Saturday, August 17, 2013

Classroom Tour 2013

Well, here are some pictures of my classroom this year. We just had open house on Thursday and I start school Monday. Ready or not, here they come! I have 24 sweet 5th graders on my list so far... you never know how many will really show up or how many extras you might get. We shall see. Hope you enjoy the tour!


View from the front door...

My "ticket out the door" poster. Students will write something they learned on a Post-It note and stick it on the poster.


My Boggle board for word work.


View of my cabinets and cubbies. I will put my word wall on the cabinets and the cubbies hold their math and reading stations.


One side of the classroom library. All books are in baskets by genre and then stickered with reading levels. More about my library can be found here.


View of the front of the room.


Another look at the word wall and classroom library.


This is my data-tracking board. I will show student progress on this board through our formative assessments we give. It will not have their name on it, but rather, just show how many students in our class passed each skill tested. There is one for math and one for reading.


This is my small group table. I recovered the chair to make it match the room a little better!


My desk... palm tree is just a carpet tube, lunch sacks over it, and an umbrella in the top.


My podium and chair I also recovered so it matched.



Small reading and writing area. Table and chairs are from Target a few years ago.


Writing center with writing supplies and our VOICES posters.


These are my "turn-in" folders where all work is turned in. They turn in their work in alphabetical order inside the subject-area folder.


Table for staplers, paper, highlighters (to highlight their names before turning in their papers).


Behind my desk... kind of messy in this picture, but you understand that, right?


Open house homework... students are asked to bring in a picture of their family to show the class and parents are asked to fill out a survey about their child and family to return to me.


Hope you enjoyed the tour!

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I loved your classroom photos. It is not too cluttered but still had personality.
Would you be willing to show us the page that you have parents complete about their child?
Thank you!
B

Vanna, The Crafty Teacher said...

Thank you! I got the student information page from another blogger. Here is the link to it and many other great ideas I'm using this year: http://nerdyteacherconfessions.edublogs.org/units-and-lesson-plans/first-week-of-school/

Anonymous said...

Thank you very much for the link. I like that parents can share their views on how their child learns best.
Have a good start to the year!
B