The first week back to school was a success! As always, the first week was long and tiring but it was very exciting. I love my new class!
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My van all loaded up and ready to head to school to set up |
I moved from middle school to fifth grade this year so that meant moving to a new classroom. If you are a teacher, you know how much effort goes into setting up a new room for a new grade level. Here are some pictures of my room when I arrived two weeks ago
Here is what it looks like after I added my touch to it...
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The hallway outside my classroom |
I teach at a Christian school where all of the Elementary classrooms have the same theme. This year's theme is F.R.O.G. (Fully Rely On God) so there are plenty of frogs around the room.
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I wrote each of the student's names on the frogs |
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View from the hallway (Rug $19.99 from Ikea) |
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I have 18 students in my class so I felt placing the desks into 4 groups made the best use of the small space (Curtains from Ikea $14.99 a pair) |
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Continuing the Frog theme with my Birthday chart |
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One of my middle school students last year drew this scientist for me. |
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The empty bulletin board will be filled with speech bubbles and pictures of the kids. The kids will write their goals of the speech bubbles. |
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My cursive alphabet has a science theme. This is an easy way to incorporate more science into your elementary classroom. I purchased them on Teachers Pay Teachers. |
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I love having a podium. The bar stool is from IKEA. |
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One of my pet peeves is when people don't use these correctly. So I have these posters hanging on the walls. I printed them for FREE from Teachers Pay Teachers. |
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I purchased these Sterlite file boxes from Walmart and decorated them with an editable file from Teachers Pay Teachers. |
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Every time the students check the time they see this sign. |
I will be super busy the next few weeks with my class and with my additional coaching duties but I plan to post about some more of the fun ideas that you can see in my classroom!
Your classroom looks great! When I worked at a Christian camp I loved incorporating faith based stickers/posters/words anywhere I could. I love the FROG theme!
ReplyDeleteAMY!!!!!!!! I love your classroom!!!!!!! It looks so happy and fun and very comfy. What a wonderful place to learn! Have a great school year. Those kids will be blessed to have you!
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