About two and a half weeks until I report back to school. I've been into my classroom whenever I've been kid-free. Thank goodness for my hubby and my mom and mother-in-law.
Here are some pics of the progress I've made.
I made this word wall. Last year my word wall took up a whole bulletin board so this year I decided to combine my Saxon Phonics pictures with my word wall. My Saxon posters were getting pretty shabby so I made new ones. Same pictures just new images. I put them on these polka dot dessert plates. I think they are super cute!
On my other displays, I bought a rainbow chevron theme set. Very cute and a wide variety of things to use.
I'm not sure the dollar store ribbon I used is going to hold up but it's good for now.
On the writing one I will put up strategies as I teach them. The reading one I will put up Deanna Jump's animals that have reading strategies on them. Math is for calendar time as well as math terms we will learn. The proud pandas board is the magnet board. I'm going to display student work there. Each classroom has an animal theme. Mine is the pandas. I have always loved pandas! I decided to go with a black and white with some primary accents for my theme.
The shelf under the math board is for centers. The crates on the left are holding our morning meeting binders. I got ideas from Kim Adsit's Calander Notebook but made my own. We also do a poem each day which is also in the binder. Last year we kept the binders in our desks but I think this year we're going to keep them near the carpet.
Under these are metal shelves. The pocket charts and posters are hung with loose leaf rings and hide my junk pretty well. The blue and yellow one is for classroom jobs. The rainbow one I will put the phonics sound picture cards as we learn them. The black one is a lost tooth graph by month The red one is a who can tie your shoes board. The white one is a fiction vs. nonfiction T chart. The blue pocket chart is for center rotation. And finally on the end is a long 2 column chart. I had originally bought that for preschool for a question of the day but now I'm using it for reading levels of self-selected books.
This area is where my reading centers happen thus the pocket charts. The frog on the wall is my code toad. For each spelling list I made it in code so they can practice. I think I'm going to use a bucket shelf and use the spelling activities in it for early finishers and for extra time but I haven't gotten to know hat yet! My sons each have bucket shelves and I'm trying to decide which one to steal to take to school! My gecko, Charlie's cage is over there too because of the outlet. I sat the cage on an old piano bench that I painted black.
Before I went home, I wanted this counter cleaned off. I bought several new plants. Makes it look homey and replenishes our oxygen!
So it's ready for open house which is on the first day of institute--ugh! Under all those curtains I need to go through the shelves but I'm hoping for a little time between meetings during those 3 days. I told myself I'm not going back until the 12th. Still much to do for school at home though!
