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.

Here Goes!

Hello Everyone!

I want to start off by welcoming you to my very first blog and my very first blog post.  I will tell you a little bit about myself.  I just completed my 3rd year of teaching, one year of which was in a self-contained behavior Kindergarten classroom and the last two years were in at At-Risk Preschool classroom in the elementary school.  This next year I am moving to 1st grade....and I couldn't be more excited about it!!!!

I live in Topeka, Kansas with my wonderful husband and 3 Daschunds (Buster, Rocky, and Mason).  When I am not at school or doing school things I like to read for pleasure, go swimming and fishing, scrapbook, make cards, hang out with my BFF, play with my nephew (Graham-a-ham-ham), and organize :)  Here is us on our anniversary:

When it comes to school and my classroom, I am one of the most organized teachers that I know. I love for things to be in tubs and labeled for easy identification and location when I need it. I also love to have things out for the students to axcess, such as manipulatives and an extensive classroom library. I am a believer in making the students be accountable for the classroom as well, which is where the endless labels come into play for me. I label the tub and then the shelf where the tub goes, so that there is no confusion about where things should be put back.

As well as starting to blog, I have also just started a Teachers Pay Teachers store.  You can check out my 2 things I have made so far.  You can find my store by clicking here.Hopefully, there will be many more projects to come before going back to school at the end of July to start setting up my new classroom.  The past two years have been owl and frog themes and this year is POLKA DOTS (Thanks to Erica Bohrer's great packet I found on here blog and her TPT store).  You can find that here.

My goal with this blog is to share my ideas about education and organization and hopefully inspire other teachers.  I have loved finding blogs and getting great ideas, so I thought that I would share mine.  Thanks for visiting and I hope to have many more posts to come!