Classroom Tour 2013-2014

Welcome to another school year! My new kinders have already been in school for 3 whole weeks. I decided to post pictures of my classroom to give ideas and insight into my OCDness when it comes to my classroom. I am a super organized person and expect my classroom to be as well. I have high expectations of my students and expect them to help keep the room organized and clean, so that it is functional to all that use it. This is especially important this year as I have the medically fragile students this year (two of which are highly allergic to a lot of things), so we disinfect multiple times a day! Hopefully this will help keep the germs to a minimum this year ;) All of the posters and things on my wall are all posted in my TPT store. I have to have everything matching, so it is just easier to create them myself.


Studen coat hooks.  The book boxes hold my books that I use for read-a-loud and also the seasonal books that I change out in my library.  The Sterilite containers hold files and station materials by month.  You can also see my FOSS science boxes and some of my snack storage.



General view from the middle of my room.  The colorful boxes are for the browing box station.  The empty slots in the shelves are their cubbies.  The cabinets to the right hold my reading, math, fine motor, and sensory supplies.  The letter circles on the bulletin board is the start to my word wall.



General look from the front left of my room.  Ignore my messy desk.  The small table is my writing station.



General view looking from the back left of my classroom by my recess door.



Pink tubs are math stations.  Green tubs are literacy stations.  The green baskets on top are for homework folders and class books.



Guided reading area.  The shelf to the left holds the blocks for math stations.  The shelf to the right holds all of my literacy and math station materials for the week.  Pink tubs are for math and green are for reading.  The tubs on top of the AC unit are for the materials that I use with each guided reading group.



Computer and listening stations

  


This is my reading/whole group area.  To the left are my puzzles that are used during math stations and the bookshelves hold my classroom library books.

 


The shelf with the sheet covers all of my classroom supplies ( Kleenex, wipes, paper, pencils, crayons, etc).  The baskets that aren't covered hold things we use often (dry erase markers, glue, and watercolors).  The rolling book cart in the middle holds all of my guided read books that go with our Lead 21 curriculum.  The cabinets with the birthdays on the back wall hold my art supplies and paper goods.

 I share 1/4 of my classroom with a self-contained special education room for our high needs kinders. That is what the big supply shelf and the dividers are separating. It is super helpful have SPED staff just on the other side of the room. Thanks for visiting.

Polka Dot Classroom Decor

It has been too long!!!  The birth of my son has been wonderful and has made my life vey busy, therefore, my blog has not seen any action.  But the time has come to change that!  I am going to try very hard to blog at least twice a week the happenings in my new kindergarten classroom.

As a teacher, one of the greatest sights is seeing things that I have created being printed, cut out, and laminated!  It is one of my obsessions.  Everything that I want to keep or have the kids use gets laminated.  Our laminator at school is very temperamental, so on the advice of one of my co-workers, I purchased my own and it has been WONDERFUL!  It actually laminates things a little thicker than the one at school, which makes flash cards and other things sturdier.  Here is a picture of the laminator that I purchased, along with the box of laminating film. The laminator was bought at Wal-Mart for under $30 and the pouches I got at Sam's Club for $20 .  Wal-Mart sells a 50 pack of these for $10, but since we have a Sam's Club membership it is more economical to get them there.

Here are some of the products that I have created this summer that coordinate with my Bright Polka Dot classroom décor.  I am a little OCD when it comes to school décor and like all of my things to match, so I started making my own things.  You can get any of my products by clicking on the pictures, which will take you to my TPT store.  I will post pictures this week of these things hanging up in my classroom, with my classroom tour once I can get back into my room this week.

These are color word posters for my kinders to learn their color words.  I chose not to put these on the polka dot backgrounds, in order to not confuse them.

These are number cards from 1-20 that I also hang up in my room.  There is pictorial representation using 10 Frames.



These are the cards that I use for my literacy station rotations.  I print off two sets of these, as the
students go to two stations a day.




I use these numbers to label my student cubbies.  You could use these for numerous things though...and since you made it to this post they are FREE!!!!

 

These are my alphabet posters which I will put on the table side of my room to help with ABC order, letter sound association, and spelling.



Be sure to check back next week to see these products in action in my classroom!