A few more photos of my room!

I am almost ready!!!  I have meetings for 3 days next week, so I only have 2 more days to work in my room this week before they close off my hallway to wax the floor.  I have hung up a few more things in my room  that I want to show everyone! 

 This is the schedule I got last year and my new rules from, oh no, I can't find who they were from!!!! :(  If you recognize these, PLEASE let me know so I can give you credit!!

 I found this idea on Pinterest last year.  People were using frames from the Dollar Store to write their Objectives on.  Instead of objectives, I put these by my door and write notes on them!  (When my next Data Meeting is, who wears glasses-so they remember to take them home!!, etc)

This is my bulletin board for the beginning of the year!  I found these from Karen Wasdin.  I am going to put a coloring paper they do on the first day next to each crayon :)

I FINALLY figured out a place to put up A Year of Writing!!!  I am sooooo excited about this wall!  Now, I just have to figure out how to attach all the writing without using tacks.  I will destroy the wall if I put tacks on each one and have to pull them out every month.  Any ideas, Anyone???  Maybe small bull clips? 

I am going to try to enjoy my last weekend before school starts!  I hope everyone else's year is starting off great!!

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YEAH!!!!! It looks like a classroom!!!

I was getting nervous last week that I would never see the end of the tunnel.  After working in my classroom for 9 HOURS yesterday, my room finally looks like kids could enter and actually learn something ;)

 I have a rug area with no junk on it!!!  Let's just hope 20 students fit in the space I have provided for them :)  Next I need to fill my library shelves (on the left) with all the books I just organized in my closets!

 So how long do you think this shelf will stay like this???  I give it 10 minutes on the first day!  I still need to make paper labels for every shape so the children know where to put them back when they are finished with them.

 This is one side of the large cart every classroom has in my school.  I had a ton of ABC center things, so I tried to get them all together on this side.  Just need Labels, labels, labels!!!

 This is only 2 of the 5 sets of shelves I have above the sink area.  Everything is finally in boxes!  And again, all I need is labels, labels, labels!!  There are definitely cuter labels than these old ones I put on years ago :)

Supplies, anyone???  I have enough Scotch Tape, pins/tacks, brads, pencils, glue sticks, chalk, etc to last me for the next 5 years!!!  This was all left for me...I love that teachers are hoarders!

 I have 3 closets like this.  As you can see, they droop a little and it is only a matter of time before they all start falling off the walls!  When they deigned our building, they were meant to be the kids' cubbies, however, they are too high for them!  So we all use them for our books instead!  Teachers challenge me to see how quickly I can find a book within the hundreds that I own.  Because I label the shelves with electrical tape, I can usually find what they are looking for in under 30 seconds!

This was the best purchase I made last year!  I always put notes from meeting on my desk, or field trip forms,IEPs, Data forms, etc.  They ALWAYS end up lost and I find them a month after I need them.  With these pockets, from (I think) www.reallygoodstuff.com or School Specialty, I just put everything in their respective pocket and when I need it, it is right there for me!

This is my very important wall!  I got the numbers from http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Fun-Times-In-First on TpT and the Shape posters from http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Caitlin-Clabby-Kindergarten-Smiles on TpT.  I got the cute letters for my Word Wall last year and I can't remember who they are from :(  If you recognize them let me know so I can give credit to you!!  And my Common Core Standards will be proudly displayed from  http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Deanna-Jump-11on TpT as well!  I love how this wall came out!! (Sorry, still trying to figure out how to make the web addresses a link for you to go to directly!  You will have to copy and paste these)

Many teachers in my school have asked how I keep the kids supplies organized and how they are not gone by Christmas!  Well, even though it is a bit time consuming, before school starts, I put a colored piece of electrical tape on EACH marker and colored pencil at each table.  So at blue table, all of their supplies have blue tape on them. At read table, there is red tape on each supply, and so on.  If a marker runs out, I just replace it with a new one with new tape on it.  Also, if something falls on the floor, we know exactly which table it belongs on :)

WOO HOO!!!  My kids have a place to sit now!!!  The tables are finally all clean and ready for my new friends!  All we are missing are the Chair Pockets from www.reallygoodstuff.com to keep their Fundations supplies in.

I hope they get time to use this area!  The dolls and clothes are all cleaned and the table is fixed!  Thanks, Dad!

