Centers? WHAT Centers?

I dream of setting up literacy work stations that are well organized, purposeful, meaningful, engaging, and fun places for children to work and learn collaboratively and independently.

Here is an example of the distance between my dream and reality at this point...

Ugh! Boxes "hidden" underneath the table that should have been unpacked over the summer, unappealing area with no clear purpose...at this point, a wasted space.