As I close out my 14th year, I've just learned that I'm heading back down to first grade.  I taught first for ten years, and I loved every almost every minute of it.  But when my school received a $100,000 technology grant, and I was chosen (offered) to move up to middle school to help with the implementation of the grant, I figured I might as well try something new.  I first taught technology and 8th ELA, then technology and 6th ELA, then 6th ELA and this year I was 7th ELA all year and taught 8th half a year.  Needless to say, with all the changes every year, I found it difficult to jump back and forth.  I've been dying to get back into first, and was finally granted my wish after four years in middle school. Don't get me wrong, I actually LOVED my middle school students and loved the challenge of technology and Language Arts.  I will post my ELA classroom just because most of the bloggers who display their classrooms are the "little" people.  I a......