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Showing posts with label Classroom Library. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Classroom Library. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Classroom Digs {Classroom Tour}





Come check out my classroom digs! This is a "soft opening" and a totally work in progress. It will all be done on Thursday morning for Meet the Teacher but is not done just yet. Take a little peek inside my classroom.


My home away from home my school.

Enter into my classroom.


Take a look to the left and you'll see my guided reading/math area.


My transportation and clip chart on my teacher cabinet. 

My new "Hall of Fame" ribbon, guided reading books, beanie baby strategy board, and printer cart.

Another view of my beanie baby strategy board. The other board is my word wall and below is my listening center.

A different view of the area and the door.

My welcome board with my little birdies! I can't wait to get my class list! This is my word work cart and math center games cart. I put the math games I want them to play in the green basket.

This just shows part of our schedule...the most important parts lunch and specials.

The door leads into our one stall bathroom. On the door I have  birthday chart and tooth chart. On the back cabinet I have my lunch count, reading log chart, homework club, and job chart. This is also my unfinished writing area. I'm waiting on my table to get finished painting. My friend was super sweet to paint it for me.

To the right of the front door. These cabinets hold many classroom supplies like tissues, soap, paper, math materials, markers, ziploc baggies, etc. I brighten the top cabinets with some green poms and polka dots.
This is a close up of my crate seats and my guided reading/math table that is also my teacher desk.


View from my front door looking in.

View of my Smart Board and front area.





Beautiful frames that hold my students work and my turn in baskets. I have one for reading and math homework, work for today, and a general turn in work basket.

Up close of the cabinets.

My class library. The books are labeled my genre and by level.

Our cozy little area to read. 

Our cubby area where students hang their backpacks and put their lunch boxes away. The red book boxes are all nonfiction leveled readers. The blue are my students book boxes.

Close up of my numbered cubbies. They put their backpack on their number hook and their lunch box in that cubby. They share cubbies because two lunch boxes easily fit.

Our table baskets and table supplies. I have their books on their desks so they can browse through them at Meet the Teacher. The bags are their treats to get them excited about school.

This board has our sight words, Daily 5 rotation board, rug rules, and daily schedule.

Our reading easel and rocking chair. Another favorite spot in our room to read.

Our little math area. The pocket chart is the our math rotations board. Then the calendar is underneath. The large red thing is something that came with our math series. It's called a grab and go math center. It holds books and games that go with each unit.

This is my area for organization. I have some of my personal things and gifts from over the year. This is right next to my computer.

This is my teacher computer, phone, and personal little space.


These are student computers located right next to mine.

Hope you've enjoyed the tour! Check back for updates and the grand opening of my classroom! 




Thursday, January 12, 2012

Thankful on Thursday

I'm so thankful this Thursday because my Donors Choose project materials came in today! A non fiction leveled classroom library!  Somehow I must have had an instinctive feeling they were coming today because I took my phone charger to work which I never do. The materials were scheduled to come in next week so I'm pumped they came early. I got a phone call during our literacy centers and I usually never answer because I'm busy hello please don't call! No seriously though they (by meaning the front office staff) could e-mail or intercom me if it's that important...I hope all teachers feel this way and I'm just not the mean one. I digress I got a phone call which I actually answered saying that 4 large packages had arrived from Lakeshore for me!!! (YEAH!!!!!) I had to tell my kids because they were obviously listening in and asked what I was so excited about which got them super excited. So I picked up the boxes during lunch and since our room is close to the cafeteria and the office my kids saw all the packages and starting squealing, clapping, and trying to get out of there seats during lunch. This may or may not be why the lights had to be turned off a few minutes later to get the kids at a normal volume. (oops) I couldn't believe how excited they were about the books. I waited until our special area time to even start opening them so I had time to go through the materials. After specials the kids were happy to see them out of the box and wanted to know when they could start reading them. Ahh I love first graders! I told them they would have to wait until tomorrow morning. After school I organized the book boxes and place them against the back wall with the rest of my books. I don't have a shelf or anything for them yet and I'm still considering moving them to underneath my whiteboard. 

The non-fiction level library! I'm still waiting on two levels but this is it for right now! PS I know I totally need to do something with the wall space above but I just don't know what to do. It's very hard to get anything to stay to concrete walls. So for right now I just slapped up some anchor charts as reminders of how to choose books and what to do in read to self and buddy reading. 

BOOKS!!

The new way the library looks! (for now)

The back wall of my classroom. 

Hope you had a wonderful Thursday that you are thankful for! THANK YOU Donors Choose for this awesome opportunity,  thank you Lakeshore for the materials, but most of all THANKS to my fabulous donors who include my family, friends, co-workers, and other bloggers!


Sunday, December 4, 2011

Second Week of December Must Reads


This weeks December Must Reads are focused around Holidays around the world! 

Christmas: 





Hanukkah: 




Kwanza: 

             


Diwali: 


         






Chinese New Year: 

                                            


Hope y'all enjoy this weeks book list! I have a Holidays Around the World unit that should be out sometime this week that goes along with all of these must reads! Hope you have a wonderful and blessed week! 





Wednesday, November 30, 2011

First Week of December Must Reads!

HO HO HO!
Did you know?
These are some great books
That you should show! 
To fill your students minds
With thoughts of holiday times!

Here is a list of my must reads for the first week of December with my students! There are just so many holiday books I thought I would share them during each week leading up to Christmas. Enjoy! 


Gingerbread Books: 


I love to read a few gingerbread stories to compare and contrast them and see which one is the students favorite.


If you haven't read about the smarter, sweeter gingerbread girl who leaps and twirls I highly recommend you get this book! It is always a class favorite with boys and girls because of the twist at the end!



This little baby is too adorable and it is so fun to build gingerbread houses after reading this book! 

The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School

A new favorite that our librarian read to my class this week! 


Happy Reading! 


P.S. I thinking about reading the Hunger Games...is it too much of a teen novel or is it for all ages? I would love to know and hear your feedback about the books!