Good morning! :) One of the most important things to me is how you arrange your classroom. I always think about a few things when considering how to arrange my classroom... -Can my students all see the SMARTboard from their desks without having to turn around? -Can my students access all of our classroom materials without having to move something? -Can my students scoot out their chair without bumping into a desk or another chair? -Can I move around the classroom with ease? (Without having to squeeze through desks?) -Can I see ALL of my students from my desk? -Can I see ALL of my students from the meeting table? Sometimes I have to arrange the room, and then tweak it a little to make sure all of the above questions are answered YES. I've had my desks arranged in many different ways during the years. However, my favorite arrangement was when I had tables. I would take tables any day over desks! Tables facilitate cooperative group work and give the students so much more work space. However, tables are not always available to you. So, in that case, I would arrange my desks like tables. When I taught specials classes and had mostly small groups of kids at one time (between 6-10 kids most of the day), I had my classroom set up with my meeting table in the middle. I liked it being in the center of the class. It was more like the central meeting place instead of stuck in a corner. This is what my room looked like: If you want to see some examples of my classroom seating arrangement, you can see one of my previous posts about how to set up your classroom. Here is a screenshot from a PDF file I found about classroom seating arrangements from Effective Room Arrangement by Carolyn Evertson, Ph.D. & Inge Poole, Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University. http://iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/case_studies/ICS-001.pdf I love several of these arrangements... especially the one in the middle on the right. Except I would probably face my student's desks towards the SMARTboard and not my desk. I don't teach from my desk, therefore I wouldn't want their desks to be pointing toward mine :). Check out the link to the PDF above for lots of great information (and bigger pictures). I also found this awesome site: Classroom Desk Arrangement. You can choose your class size, then it has several different arrangements you can choose from. It looks pretty cool... here is a screen shot of the welcome page: This Pinterest Board has a lot of great classroom ideas! :) http://pinterest.com/luv2teach/classroom-layout-and-design/. Scholastic also has a pretty cool Classroom Set-Up tool. It allows you to create your classroom layout and has all of the shapes already made. You just "draw" it on the screen... pretty cool! The only thing I don't like is that you can't turn any of the desks at an angle. I kind of do my own version of this each year by drawing my classroom on a Microsoft Word document. This way I can save it, re-arrange it and re-use it all year long. The last website I will tell you about is Classroom Architect. It is a pretty neat website. It lets you choose your room's dimensions, and then lets you drop and drag all of the furniture into the classroom. It is pretty easy to use and looks nice when finished. Here is a screenshot of what it looks like: Below is a link to a basic classroom seating chart that I created on PowerPoint. If you don't have PowerPoint but have a Google Account and access to Google Docs, you should be able to manipulate it there as well. Save the file, then re-arrange the desks and furniture by just clicking and dragging! :) Grab the green dot at the top of each item. This will allow you to rotate the item you've chosen. Delete items not needed and save your new template! :) UPDATE: 9/13/17 I've created more versions of the seating chart below that are still fully editable, and have put them on my Teachers Pay Teachers Site. Please click the link below for the FREE download! Link: FREE Seating Chart Well, I hope that these websites and information has helped give you some ideas on how to arrange your classroom! Be inspired & have a wonderful day! :) That's all she wrote, ------------------------------------- P.S. Did you know that I started my own company, Camp Partridge? ⛺️ Camp Partridge offers online camps for children and teens ages 10-16 who want to be digital creators and authors! ⛺️ Camp Partridge offers online courses for parents struggling with remote learning. ⛺️ Camp Partridge offers resources for your classroom! I would be honored if you would share Camp Partridge with people you know who need or would enjoy our camps and courses! 🧡

