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When you first walk in to my room, you will see our behavior chart and our transportation chart. I chose this for transportation because there are always a lot of adults in and out of my room, and I like to be able to see where everyone is going at a glance.
This is our “business center”, if you will. The kids come in and take care of business in the morning. They drop off their folders in the blue basket, choose their lunch and sign their name. My lunch count pictures stop me from having to repeat what the lunch choices are a million different times! They are stuck on with velcro and I have pictures for every choice of lunch that my school offers so I can change them each day. This was a wonderful resource from my friend Teresa. Have you been to a frozen yogurt place with those great sturdy spoons? I save them and use them as the name sticks for our lunch count. They are durable and cute! My classroom jobs are also displayed here and I change those weekly. Next to my student mailboxes I store construction paper by color for quick access and easy organizing.
My birthday wall is one of my favorite parts of my classroom! I got the gift bags at Target for .69 cents each, and then I used this birthday set from Erica Bohrer. Since I have a small class, we also include our principal, secretaries, custodian and nurse on our birthday wall so we don’t forget about the special people that help us each day!
At the end of this countertop is my “shrine” to Dr. Seuss because I have such a special place in my heart for him. The Lorax has always been my favorite children’s book. I made these truffula trees out of pom pom flowers. Some of my happiest childhood memories are my dad reading me Dr. Seuss books! The small trash can will be used for a word family of the week. The kids will put a word in to the trash can if it belongs in the word family and then I will draw them out like tickets each week to pick a winner. This will begin when I begin teaching word families later in the year.
The next stop is that back wall below the windows. On the bottom shelves I have all of my supplies in bins. These are supplies and materials that we use frequently.
Behind my guided reading horseshoe table is all of the materials I use with my kiddos during direct instruction and centers. This STAR crate is the home to all of my data collection and student information. You can read all about how I collect and organize my data in this post that I wrote for A Special Sparkle.
Next to my skill baskets is my sub tub which holds materials for substitutes. Next to that is my drawers full of daily materials and things for centers.
This corner of the room tends to get a little disastrous, especially by Friday! Please excuse the piles of stuff everywhere!!
Wow, impressive! I will be interested in reading the end of year review of what things you did that you can't live without & things you may remove or add. Your aides & parents must love your organizational skills. What a delight it must be to help out in your class! Your classroom says "Let's enjoy learning and discovering!". Great job Miss Eager!
Hi Sarah!
Love your classroom….love how open, bright, and cheery it is. Wishing you a wonderful new school year!! So happy you have a classroom to call your own!!
Hi Sarah! I love how you organized your classroom. So cute and well organized. Thanks for sharing!
Jacqui @ Resource Room Rules
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your room! 🙂
Maria
Love your classroom!! So cute!!! I want to post pictures soon too (I just started my blog so I'm very late to the party! What grade do you teach?? I'm following you now 🙂
I am so jealous of your classroom decor!! Maybe you can stop in SC to help me organize mine!!
Thanks for sharing!
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Hello! Love your classroom. I was wondering do you still have those signs/labels as I love the colourful borders? I'm starting out as teacher just qualified!