Classroom Reveal & A Freebie

I'm exhausted. And school hasn't even started yet, well for the kids any way. They come tomorrow. But I'm tired! LOL Getting a room ready, back to school meetings, Open House, paperwork, paperwork, etc. is exhausting. But most of the time, it's fun! :)

I'll see how I feel tomorrow after my first set of babies show up. We stagger our K students the first 4 days. Then on the fifth day, we get all of our kids. (Then we are out for labor day so it all starts again after that! Crazy).

How do you guys get your K students? Do you all start the first day or do you get a few each day like me? Curious to see what everyone does.

On to my classroom reveal. I had these pictures ready to go last week but kind of slacked off on blogging. Here ya go.

 This is the board I put up for open house. Here's the idea source from Pinterest of course.

It's the first thing you see when coming down the K hallway.

 

 

Here's the wall by my door. I decided not to do some elaborate board (there's no bulletin board in the hallways---we just staple to this wall). The owls are from my Owl Open House Pack. 

 This is the view from the door. I had it all ready for Open House. It looks a lot bigger this year b/c my dad came out and did some rearranging for me. There was only one red cabinet in the back (the student's closet) but he moved another back there as well as the file cabinet. The third red cabinet is hidden by the back door near the other teacher's classroom. 

The whiteboard on the cart is where my carpet/meeting area is. The cart is located beside a whiteboard that will hold my Mimio. 

 Moved all of the math tubs under the clock. This is to the left when you walk in the front door of the room.

 This is the back bulletin board. Don't have anything up yet, but it'll be my data board. We are required to post up data through out the year to show student's growth, etc. so I plan on putting all of that here. 

 This is the back of the room. The colorful drawers are in front of the teacher's desk. I got rid of one of our desks a couple of years ago, but left this one for my TA. She mainly uses it for when she's doing their binders that go home and other paperwork. 

But it's nice b/c you can't really see it b/c of the carts.

 This is the student's work board. Once I get all of the student's names (they are coming and going right now) then I will make name tags/pictures for each clip and house their work there. The shelves underneath are puzzles and games and extra books. I keep table cloths on them b/c I can't stand to look and just see a random shelf of stuff. Although neat, it bothers me.

 This is where two of the red cabinets were to begin with. But I moved the kidney table and my randomness to this corner. LOVE IT!! It makes the room soooo much bigger now b/c the cabinets are moved to the back. The yellow shelf once held book baskets for the reading station but when I started moving stuff I decided to use it to house my notebooks, etc. The polka dotted table cloth hides extra math stuff that doesn't fit into the tubs.

 This wall is to the right of the front door. It now has my reading station on it. The green paper is covering tons of big books. I'll take that off in a week or so. Those are some numbers I created to add some color to that wall. 

You can grab them here. 

 This is my new favorite part of my room. My dad added a tile board to my wall and it just makes it POP with color. That wall is blah and now it's not!! This is my word wall. I need to fix the ribbon up top on my banner (it says Word Wall) but haven't yet. The pocket charts underneath will hold the cards for the writing station and the bins to the left will house all of the writing station stuff. 

 Just another view! Look at all of my floor space!!

 

 View from the back door and to the left. 

One supply closet and the kids closet.

 View from the back door looking straight. 

 

Computer area.

 

 To help keep my aid and I organized, I jumped on the sterlite drawer bandwagon and made this. 

 Graphics from 3rd Grade Gridiron, JW Illustrations, and Learning With Mrs. Leeby

I wanted to have something that said Home, so that she would know what needed to be sent home instead of me piling up stuff on the desk and her trying to figure it out.

Here's a freebie for you. It's in google docs, just download it and it'll open in PPT. It is editable so you can add your own words. I also included a polka dot set as well. Click on the picture to grab your freebie. Leave some love if you grabbed it!

