Classroom Tour 2015

Hey everyone! I am back (after not posting for over a month!) to finally give the classroom reveal for this year. I stuck with my theme from last year of colors and chalk. I kept a few of my bee theme decorations as well because they were just too cute to take down!

Here is a {#onemonthtoolate #ohwell #betterlatethannever} tour of my classroom!!! Enjoy.

Here you can see the tables where my students do their seat work as well as their individual book baggies (from reallygoodstuff, you can find them here). The scroll on the whiteboard will be used for our classroom rules when the kids have helped create, draft, and publish them. I like to keep them in a really accessible and visible place so that we can refer back to them often. To the right of the whiteboard is my daily schedule visual and the classroom jobs chart. To the left is our word wall-- I add our sight words each week as we cover them. 

Our book baggies! Labeled with student numbers (so that I do not have to slave away erasing names/changing out name tags every year).

Our behavior clip chart which I got here from Elizabeth at Kickin' It In Kindergarten. I decided to start using this chart because I liked that it is simple and clear. I also use numbers instead of names on this chart to avoid drawing negative attention to students who need a little reminder :)

On the focus wall, I post weekly sight words and vocabulary words, our current math concepts, and our weekly spelling lists.  

Our classroom library area is a multipurpose space. It is also the circle area for most of our whole group learning and the meeting place for our Responsive Classroom morning meeting. As another component to Responsive Classroom, I write a morning message on the chart each day. Students interact with the message when they arrive by answering a question at the bottom or writing a response. 

Listening center and storage of our other literacy centers. Our word work, spelling, and write the room centers are in the 3 drawers on the right. I use the 3 on the left for "finished early" activities. Students know they can open the drawer and choose from3 or 4 activities when  they finish work early. 

The small group reading/math area. This is where I do my guided reading lessons and math intervention/extension. I keep the supplies (leveled readers, word work activities, white boards) behind the desk chair in several plastic bins (which did not make it into this picture!). My math tubs are the 4 blue boxes on the shelf to the left. We rotate through these 4 math stations each week. One of the math tubs is an activity done with the teacher. This allows a time for me to do small group math intervention and target specific skills for students who need support. 

Our writing center. Students are given academic choice in terms of their writing topic. The small cards hanging on the O ring are from Denise at SunnyDaysinSecondGrade! You can get them here.  She has really cute and fun writing prompts for each month of the school year. They include a variety of fiction, non-fiction, how-to, letters, poetry, and more. My kids love them! I usually give them 2 choices for "have to" writing. If they finish this early, they can choose any topic they'd like from the task cards. I change them out every month! 

I hope you enjoyed the tour!