Well, we just finished our official third complete week of school. I feel like we keep stopping and starting...hurricane days and Labor day...speaking of hurricanes, our school had absolutely no damage from Hurricane Isaac! Hooray! But I am still keeping our friends to the east of us in my prayers...
Anyway, I put my room back together and I am ready to show y'all some pictures of how it usually looks.
The view from my desk (don't tell Dr. Lauer that I have one!). I rarely sit here anyway.
The word wall (you can see it peeking out in the first picture)- I write each student's name on a sentence strip and then allow them to decorate it any way that they would like. Then we put it on the word wall by the first letter in their names. This is a first day activity. I believe in adding words to the word wall as the students become familiar with them. What's the point of putting stuff up that the kids won't use because they don't know what it is?
Our new behavior management system- Ann and I decided to rewrite our system this year to reward the students who always work hard and are well-behaved all the time. I will have to explain more in another post because it's very detailed...but it works well.
The view from the front door
Here are my cubbies. The kids each have one labeled with their name and picture. They keep all of their work in here, along with their bucket. What's in the bucket? Well I'm so glad that you asked! My kids keep their crayons, scissors, and glue in here. They pull out the bucket when they need it, and put it away when they don't. I have rainbow fever this year, so I decided to organize it by color left to right.
One final picture...I learned to make bows this summer, and decided to extend the craft to storage baskets for my classroom. Here is where I keep all of my read-alouds that go along with the theme or season that we are in.
That's it for now...more pictures later!
Katie :)
