Heather's Classroom

A few posts back Juli showed off her classroom. I thought I would show off my room. I don't have an exact theme. I use the Furry Friends by Carson Dellosa.  I am not wild about it cause it does limit my ability to create items for my room.  I have tried to accent my room with black and bright colors.  This is the outside of my room where I hang up work:

This is the bulletin board between my classroom and my officemate's classroom. She thought of this and I thought it was really cute!

This is a view of my classroom library:

I have a Book Hospital that I found on Pinterest. I would love to credit whatever creative teacher created it but I just remember printing it off Pinterest. I created a Books To Be Shelved container where students can return their books before picking out new ones. Once they know the system I let responsible students put the books back in the correct bins.

This is a view of my calendar. I use the schedule flipped cards from Ladybug's Teacher Files. I just love her stuff. I plan on redoing it to use all the subjects she gives in that file.

This is the view of the front of my classroom. The flipped alphabet is from Ladybug's Teacher Files as well.

This is the board I use to manage my reading and math workshop rotations:

This is on my office door in the back of my room:

I found it on Pinterest of course and don't remember what smart teacher to credit with for creating it and pinning it so I could copy it for my own room. I have these sayings in my back wall that I think are cute and remind students (hopefully) to make good choices:

They are the same ones Juli has in her room. Her post will link you to that sight if you are interested in getting some of your own. Below that I have my station tubs that I use to organize all the materials needed for workshops.  I used a file from Ladybug's Teacher Files (of course) to label the bins.

I hope you find my room interesting! I have worked so hard on it and still have so much I want to do. My walls are pretty bare as they await the anchor charts the students I will be creating together.  We studied nouns this last week so I have one lonely little anchor chart up so far:

Hope everyone has a good week!

Juli's Classroom

Oh my goodness!  Have we ever been MIA or what?!  This school year started for us this week with kids and I have to admit that I have passed out every day this week after school with little to no thought of this blog!  I am worn out and I know that Heather is as well!  We haven't been slacking off, I assure you!  Instead we have been busily getting ready for the new batch of second grade babies that we get to call our own this school year.  Since I started teaching, I can't remember a start of school on on Monday, so for us this year a full week of school has really been killer!  We had a great first week!  I don't want to jinx anything for my year, but I must admit I am in LOVE with my class already!  While it was tiring, it was amazing and I can't wait for the next 175 days with them.  I really didn't do much cute or fun stuff this first week of school that I can share with you, but I can give you a little tour around my classroom.  I will make sure Heather gives you a tour of her room too, because it is super adorable!  

For the past 11 years, I have been Roach's RockStars!  I am so glad that so many companies have started to make Rock Star themed classroom materials!  This is the wall outside my classroom.  I have combined three different companies for this look.  The Bulletin Board set is by Carson Dellosa.   The Rocker Chic Border and Pink Sassy Solids Border are both by Frog Street Press.  As well as the letters.  I glued the guitars to clothespins and hung them in the hall below my board.  This is where I will display their work for the hallway.                                       

  

The door to  my classroom, was inspired by Pinterest (I mean what isn't inspired by Pinterest these days!?!).  I found this printable one here.

As you enter my classroom, you come to this amazing find that I discovered at Michaels.  All of our students have to wear name tags that are used to check out books in the library, during their connect classes (special areas), and buying lunch in the cafeteria.  My students are notorious for losing these cards and I decided that I needed a system in place for keeping track of them.  This jewelry holder was the perfect item!

The listening area. (Still missing notebooks and pillows)

On the end of the blue bookshelf that sections off my listening center is my birthday board that I got from Hope King! (Still missing their sweet little faces!)

I made these little signs for my kids to know which Connect Class we go to each day.  This can be confusing because we are on a 6 day rotation!

My easel area.  I spend the majority of my time in this area.  

My blank walls.  I framed them with border but decided to leave them blank so that I have room for all of my anchor charts.  (Also notice the wall of bookshelves.  I finally finished my library that I worked on all summer long.  I posted about it here.  I am so pleased with the final product!)

My calendar.  I used the rest of that Rock Star Bulletin Board set by Carson Dellosa and the Calendar itself and numbers are Frog Street Press.

This might be my favorite part of the front of the room.  I got these printables from Technology Rocks Seriously.   I made the right side to match the colors from the left side.  This is where my objectives will be stated daily.  

I don't know about you, but my OCD tendencies force me to have everything symmetrical.  

This is a fun addition to my front board that keeps the kids guessing!  I framed my class picture from when I was in the second grade for the kids to guess which one I am.  

My workshop board where the kids look to see where they are in rotations for math and reading rotations.  

My new U Table.  This was built by the husband of a friend of mine.  It is quite possibly the MOST amazing U table on the planet!  My friend moved to Middle School and doesn't have room for this table any longer.  Instead of collecting dust in her garage, she has entrusted me to keep it for her in case she decides that she has to come back to Elementary School.  (Side note, I spoke with said friend on Friday and she informed me that she may never come back to elementary school, she loves middle school so much.)   

A view from the back of the table.

I used a cool app on my phone called Photosynth that allows me to take panoramic pictures.  I thought it would be fun to take a picture of my entire room.  So awesome!  

Thanks for hanging with me for the long post.  I hope you enjoyed looking at my classroom!