Tomorrow is the Big Day!

Tonight was open house and I had such a great experience meeting all of my wonderful students and their families! So needless to say my room is complete. I am so ready for tomorrow; I feel like a kid before their first day of school, too. Enjoy my room set up :) 

Walk of Fame. This is where our student of the month character traits will go. This is seen when you first walk in 

Right across from the Walk of Fame. The top middle pocket has post-it's in it so students can right down their bucket-filling compliments :) 

 

Class jobs 

My Focus Wall! The white paper is laminated and the vocabulary section is just a Target $1 pocket chart cut in half.

My whiteboard/ bravo board/ CHAMPS focus wall.

Schedule/ announcements/ student supply station

I love my computers this way! It fees up so much space and creates such a cute little nook. The shelving is for textbook and group work materials. Students will find their I'm Finished Folders here as we'll as their Reading Response Journals

Class Library/ shared reading 

Student created goals. 

Shared/morning meeting area 

My beloved library :$ 

Love it!! 

Student groups and book pockets are fabric textbook covers. 97 cents at Target!

Word Wall on my cabinets and the top of the cabinets is where I'll eventually display my anchor charts.

That's all folks! I am so pumped for tomorrow! It's getting ready for bed for me now. Goodnight

Bulletin Boards Are Going Up!

With pre-planning coming up next week, I wanted to get into my room to set up my bulletin boards. Lets face it, we all know everyone is going to be fighting for the bulletin paper and dye-cutter so I went in and got all of that out of the way! Here's my progress:

 

Math strategy wall. There are shelves to the left with manipulatives and you can't see it from here but the letters were cute on pop corn scrap paper.

Calendar, schedule, and announcement board at the front of the room. That border is from Party City. It's called party tape. 

The focus wall is where I'll put each objective for the day for all subjects. I still need to hang up my subjects which were cut on the popcorn paper as well.

A close up of another bulletin board that I used the Party tap as a border with. 

Team stations. This is where students will turn in work and gather assignments if they finish early. The popcorn containers are from the dollar store as well as the red baskets at the bottom. 

I still have all my labels and materials to organize but at least I finished a huge chunk of work today. It'll definitely save me the headache next week!

More pictures are still to come! 

Stressed to the Max!

So, I went into my classroom for the first time this summer and not only was it deathly humid and hot; but, it also looked like this:

A COMPLETE blank slate. Exciting-yes. Stressful-I can't even think about it. 

I was only there for about an hour and I got to setting up and unloading a few things: 

 

To keep my desk or not? That is the question. It's bulky. I never sit at it. And I have my own teacher station. This thing may take a trip to the storage closet this year!

That's only HALF the books I was handed down for guided reading!

I have to attach my labels and organize my books on the other shelf. My carpet for my classroom library is drying from being shampooed. 

And at last, I may have a commuter "nook" this year so I can free up wall space that the computers took up last year.

I have new teacher orientation next week so I won't be able to get into my room again... Wahh! The good news is I am getting a ton done on my computer at home. I'll post more about those projects later and of course more progression pictures of my room as well. 

Three more weeks.... Where has the time gone?!

Lights, Camera...ACTION!

Our school theme is Hollywood this year! I've been busy making little things here and there for my classroom that go with the theme (last year it was "Under the Sea") so I am basically starting from scratch in the decoration department...yikes!

Here are some library labels I created...

 

 

I also recently went to a CHAMPS training. I took the voice level idea and made it work into my theme as well...

And last but not least I made these really awesome Blooms Taxonomy cards for guided reading. I'm a newbie at reading this year so I've been obsessing over making sure I have as many resources as possible to make my life easier. Here they are...

 

 

Whelp that's all for me today! I went to party city and the Dollar Tree (uh-mazing teacher section for inexpensive goodies) for classroom decor. Pictures of my lovely room will be posted soon! 

~Miss Newman~ 

Happy Summer!

This is my very first post. Woohoo!

So it's my very first summer as a teacher and I really should be enjoying myself, right? WRONG! I cannot get my mind off my classroom and the new theme for our school... HOLLYWOOD! Get ready for some AMAZING pictures coming your way very soon.

Enjoy the summer! And I'll try to enjoy mine....

-Miss Newman