's ch. 3

When I saw the layout of Taberski's classroom, the first thing that came to mind was, "where are all the children's desks?!?" At first the idea was kind of shocking since I have never seen a classroom where there weren't any desks. But I guess if it makes Taberski and her students feel equal and comfortable then it's okay. But for me personally, I would like to have desks in my classroom. I'm a traditional person I guess you can say. I dont think I can function if there isnt any student desks in my classroom. I was kind of wondering when I was reading this chapter how Taberski's students do their work?? Do they do it on the floor?? I dont know if I missed the part where she mentioned anything about where her students do their work but that was the part that concerned me. I dont think I would like to have my students do their work on the floor. Her room does seem very reader friendly though. The layout of it looks like there's books every where. I was taking notes of the layout of my mentor teacher's room from last semester. My mentor teacher has two sections of her room that have books. The section nearest to the windows is a small library equipped with a little couch. It basically looks like a little room and I thought that was neat. Its like the children can get away from the rest of the class and be in their own world in the little library. The other section is near her work area by the door. Those books are leveled and the kids know every morning that they come in, take out their reading folders and grab a book (at their level) to take home to read to their parents. Then they can take out their independent reading folders and change books if need to. Its cute because they all know what level they are at and they just go and do it. My mentor teacher or I didnt have to remind them. The kids already were learning to be independent and I liked that.