My Classroom

Ok, here it is! My second home...

This year, I bought bookshelves for each of my tables.  So far, I love them!  We will see how they work tomorrow!  In these bookshelves I will store the "team" materials.  The kids will keep their math materials, crayons, scissors, etc, and will each have reading baskets where they will store their books and whisper phones.

This is looking at my room from the reading corner.

This is my reading corner/whole group area.  I just got a bigger rug, but don't have a picture of it yet.  We spend ALL of our time here.

This is still in my reading area.  I added BOGGLE this year, and I'm excited about the kids being able to choose to do this during word work.  You can also see my writing center...

 

This is my writing center.  I snagged this table for $5 this summer!  It reads "each day is a story". 

This is another table I painted a few years back.  This is my "thinking center".  I throw different activities in this center, like retelling stories, sequencing, etc.

This is part of my word work center.  These are actually two bookshelves put together.  They were really ugly and also the focus of my room last year, so I decided to spice them up!  I hot glued some fabric I had on there, added some cute flag border and bam!  The bookshelves are magnetic so the kiddos can make words on it.  LOVE!

I like to have carpet and lamps everywhere!!  It makes the room so much more homey!  Plus I love for the students to have different areas int he room where they can "buddy read" at the end of the day.  This is when they will need their whisper phones and book baskets that I mentioned above.

This is my new best friend! My rockin' behavior chart.  I got this guitar  idea from the inspired apple! 
I made fun little guitar picks with their names on it to move up and down the chart.  You can get these guitar picks for free at my TPT store HERE.  I can't wait to use this, this year!  I also made a packet of notes to send home that you can also check out HERE.

The front of my room/guided reading table. 

& lastly my awesome new milk crate seats I made.  I'm really excited about these.  I am going to have the kids store their guided reading books/materials in the drawers throughout the week.  That way I don't have to keep up with the books but can have them pull them out of their seat! :)

That's my room!  Hope everyone has a FABULOUS year!