NATCHEZ &045; Second-grade teacher Hunter Spiers needs more than the two small boxes in the corner to pack up her entire room at McLaurin and move it to a new building across town.

Kindergarten teacher Diane Verucchi merely has to pile what she can on a dolly and roll it from one wing of West Primary to another.

And West’s Lisa Lewis is doing a little box hunting of her own to head to Frazier.

With plans announced and new assignments handed out the move has started for teachers and students at West, Frazier, McLaurin and Morgantown.

McLaurin teachers who know they are headed to a new school building know they have a limited amount of moving time but aren’t exactly sure where they are going to put their stuff.

The questions about room size, room location and storage space are the little details that make Spiers nervous.

The teachers also don’t know who their teacher assistants will be.

Teachers are already packing up what they can and at West some are already moving to their new rooms.

Kindergartners vacating rooms to be used by pre-kindergartners will occupy new classrooms by May 6 of this year. The rooms have to be emptied for new teachers to move into.

&uot;I feel like I just got settled in,&uot; first-year teacher Tricia Stoll said. &uot;As a new teacher, I’ve learned not to get too comfortable. There are just a lot of changes in education. It’s just something you have to adjust to.&uot;

In the school libraries, book sorting is underway. Librarians have to determine which books go to which grade level and then ensure that each school has the right amount for enrollment.

&uot;The original goal was to get everything moved within two weeks,&uot; said Sterling Morris, the librarian at Central Alternative who is heading up the move for the lower schools. &uot;But by the end of May everything should be in the right building.&uot;

Teachers at McLaurin and Morgantown will have to work around state testing which is in early May.

End-of-the-year packing isn’t unusual, teachers said, rooms are always boxed up for summer cleaning, but this time everything has to be boxed.