Well it was a much better Sunday for us Dallas fans today!! I sure do love football Sundays. Now I am trying to wind down and switch my mindset from weekend mode and back into school mode :(
So some things have changed since I snapped these photos, but I wanted to share some of my classroom!
Darker, but here is my small group table. Behind me there are lots of resources for guided reading and some other fun stuff. Excuse the piles of folders and papers. This was before I handed out their guided reading folders.
Our back board where we create anchor charts together and post our Word of the Day! The smaller table is the Writing Station. That houses all of the materials they will need to work on writing activities.
This is day one! The kids had Phys. Ed. first thing, so they didn't even have a chance to unpack. When they returned, we started our morning routine over and pretended we just walked in. This way we still got our first day routine practice in :)
Love, love, love my magnet system that I wrote about in an earlier post. The cake pan hanging next to the door is where they post their magnets for using the bathroom - one at a time per gender.
This is where our History textbooks and resources are housed. Along with our community supplies and math manipulatives.
We are the RAMS and we call our 5th graders the RAMbassadors of the school. Here I have some quotes that help describe what qualities or traits a RAMbassador should have. I also have my "Helping Hands" job descriptions and hands that I flip everyday. This way 2 new students are my helpers each day. At the bottom I have my Love Bugs jar - this is where students take a strip of white paper and write positive comments about students or how someone made them feel (positive or negative). This way we can praise each other, but also address the negatives in an "anonymous" fashion.
Reading is Thinking! This is our CAFE board. The blue shape at the bottom is our dry erase "Word Collector" where students can add words from their independent reading.
I sure do cram a lot into this small amount of space, but this is our class library. My READ owls have already fallen down :( because I can't seem to make them stay up with tape. The baskets on top are the leveled readers from the Pearson Reading Street series.