A Couple More Pics & Birthday Bash Day 3

Off to school today to finish what I couldn't yesterday due to feeling ugh. Still can't move furniture so maybe next week I'll have better pictures. Right now it's kind of ho hum but it's a definite work in progress.

 Are these not the biggest scissors ever? I forgot I had these. Sheesh. Hide them please! :)

 

Above the sink. This is part of where they said they would paint but hasn't happened yet. Probably won't. So I said ya know what I'm hiding this. It's kind of an eye sore. I do use the counter for storage but that looks neater now that I've updated my tubs. See this post here.

 

 

 Better right?? The bins on the left will move back to the right. And I would love to get a light back there (probably just a touch one that sticks to the wall b/c of the water and fire marshall) but it definitely looks sooo much brighter. It says Fun in K in case you can't see b/c it's shiny!

 

Added the banner Shapes above the shapes I put up on Tuesday. Have no idea why it looks crooked (like the whole picture) I guess I can't take photos very well. I need to do something with the ribbon that's hanging but my arm was tired trying to push pin the panel wall. I'll make some nice bows or something.

Ok so I've had these math tubs for a few years now. Saw them on Jessica Meacham's site before I knew what blogging and blog stalking following was. She has a ridiculous amount of AWESOME stuff on her site. If you have never been there, you have no idea what you are missing. You can get lost.

So a few years back I organized all the math goodness into tubs to make my life easier. And it has. But I realized the other day how horrible the labels looked after years and years. So I made new ones. Of course I used Irene's Love Carbs font b/c it's my favorite.  

 

 Still have a couple to relabel. I would love to also put colored paper on the inside of the bins to "hide" the math stuff but my kiddos need to be independent so oh well. It still looks SOOO much better. I have two more of these storage units to the left of the polka dotted shelf that I redid the labels as well. 

That's pretty much it today. Next week I hope to be able to move some furniture and do a couple of other things so that I can finish up the room. Still a LOT left to do.

Ok now to birthday bash day 3. It's still going to be a Pin it or Share it to Win it.

Yesterday you could've won my new Chalkboard classroom set, today's winnings are up to you!

 

 

Pin or share (fb or blog) anything from my TPT store or TN store.

Please comment below with the url to your pin or share along with your email!

You could win whatever you pinned or shared today if you're number is picked!! :) 

Also a Flash Freebie of one of my most wishlisted items on TPT will be going up on FB around 4 pm EST. So if you aren't a follower....become one so you don't miss any more freebies!! 

 

 

It's A Sneak Peek & A Birthday Celebration

Headed out to school today to attempt something (without moving furniture...ahem..that was a hard thing to ignore...). Felt like I accomplished a little something.

Here's a few pics. 

From the classroom door. See said furniture on the right...ya know the stuff I can't move yet. 

 

 This is the wall with the owl alphabet from the post yesterday. See how it's so drab, no color, no fun, panel board. If I understood the whole hastag thing that would've been a great one.

 Now it's bare. Totally changed up my ideas.

 

Added the color words. I needed more color on this wall instead of the word wall. Moved the word wall to another wall for the FIRST time eva! :)

 

 The shape posters are to the left of the color words.

 

And here is said word wall! On the other wall! LOL This is the wall to the right of the classroom door. Want to move the number line ABOVE the color words. Need a ladder and a tall person. 

 

 

This is the vent in my room. I have to talk REALLY LOUD sometimes over that. But really I don't it just seems that my voice gets louder when it kicks on the air and the heat. (I share heat/air with 4 other classrooms....can be tough with everyone in different moods). Remember---open classrooms. Two vents. 

As stated in pic....ugh...needs painting badly....gross tape left from years and years and years. I attempted.  

My attempt. It looks WAY better in person. And very colorful from the door (I think you can see it in the first pic!!)

 

 

Red cabinets. Pretty much only storage IN room. Before walls...these WERE the walls. 

 

Took the owls off of my before word wall. Changed up the stars. Looks better. 

 

 He does NOT come with the classroom. But my oh my....is he spoiled or what?

