New look, New year!

I have been patiently waiting to show you my classroom pictures when my blog face lift was complete! Thank you Kerri from Cutest Blog on the Block for the makeover. My blog needed a little 'blogger botox' to perk her up, and I think we definitely accomplished the "fresh" new look!

So without further ado... Welcome to my room!

This year I decided to change it up in my classroom. I was over the neon and Rockstar theme and needed a change. My goal was to go for a more preppy nautical look this year! With a few details missing, I like how it turned out! And I apologize in advance that some of the pictures are blurry, it took me a while to get a hang of the new camera.

Classroom Hand signals:

Student Mailboxes:

Read to Self Book Bins:

Word Wall:

AR Quiz Line and Math Tubs:

Classroom Library:

Writing Work Station:

 

Pocket Chart Station (which is missing a lot):

Student desks:

Listening Station:

Poetry Station (ignore the poems, I just hung something up for the picture):

My small group/ desk area:

 

  

Student Work Board:

 

Behavior chart, rules, and portable work stations for literacy (which after looking at this picture I realized I hated how it looked and needed to make changes):

 

 

So glad this blog post is finally up! Now hopefully I can start posting more often! 

Cheers to the start of a new school year! 

Silly Sentences and Classroom Updates

Maybe when I said guilty pleasure I should have wrote guilty in BIG BOLD letters. None of you ladies got it… which makes it even worse ha! It was the Real Housewives… of pretty much any area. I am sadly addicted to it? I do not know why because I feel either embarrassed or annoyed by their actions… yet I am so entertained! 

Anyways, since none of you girls could guess the correct TV show I just used the Random Number Generator! 

Congratulations Caroline Brantley! I will be emailing you shortly with your goods! 

Here is a little preview of what you will be getting with the Silly Sentences Packet: 

*I created two different printables: one can be printed on colored card stock using black ink and the other on white card stock using colored ink*

 If you would like to check it out on TPT and read more about the details  click here.

Here is something other things that have happened in my lil' teaching world lately…

Ms. Thomas and I at our schools cancer walk to support finding a cure for breast cancer… yes those are my walking clothes. 

Last week we completed our unit on owls thanks to Mrs. Jump! Both the littles and I enjoyed learning about owls! This week we are moving on to pumpkins! 

*Please excuse how scary my owls look*

Below are pictures of my students Owl Books…

The Owl Poem...

Here is a student made book (goes along with the students learning about Owls being nocturnal). 

Apparently my lil sweetie gave her dog a sassy do. 

If you want any of the Owl Activities above head to Mrs. Jumps blog for her packet on TPT! 

Classroom Makeover Pictures

The before and after of my classroom makeover…

This was the first year I liked where EVERYTHING was in my room. I have such a problem with arranging my room in order for it to flow a certain way. I don't even know what that means, but I know when it flows, it doesn't bother me… which is all that matters right?

So, just as I am happy with how my room looks…. this happened.

Am I upset about getting an Activboard? Absolutely not. However, am I upset that I am a middle classroom with movable walls, which meant that my active board had to go on the side wall… yep. This meant that they had to move a large cabinet  and my classroom library. Tear.

Please look at the following pictures of my room a mess before, and then the after. The large cabinet had no where to go, therefore they just shoved it by the door? Gave me anxiety for two days. The rest of the furniture was  pushed to the walls of the room since I was UM TEACHING when they installed the board.

Here is the mess of furniture:

On to the before and after pictures….

Here was my library before (which I loved):

Library after:

Pocket Chart Station before:

Pocket Chart Station After… (examples of student's work from this workstation will go up on this board as well, which will be a great reference for others working at this station):

Close up of the I can list:

Objectives and Agenda before:

Objectives and Agenda before:

Main Stage before….

Main Stage After….

 I moved the area to be buy my new active board...

I also moved my small group areas as well: 

Now a week and a half later I am FINALLY getting back to normal. Cheers to that! Here are some more pictures I took today…

New Listening Station:

I Can List: 

New Word Wall which I am loving: 

New Math Focus Wall… is it busy? Yes. But it works SO well for us during our Calendar Math time. It is so easy to update everything as a whole group, then I have the students go back to their seats and fill out their Calendar Math Worksheet (from Cara's TPT Calendar Companion ): 

Hope you enjoyed my pictures… I finally feel back to normal in the classroom (even if the to do list is ever growing)!

Happy Wednesday!