I literally CANNOT believe that school is starting in two days... I know that many of you all have started back within the past few weeks, but I am finally ready for my kiddos to come on Tuesday. Of course, there are a few areas in my room that I want to spruce up.... our Have you Filled a Bucket Today? board and our story writing center, but I'll post about those things in the future.
For now, here's a peek into my classroom!
The view from the hallway... On the bright side, our fabulous janitor painted over a parrot mural that wrapped around my door frame. I plan to put a mini-bulletin board display above the door, but again, that's a project for another day!
My guided reading/ small group table... set up with Open House goodies! Notice our class pet, the puma (we are the PUMAS).
Guided Reading Organization! The big crates hold my own personal guided reading book sets! the cart has lots of my math games and manipulatives!
THE CREATION STATION
Finally got this set up in my classroom! I've been posting about this for weeks and I'm excited to see it come together!
My mother-in-law covered these throw pillows for me! My students will pull out a pillow and grab a clip board at the writing center since it's not big enough for a small group to sit at the desk at the same time!
The baskets hold postcards, list-making activities, and word lists that the students can use at the center. On top of the desk, there is different paper for letter writing as well!
Grab my writing center paper and materials in a BUNDLE HERE or as separate items here: list-making, postcards, letter writing, and yearlong writing portfolio.
This cute little area on the floor is going to be my story writing center! If you notice the empty white shelf on the book shelf... that is where I will put materials for the kids to use! Still need some ideas for this area... Hope to get it up and rolling in October!
When I got my classroom, there were two of these "library" carts in it and I finally found a way to make them a little more functional for myself and my students. This year, I am using them to store our writing portfolios, math workbooks, and our "I'm Finished' basket for completed work.
Moving on to the classroom library/ whole group area...
Daily 5 book bins and my tubs that I use for math workshop!
My library is organized by topics and also by levels. When students choose books for their book bins, they chose out of these lettered bins. They also pick one "free choice" book out of any bin in the library.
Ordered these awesome new book tubs from Really Good Stuff this spring! Love them!
Recreated all of my labels this summer! So much more organized!
Our word wall... with the kids' names up... waiting for our sight words as the year begins!
The whiteboard at the front of the classroom! I use my projector right in that big open space!
Learning goals that are correlated to the First Grade Common Core from Crockett's Classroom.
Grab them -HERE-
New classroom schedule and I AM IN LOVE! Pick it up from Ladybug Teacher Files!
Andddd they are editable. Grab them -HERE-
The start of our Daily 5 board... I-Charts will go up here after the first week of school!
Our CAFE board... just waiting to be filled with reading strategies!
Our morning meeting board/calendar... will be adding organizational charts for word work and writing centers! A work in progress as we add more to our routines!
And there you have it folks! I still feel like I'm scrambling to get things ready for the first day! Can't wait to fill all our white space on the walls with kids' artwork and our anchor charts!!
Got some banana bread in the oven (can you say stress baking.....) and I'm ready to curl up with my glass of wine and watch Keeping up with the Kardashians... don't judge me please!!
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