2012-2013 Classroom Pictures!

Wow, first I apologize to all 500+ followers for being MIA! Life is really busy at the moment....we are in the process of building a house so that is consuming our lives at the moment! I do have some new and exciting tech ideas to share with your for the new school year, so follow along and stay tuned!

Good news this year! I moved back into the main building! I had been out in a portable classroom for the past 2 years, and while I loved the space, I hated being out there. So to celebrate, I decided to go with a brand new classroom theme -- SEUSS!!

Student tables and cubbies

Back wall with student computers, bulletin boards for student work, and Word wall.

Carpet area and library....and SMART Board! I really wanted the library to be the "heart" of the classroom.

View from the door

Carpet area looking back at the door

My desk area

Books are organized in baskets from Dollar Tree (online)

Another view of Smart board and my CAFE Menu will be to the right of it.

Word Work area for Daily 5

Student book tubs

One of the listening stations

Small group learning area...still need a few more seat cushions!

Read to Someone area

Happiness! I loved the way my room turned out!

I will post pictures of my completed door soon!

This and That in FIRST GRADE!

Hello blog friends! I'd first like to thank my many new followers --- please say hi and link to your blog, I'd love to give you a follow as well!

 The Daily 5 is up and running! My kiddos have built up to 12 minutes of Read To Self and Work on Writing. I'm so pleased with how everything is going. Here is a display of our anchor charts and CAFE Menu so far....

Here is a board I just put up --- Sticky Vowels! Thanks to The Teacher Wife for sharing! My kids LOVE this! If you would like to hear and view the song, go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJCmlB3Xk_U

For our Word Work part of the Daily 5, I bought a big oil drip pan from Walmart for $9.00. It's about 4 ft by 2ft. Great for using magnets to spell words! This idea was from Pinterest.

Hope you all have a great end to your work week and a fabulous LONG weekend!! :)

Welcome To Our Classroom! (Warning:Tons of Pics!)

Where did the time go??! Our first day with students is TOMORROW! I'm so excited to see my new group of firsties!

My room is all set and ready to go for the most part! Enjoy the tour! (click pictures to enlarge)

**NOTE: I have a portable classroom. So I basically have the space of 2 classrooms. LOVE the space, but hate hate HATE the paneling! I did what I could to cutesy it up!

 This is what you see when you walk in the door.

 These signs will change throughout the year, and greet students when they walk in the door. 

 Word Work center

 Focus boards

 My desk

 Birthday and job boards

 smart board and word wall

 daily schedule displayed on whiteboard, document reader, and teacher stool

 The crayon art I blogged about a few weeks ago. LOVE! Under that are the math tubs.

 This will be Work on Writing center. The empty bulletin board will have writing ideas on it eventually.

 This is what you see from the door in the second room of my classroom.

 Student art will hang on the colored rectangles in the back of the room.

 The poms I made.

 The tree inspired by Pinterest. 

 Student book boxes.

 Author study area....August author is David Shannon

 5 little monsters poem and hand puppets -- idea from Deanna Jump.

 Whole group area with classroom library. Shelf idea from Jessica Meacham. 

 Books, books, and more books!

 Student cubbies

cozy reading nook

 Daily 5 CAFE menu

 small group meeting area -- will finish the crate seats the weekend

 Students will make these to hang above their chair.

 This bulletin board will also include pictures of the students wearing sunglasses.

 FIRST DAY! TOMORROW!

Cute new cup made by a coworker