After three weeks of hard work, I'm finally ready to reveal my very first classroom! The teacher that was in my classroom before retired aft...
It's finally time for my classroom reveal! I can't wait to show you guys what a great deal of work I put in to making my classroom look calming and run smoothly! Below is my teacher desk AND my small group table! Although I try not to be sitting here unless I'm teaching in small group, I wanted everything to be all in one place! Last year I had my desk on one wall and the table on the other and it was just a hot mess. So over the summer I politely emailed the maintenance men to see if they coul
I had planned on writing this post wayyyy back in August before school even started; however, life takes over and that never happened! Her...
Free, fun and useful Kindergarten - 1st Grade, Common Core aligned lesson plans, math games, calendars, behavior charts, materials and more!
Okay, so I feel as though I have not had much of a life the past week. I have been working and working on my classroom and still feel as tho...
Okay, so I feel as though I have not had much of a life the past week. I have been working and working on my classroom and still feel as tho...
Okay, so I feel as though I have not had much of a life the past week. I have been working and working on my classroom and still feel as tho...
Classroom Reveal!! Ahhh! So better late than never right? I have yet to post my classroom pictures. It has taken me awhile to make changes to the class and get used to what I see everyday. If I didn't like something, I would change it and move it around. Soo without further a dew… here it is! This is my favorite part of the room. My desk area. I love it because it's full of bright colors and visuals for the students to be aware of . I love the quotes posters I have all over my room. The students are filled with guidance and rules and they don't even know it. =) I have the rules behind my desk because there are many times a year where I have the students sit in the reading corner (pics below) and we just sit and talk about the rules of the classroom and why it's important to follow them. It's only necessary to have the clip chart next to the rules so the students are reminded of what they are expected to follow in the room and school. I got this awesome clip chart from Learning in Wonderland. It's the perfect color. Next is my reading corner! This is another one of my fave's! I changed the rug this year. Added bright purple crates (my favorite colors) and fun, cute and cozy pillows. Can you tell my favorite colors are pink and purple? LOL I am seriously all about the brights this year. Bright colors are what you see walking in my room. My phone has recently deleted all my apps. So my pictures look kind of dull and not bright. But this is how my room looks from one angle. I think it's perfect the way I used the same borders for each section. Saved me tons of time of thinking which border goes best where. I love the colors and the way it turned out. There are where my center backers go. I am able to fit so much. I usually fit another pencil basket in there along with dry erase markers and crayons. Everything fits so perfect. These baskets are so useful. I even have another set by my side and put daily work in them. You can see them here. These are how I use my other baskets for my side of the room. Every Thursday I print out all the work I need for the following week. I organize/separate them into different categories: centers, tests, lal and math. They go into these baskets and I pull them when I need them. It's been working for me for years now and I love the way it looks. =) Have you noticed I have a title for each bulletin? I love these. I grabbed these last year from The Animated Teacher. They are editable so you can make whatever you want. I laminated them and reused them again this year. Love the bright colors. Goes great in my room. Again… sorry for the dullness in picture! I really need a good app to brighten these pics. Jeez! Anywho as you can see the other side of my bulletin and baskets. Another round of baskets. I plan on putting center things in them. Like markers!! I have so many markers. It makes me so happy. We run through these like water. I was able to put these on my supply list this year and so happy I did. Everyone brought them in!! My objectives boar is very important to me. It's mostly for me and administration, but they love coming in here and checking it out to see what we are up to for the week. It's bright and is right to the point. Very easy to understand which is my kind of thing! It doesn't hurt that the colors are cute either. This set of objectives was a combo from Crockett's Classroom and Learning in Wonderland Now for my board on the other side of my room, I have fabric! It's the same fabric as last year. No bubbles or looking funky towards the end of the year. It last amazing and as you can see I'm using it again this year. On this side of the room, I am using black bulletin board paper. Well I ran out of fabric paper last year and then got lazy to go back and get some more. So for now we have black. And I don't mind it. I love the crisp look it leaves. With the bright colors, it makes it stand out more and just so much more inviting! Finally, this is my aide's desk. Some people think she's the teacher when they come in b/c her desk is so much bigger and nicer than mine! LOL I like to jazz up her desk as well with fun quote's posters I got home. The book bins are one of my newest additions to the classroom this year. I got them from Really Good Stuff. They have a new selection filled with tons of bright colored things. Phew! Thank goodness that's done. I've been working on some things lately and excited to have them out soon!! Happy Sunday.