 

That's all for the sneak peek today. I plan on doing a few other things tomorrow possibly or maybe Thursday. Depends. Will take pics for that.

Oh, if you aren't a FB follower, then you missed a Flash Freebie today!!!!

Make sure you become a follower so you don't miss any more freebies. May have one up for tomorrow. 

Today's flash freebie was my new chalkboard classroom set. The word wall headers I have up in my room are included in this packet. 

(TPT or TN)

 

 

 But just because you didn't grab it today during the flash freebie doesn't mean you still can't get it!!

Saturday, August 10th is my birthday. I will be....well how old do you think I will be?

The first one to guess will win this packet. Be sure to

leave a comment with your email.

Stay tuned later this week for a Pin it or Share it to Win it. A birthday week of fun!

 

 

 

Classroom Pictures

I was finally able to get into my room yesterday because my carpets had already been cleaned, so a few of my awesome friends/co-workers got together and we worked in my room and my neighboring teacher's room just moving furniture.

But of course I forgot to take before pics--go figure! But I did take a few after--and with a lot of changes this year, my room looks huge. First of all, last year I had long rectangle tables and my friend next door had trapezoid tables that she put together to make a hexagon. But the problem is, her room is SMALL! 

Our school has the open classroom concept (before I got there--10 yrs ago) there were no walls. It was all rolling cabinets that divided the rooms up. Now we have panel walls between our rooms and walls in the hallway. But the rooms are not divided up evenly space wise. 

Are your picturing this or have I thoroughly confused  you? 

Anyway so we decided to switch tables---I took the trapezoid, she took the rectangle. And WOW at the difference it has made in both rooms! Amazing...no pictures of her room though--sorry..I should have though. AND!!! I got rid of my assistant's desk as well!!!  

Ok on to the part you've been actually waiting for (unless you bypassed the above and went straight to the good stuff)! :)  And I forgot my camera--grr so the pictures are from my phone---sorry!

This is the view from the door looking into the classroom. My assistant's desk was right on the left as you came in the room. Now that will be where my writing table sits...and look at the space!!!!! 

This picture is the left wall that you would see if you were standing at the door. This obviously is my word wall. I've had the popcorn words displayed like this forevvverrr. No time for change this year but next year....hmmm. And the brown table in the bottom left corner was where the assistant's desk sat. The shelves that are covered is my reading station. 

This wall (was placed there a few years before I got to this school---it use to be that the red cabinets in the pictures below were the "walls") Anyway...this are my math tubs and under the polka dot  tablecloth is more math stuff. This is the wall to the right when you walk in the door. I was doing the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom exchange last year so hence the display. Not sure what I'll put up there this year. 

Ok this is wall on the far right when you walk in the room. This is my display wall for my student's work. 

Two of the famous rolling cabinets. These two house all my storage items (as well as a storage room across the hall) such as paper, crayons, etc. etc. And the stars are for my environmental print display board. These cabinets sit beside the math tub area and the kids display wall in the corner. There is one more red cabinet in the very back of the room (I think you can see it in the first picture) that holds the students book bags. 

This view is from where my desk sits at the back of the room looking towards the front door. (I don't use my desk--so now my assistant and I can share it and I mostly will use that kidney shape table in the picture to work at--finally got one after wanting one for years! And once I get my crate seats to school they will be at that table.)

This is still a view from my desk but it shows now you can look into the next 3 kindergarten classrooms from the back of my room. I do not have anyone on the other side of me--it's all wall and the last teacher's room in the picture is closed off as well on one side. There is one other K teacher who is down the hall and she is open to 4th grade on one side. 

Well there you have it. I'll post more pictures after next week once I have boards up and all the stuff put out and furniture exactly where I want it and all that good stuff. But at least you can see what we've gotten done so far. Because I couldn't do all of that by myself in one day (normally we have a couple of days). 

Now--off to the pool!