Show off your classroom! Linky Party!!

It's been a while since I posted pictures of my classroom, or perused pictures of other wonderful classrooms, so I am super excited to link up with Christi's Show Off Your Classroom Linky Party over at Ms. Fultz's Corner. Head on over to link up, find inspiration, or cram some more pics into (if your like me) your already overflowing Pinterest boards. :)

WARNING: These pictures were taken right before I jetted out the door for spring break so not all areas of my room are the neatest or most organized. ALSO these pictures were taken with my tablet so they are not the best quality.

The view from my desk

My desk corner BEFORE some spring tidying

My desk corner AFTER some tidying

Our Class Library

My room isn't too spacious so I try to get creative with spaces.

My reading and math group table covered with stacked chairs and our FIT balls

 Computer Corner

Data Wall & Daily Objectives

Views from different spots in the room

 I hope you enjoyed the tour! I can't wait to see even more amazing classrooms. Link up if you can!

My Data Wall

I had a question about what documents are on my data wall and I thought it would be a great topic for a post. We are required to have a data wall posted in our classroom, some items on the wall are mandatory and some are just teacher preference. On my data wall I have:

• class vision & mission (created by the students as whole class)
• graphs to chart class averages on unit tests in math, social studies, science, and language arts
• quality student poster
• quality teacher poster
• GOTCHA stickers (rewards earned whent he entire class is on task)
• our class goal and charting toward our goal

The students also have self smart notebooks (personal data binders). In their notebooks they have:

• their quality student/teacher diagrams that they created with their group
• our class vision/mission
• our classroom expectations
• the same unit test graphs but with their personal scores on the test
• mad minute graphs to chart their progress on their addition/multiplication facts
• personal goals and charting toward acheiving their goal

Below is a picture of my data wall. I will add an updated picture once my class creates our mission/vision, quality student, quality teacher, and class goals.

I'm Back and I've brought pictures!

So I am back from my hiatus and I am bearing pictures of my classroom. Today was our first day of school and things went amazingly well! I am too tired for a long post so I will just get straight to the pictures.

                                                                   my classroom door

my front wall with my daily board on one side of the promethean and my math board on the other

 quality life skill & guidelines posters

 corner of my library

 FACE bulletin board

 the multi-color tubs will be used for our classroom book return while the blue cubes will be used to store our math games

 library (under the chalk board)

 library chalkboard and my chapter book rack that I inheirited & think is amazing!

 my picture books

 school picture books are on the wooden shelf, picture books by series are in the white cubed cubbies, and the spinning rack has all fiction ch. books

 white board that i will most likely use for science/social studies

 math board

 my daily board that has our schedule, calendar, objectives by subject, and lunch choices

 reading table set up for supplies

 8 smarts posters & data wall

 my messy desk that is actually looking a lot better now

my handsome husband sharpening pencils for the first day of school :)

inside some of my cabinets



I will be back later with more pictures from the first week! Enjoy!

This is what I'm working with (classroom photos)

Today I had to go up to my school to pick up some books and I took a peek inside of my future room to find utter choas!!! ...and some goodies. It was a bit overwhelming because I found out we won't be able to get into our classrooms until August 15 due to the roof repair falling behind schedule. Things wouldn't be so bad if I was tasked with setting up and empty classroom, but my classroom is already full and I haven't even brought in any of my materials yet!

I realize there might be a bit of back story needed to fully understand my situation:
I completed my graduate student teaching at my school, in 3rd grade, from August-December of 2010. The principal is amazing and wanted to keep me around so she hired me as a permanent substitute from January-June 2011. While I was subbing she hired me to teach for the upcoming school year! Yay! Things worked out in a wonderful way and it turns out that I will be taking the spot of my mentor teacher (who will be moving to a different school) and I will move into the classroom where I did my student teaching, teaching 3rd grade. Because my mentor teacher was so great, she left me a lot of things to help me get my school year started including books, pocket charts, student supplies, posters, teacher office supplies, storage bins and tubs, games, construction paper, etc. (You can read more about all of the goodness she left in this post).

Below are pictures of what I encountered today:

YAY!!!!! I was so happy when I saw this! I am officially official!

A bookshelf already full of books is a great thing! Although I still have a lot of books to bring in.

If my mentor teacher wouldn't have left me construction paper I would have had to buy it with my alotted money! I'm VERY happy about this!

Froggy Games & Reading Rods

Some other language games, many of which have not yet been opened!

All of the pencils, expo markers, post-its etc. that my mentor teacher left for me.

Class sets of clipboards (many which were not used) and 40+ whiteboards.

My math manipulative cabinet already filled with manipulatives (although I will definitely have to sort and reorganize). P.S. This cabinet does have doors that close so the tubs are not exposed.

The 4 tablets of jumbo chart paper that was left, I also have 7 medium sized tablets of chart paper.

The 3rd grade hallway!

The wardrobe filled with goodies! The hanging clothes protector has pocket charts and posters inside.

30+ book bins

My amazing easel with 2 dry erase sides and four storage tubs!

Some of the math manipulative goodies.

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