I had planned on writing this post wayyyy back in August before school even started; however, life takes over and that never happened! Her...
Free, fun and useful Kindergarten - 1st Grade, Common Core aligned lesson plans, math games, calendars, behavior charts, materials and more!
We are heading into the fourth week of school and I finally had a moment to write my classroom reveal post for this year. If you read my reveal post from last year, you will recognize most of what you are about to see.
We are heading into the fourth week of school and I finally had a moment to write my classroom reveal post for this year. If you read my reveal post from last year, you will recognize most of what you
Seriously. Took me FOREVER to finish my classroom. And if I went back tomorrow, I could still find something to work on. Let's go on a little tour, shall we? WARNING: Picture overload! Welcome to my classroom! This was the inspiration for the name of my blog :) Here is the mailbox area, paper storage, and where kids turn in their homework. Horse shoe table with all of my guided reading and running records supplies close at hand. File cabinets. I store copies above. I also am putting the big pillows over here this year. I love how they're out of the way! This will be the Word Work table. My birthday board is above, and in the space where the phone should be (I need to find a smaller cord so I can attach it back to the wall...), I will hang my Parts of Speech posters once I teach them. The big hippos supervise from above the wardrobe cabinet :) I have one student computer in my classroom for kiddos who need a little more supervision. There are 25 others in the break out, right outside my classroom. Cafe Board, more pillow storage, clipboards, and vocab binders. Word Wall, work tables, job chart, and an open space for the Morning Message Carpet area. I LOVE my "Big Brown Chair." Got it at Good Will for $10 (my mom talked them down LOL). I love how low it is to the ground. I feel like I'm still at the kiddos' level, even though I'm sitting in a chair. It can be a little tricky to get out of though... Calendar and Morning Meeting area Leveled book bins. Notice the empty shelves. This is where I store students' Book Boxes for Read to Self. Where are the book boxes, you ask? I have no clue!! I ordered new ones with school money, but the order never came! I'm kind of freaking out!! Books arranged by genre, topic, theme, series... This is also where most of my hippo collection resides. I was working on new hippo book basket labels for an hour and then Word totally froze up and I lost it all :( I'll get back on that when I stop feeling sorry for myself. My new bookshelf, argyled of course! This shelf has mostly chapter book series. Sink and pencil sharpening area. My mom made the curtain for me 8 years ago, which hides all the tissue boxes and plastic storage bags. I want to find some hippo fabric and redo it. My desk. I am a firm believer in not having a huge desk area. More space for the kiddos. I got rid of my huge teacher desk 4 years ago because it was just a dumping ground for me. My hippo figurines on my desk :) Math manipulative storage in the bins, extra coloring supplies, scissors, glue, whiteboards on top. This table is used mostly during writing time for kids to have peer conferences. This cart has student paper in it... writing paper, recycled paper for drawings, graphic organizers for writer's workshop, spelling test/pretest papers... On top is where students turn in their work. They sort it for me, which I LOVE! SMARTBoard.... squeee!!!!! Front board, all ready for Tuesday! Normally I list goals for each subject area, but it will be a day or two until that since we'll be establishing routines for most of the first week. You probably noticed that the walls are very bare. That's because I like to hang up anchor charts once we've learned about the topic/skill. I learned that trick from going to a Sisters workshop a few years ago. I find it's more meaningful when you create it together and then hang it up. Ready or not, here they come! GAME ON! Check out Swimming into Second for more classroom inspiration!
Okay, so I feel as though I have not had much of a life the past week. I have been working and working on my classroom and still feel as tho...
It's a girl! My sweet teacher bestie, Mrs. Le, is expecting and today we did a gender reveal with our students. They were so excited! When the students came in for the day, I had them complete a couple pieces of morning work. First, they had to write down one piece of advice for the
I had planned on writing this post wayyyy back in August before school even started; however, life takes over and that never happened! Her...
I had planned on writing this post wayyyy back in August before school even started; however, life takes over and that never happened! Her...
It’s FINALLY finished and it feels fabulous! Tons of black + brights = one HAPPY classroom! It’s been three long years since I’ve redecorated my classroom or even changed my theme, and I’d truly forgotten how fun (and exhausting) it can be. I moved classrooms, so it was the perfect time to clean out, purge, reorganize...
I had planned on writing this post wayyyy back in August before school even started; however, life takes over and that never happened! Her...
Free, fun and useful Kindergarten - 1st Grade, Common Core aligned lesson plans, math games, calendars, behavior charts, materials and more!
