I'm not sure if you know... but I inherited many things in my classroom from the previous teacher, so I did not have much room for my own things!
This is what my room was like at the end of my first year! I look at all of these other beautifully organized and decorated rooms on all of these other beautifully organized and decorated blogs and I knew I had a long was to go before I could even think of decorating! I needed ORGANIZATION first! I need to get rid of things and tone things down a bit!!! SO..........
Here are pictures of what I started my room like at the beginning of the year LAST year (2012-13) I did move a few things around by the end of the school year, but it got so hectic that I didn't have time to take pictures of that. I'm so excited for what I have planned for this year that I can barely contain it. The pictures up top are like pre-before pictures... the pictures following are the before pictures and hopefully soon, we will have some after pictures.
I have a fairly small room and I have one wall that is entirely shelving with no doors....
(I put velcro on the top of the shelving and then sewed it on to some sheets to work as fast acting doors. This is my project I'm working on this summer!)
And one wall that is entirely cupboards.
Then I have one wall that is dividing my room with another room. You can't nail or tape anything to the wall because of its texture, but its all magnetic, so that's a plus. Then the last wall houses my SMARTBoard and It's the only wall that has white boards and bulletin boards. My first year, I actually didn't have a white board, but apparently someone was going to get rid of one and I joinked that up in a hurry!
Now, in the past, I really don't think that I have utilized this space with the full potential that it really has, when I got placed in this room, it was left with all of the previous teacher's acquirements from the last umpteen years so I spent the whole first year trying to clean out some of the piles... What you see now may look plain, dull and empty, but to me... it was heaven. I actually had room for some of my things and to start getting ideas for what I wanted to do to the room! So now, I am excited to start experimenting with it this year!
This was my listening station...
And my small group area. I got rid of my desk this past year (and I really don't miss it) so this was "my" space. Again... I know that I could better organize my back shelf to be more efficient (and a bit cuter, too)!!!
This corner had my Word Work shelf, manipulatives, and a writing or work table for the students
View of the front of the room from the back.. OH! How boring!!!
View from my door (pretty bare!)
And here is my classroom library:
It's too crammed... I want to fix it up this year to be more accommodating. If you have any advice... please, share!!!
The cart on the right held non-fiction books in different categories, the cart on the left held A.R. leveled fiction books. The red boxes were 2.0-2.9, the blue were anything below 2.0, the green box was 3.0-3.9 and the yellow boxes on the bottom were 4.0 or higher and were off limits for most of the year. On some of the shelving, I had categorized books. I just used the post-it labels to label them. They stuck all year and still come off like a post-it promises! There were many other book boxes, but apparently I only wanted to take a picture of a couple!
Alright.... To show some more after pictures!
I decided this year to try and keep my Library open so I could fit the whole class in it for stories. I put my CAFE board and Daily 5 board back there to reference easily while we are reading.
I moved my Small Group Table over by the computers. It seemed to have more space this year.
I found these cute baskets on clearance at JoAnn's.
My Hopes and Dreams Board. I made my file cabinets into mini bulletin boards with plastic table cloth and bulletin board border.
The room continually changes and it will probably forever. Each year I like it a little more!
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