So, next week, I just have a few more little things to put away and then it is on to filing!  Oh, and I guess I should start figuring out how I am going to start my year!!  Back to Pinterest it is!

Thank you to the people that started following me on bloglovin!!!!  I am so excited to share my experience this year!!  And I will try to share ideas and projects that we do throughout the year!!

Am I done yet???

I feel like I can't see an end in sight.  I get rid of boxes and boxes and bags and bags of trash, but I still can't see any surface in my room :(  EXCEPT, I did finally get to the bottom on my counter behind my desk!!  I filled this mailbox with all my colored cardstock, so I can easily find it when I am making all the fun stuff I find on TpT, TN and Pinterest!!  I LOVE LOVE my new binder covers from Kathleen G on TpT!!  I want to put all the new stuff I find throughout the year in these binders, then be ready to go next year!

These are the other surfaces that I cannot see yet.  After taking these pictures, I did clear out some of those boxes you can see, but it still seems like there is stuff EVERYWHERE!!!

 Student tables

I promise, they will be able to sit there soon!

 Sink/ Art area

I did get through 3 1/2 out of 5 of the sections of shelves above the counter on the far right.  Phew!  They now have everything in boxes that match and all the same stuff is together and organized.  Hmmm, now to find some cute labels to put on them ;)

Student closets

Haven't even thought about tackling this area yet!

So after a nice family reunion this weekend, I will be back to work next week!  Time is quickly ticking away and it's making me very nervous that I will run out of time :(  I hate just throwing everything back in boxes to hide it.  I never end up going through it!

Well, I am going to relax and have fun and not think about this disaster until Monday :)  Have a nice weekend!

Getting Down to Business!

Thanks to Deedee Wills on TpT, my Work on Writing area is done!! (minus a cute heading for the area and my colors above it!)  I absolutely LOVE how it came out!!!  I just need to print the different kinds of paper they can write on and I will worry about painting this wall next year :)  Here is what it looks like!!

I am heading back in tomorrow to tackle the countertops.  Hopefully, after that, I can start organizing around my desk area.  I am very overwhelmed with how much I have to go through, but it will get done and I can't wait to post more pictures!!

I want to thank the few people that started following me on Bloglovin!!  Thank you so much for giving me a chance!  I am very new at this and hopefully can share some new ideas this year :)  Or at least show how I am using all of your ideas in my classroom!!

More Room Pictures!

I am getting there...slowly, but surely!  I emptied about 10 boxes yesterday and threw away at least 7 bags of trash!!  I went through many files and started hanging stuff on the walls.  Here are a few pictures of what I did!

This will be where I take my guided reading groups.  The black board will be my Word Wall.  I can't find my cute letters I found on TPT last year :(  Hopefully they are in one of the boxes I haven't opened yet!

This is my children's tables and housekeeping to the left.  As you can see, I still have  A LOT to go through in the bottom of the closets!!

This is my Library Area.  I hope they love the bench I made last year!  Those shelves will be full of books by September!

And this is my Work on Writing Area!  I can't wait for my Amazon order to come in with my clothes pins and string, so I can hang my September Words on the wall!  I was soooo exciting to find that cart at Big Lots!!!  It will hold different kinds of paper for the kiddos!

I did a lot of work yesterday!  The custodians were very impressed! :)  Can't wait to get some more done next week!
Aimee

Ready to set up!

Well, I am back from a week and a half vacation and ready to get started in my classroom.  As many people have said in passing by, I have a HUGE undertaking ahead of me!  I am trying to get in any extra time I can get besides the two days a week that my kiddos are at school.  Here are some pictures of things I have started getting ready.  I can't wait to post pictures of my whole room!!!

These are my new mailboxes!  I got the clips idea from "Teaching With Love and Laughter" on Pinterest.  LOVE LOVE!!!

This is a cabinet I got from my mom that fits buckets from Lakeshore in it.  I gave it a little facelift with my polka dot theme :)

The stove in my Housekeeping area didn't look like a stove anymore.  Oh what a Sharpie pen will do for a kids stove top!

Love that I am in Kindergarten this year...I can bring my kids and actually get stuff done!!  They love all of the new stuff they get to play with!  Only problem is, I have to put everything back that they take out!

Hope to get a lot more done tomorrow!

Aimee