Closing Out The Classroom

So today I completed all the end of the year stuff I need to do. I emptied my classroom of all my stuff, cleaned it all up and am pretty much ready to walk away. It's sad to put all the decorations, books and things away. Taking the room back to it's skeleton is insane. Even if you are at a school that you don't like (and I wasn't), it's just sad to put all the work, the joy, the struggle and the thrills into boxes, like they were truly confined to just a document or book. So anyway, that's what I did today.