Do any of you use Kagan strategies in your room?? It's all about cooperative learning - team work and partners and building a classroom family, if you will. One of my favorite things that I took away from Kagan is the desk assignments... He makes a mat, but I found the mat to be just in the way and got beat up...so I made little labels that I tape to the desks. I used to have desk pockets taped to all the desks.... (The desk pockets are part of my classroom decor packs! This one is in the Blue & Green Chevron pack) Inside their desk pocket is their behavior card (which is blank because school had not started yet. But you can read about how I do my behavior cards at THIS post. But WAIT until after you read the rest of this post before leaving...or make sure you come back! lol). I also put in their team job cards into the pocket. I copy off each team onto a different color. I have up to 5 jobs per team, but I try to only have 4 people to a group (it's a Kagan training reason), so I usually don't use the materials job and just have my team leaders do that one. Some of the ideas are from the Kagan strategies - what they say to use for jobs, but I changed a few to "match" my room better. If you want them, click the pick below to snag them for free. But now, at this school, we all have to use the clip chart dealy-bob...so I have the personal ones from Rachel...which you see sticking up behind my name tags. By the way, I made those name tags and you can download them for FREE in {THIS} post! So now I don't really need the pockets on my desk anymore, because I can just make all my 1s the Team Leader for the day/week and all my 2s for Material people for the day/week. I have the labels taped to the desks, going around so that they go in a circle.... here's a better "bird's eye view" of what I mean. Now, with Kagan, your supposed to have groups of 4. And in my perfect world, I would LOVE to have only 16 kids for the WHOLE. ENTIRE. YEAR. 4 groups of 4. An even number. Be still my heart. But, alas, that doesn't always happen... So this is what we do when we have odd numbers...or can't make another group of 4. The A and B on the labels is for partner working.... the shoulder partner and face partner will always be opposite, one will always be A and one will always be B. So when you are working together on something, you can say "Partner A will start and then partner B," or vice versa. I like to mix it up. The C people!? Well, hopefully, you have 2 C people and they can then always partner up. If not, no worries! Because you KNOW you always have someone absent...so my 1 C person is my floater. They don't mind. They like it. They get to move around. And they love that! The training that we had said that they would rather us have 2 groups of 3, than a group of 6, because a group of 6 is too many for small group cooperation. I get it. I like it. So I decided instead of using the square mat, I made my own cute little labels to go on their desks. And I made them in group colors, so I can call the "red" group down to the floor, and then the "blue" group. I don't have remember who is in it. I don't need to remember who is team captain either because I can just say "1s, please come get the papers" or "3s, please go the get the offices." It's brilliant. I don't need to remember who is where, and I like it that way!

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Use these pictures and ideas to create and use these awesome Classroom Management Anchor Charts. Teach rules and procedures for all classroom supplies.

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This packet includes a single page displaying three paychecks and a second sheet displaying four deposit/withdrawal slips. I use these in conjunction with my other classroom economy items. Students fill out deposit/withdrawal slips at the end of the month to put their classroom money into the bank...

Sweet, sweet release.

The set has 36 pages of animal-themed worksheets, 24 black and white task cards and answer keys for students to practice Double digit addition WITHOUT regrouping. Sheets are neatly formatted. Use for morning work, independent practice, assessment, or homework. *This packet also includes a Google Slide Version of 16 worksheets and task cards. Contents: Solve and write the answer: 10 worksheets, 10 with answers Write the numbers in boxes and add them: 3 worksheets Use the number of animals to solve each problem: 2 worksheets Solve and color the correct answer: 2 worksheets Cut and paste: 3 worksheets 24 task cards (Answer key and recording sheet are included for task cards.) This packet is included in my ANIMAL-THEME BUNDLE. GOOGLE SLIDE PACKETS: 2-Digit Addition Without Regrouping Google Slides 2-Digit Subtraction Without Regrouping Google Slides 2-Digit Addition With Regrouping Google Slides 2-Digit Subtraction With Regrouping Google Slides 3-Digit Addition With Regrouping Google Slides 3-Digit Subtraction With Regrouping Google Slides 4-Digit Addition With Regrouping Google Slides 4-Digit Subtraction With Regrouping Google Slides ALSO AVAILABLE: 2-DIGIT ADDITION WITHOUT REGROUPING BOOM CARDS Kids-Theme Addition and Subtraction Worksheets Fall-Theme Addition and Subtraction Worksheets Links to individual Kids-Theme Packets Kids-Theme: 2 Digit Addition NO Regrouping Kids-Theme: 2 Digit Subtraction NO Regrouping Kids-Theme: 2 Digit Addition With Regrouping Kids-Theme: 2 Digit Subtraction With Regrouping Links to individual Fall-Theme Packets Fall-Theme 2 Digit Addition NO Regrouping Fall-Theme 2 Digit Subtraction NO Regrouping Fall-Theme 2 Digit Addition With Regrouping Fall-Theme 2 Digit Subtraction With Regrouping More Related Products: 3 Digit Addition Without Regrouping Worksheets 3 Digit Addition With Regrouping Worksheets 4-Digit Addition With Regrouping Worksheets 4-Digit Subtraction With Regrouping Worksheets Also Check: Counting Money Worksheets Place Value Packet 2 Number Line Addition and Subtraction Skip Counting Cut and Paste Worksheets Fraction Worksheets

Have a chatty class? Do your talkative students get louder and louder during small groups until it feels like chaos? Do they talk when you'r...

I wanted to make something nicer than a simple tabletop with legs for my son. For this desk project, I decided to go with a NASA theme.

You are the host and your students are the contestants in your very own game show, Super Mega Spin!! An interactive probability spinner game which engages students and allows them to see a game of chance first hand. Works best as a whole class activity on a Smartboard or projector. Simply enter your students' names. Click begin. Get your microphone ready (a whiteboard marker works well). Call "COME ON DOWN!!" Have fun. A simple worksheet is included. Note: There are some bugs that I know about such as an issue with draws for second place and the different contestant button may need to be pushed multiple times. I am working on these and will update when I can.

Back to School Tips including seating arrangements, teacher must haves, and what I wish I knew from the begining of my teaching career.

This qualifies as art.