The photos begin in June, when I first stepped into my room, and will continue through last night. There is still more to do, but it has come a long way and I am starting to feel more and more ready!
The next couple pictures are the "first look" at my classroom:
The walls were white, the carpet was maroon, and things were piled throughout the room.
The next few pictures are during the painting process:
And, the room once the painting has been completed:
Then it is decided that my classroom needs new carpet, so everything gets removed and placed in the hallway, below you will see the room when it is completely empty, with the new carpet inside:
And... I get to start moving stuff back in, making it my own and organizing it all to be my classroom. Now you get to see the final product, and what I currently call my classroom:
And the details of my room, walking in the door, turning immediately to the right, and working your way around the room:
The word wall
The homework board
My desk, the students "star slip" pockets, our behavior clip-chart, and our schedule for each day on magnets so I can switch it up.
Behind my desk area to keep my teachers editions
My organizational systems for my lesson plans and copies each day. Each day has 6 color-coded folders with their subject names on them to keep the essential materials and lesson plans for the days given subject.
The bin where I will keep the students important information, papers, tests, etc to be sent home in their "Friday Folders"
A close up of our daily schedule, as well as the hanging shelves I put up!
Our reading nook!
A less closer look at our reading nook, you can see the bookshelves where I will be keeping our classroom library. On the far right you can see our computer table.
The writing center. In the two bins in those desks I will be keeping word work materials. On top is a bucket of journal prompts as well as a "daily five" pocket chart. Students will grab their station card, after all 4 are gone they have to choose a different station. The Sterelite drawers in the background hold my math manipulatives.
Our mailbox, morning station. You can see the homework bins, as well as the buckets which hold our morning meeting and morning greeting activities. Above them is our jobs chart.
A closer look at our homework and morning station. The clipboard is where students check in for hot or cold lunch and indicate if they are going to have milk with their snack.
Our calendar, which hangs next to the homework station.
The front white board. Underneath are the 6+1 Traits of writing signs, along the left side are our learning target display boards.
A closer look at the learning target boards
A head-on shot of the front display. On the far right side is our "marble jar" and "voices level"
And that's a wrap! I realized that I'm missing the details outside the room- so I'll have to give a hallway tour sometime next week. Maybe I'll do a little bit more thorough tour of how I'm going to organize all my materials and lessons as well!
Thanks for checking out our classroom! I'm excited for what the year is going to bring in this newly transformed space, and excited to share the happenings as they occur!
What a colorful and well organized classroom ~the students will be fortunate to be in your classroom! If I still had my children in elementary school, I certainly would be thrilled you were their teacher!
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