Classroom Reveal

 Finally!!   I am ready to show my classroom.  You will notice that my classroom has very little wall space.  That forces me to use the blinds to hang stuff from.  My front wall is mostly taken up by my white board and the back wall is cabinets and sink.  But, I manage.  I'm pretty pleased with the way it turned out.    Please know that once school starts, I will be taking down the "premade" posters and replacing them with student work.  I just don't like bare spaces and those posters give some color.  Take a look.

View from front door

Library area

View from back of room

My area-  I traded my big desk for this small computer table

Front of room

Team Caddy

Book Bins

Those rectangles have letters on them.  This will be my word wall. 

Love my globe!  It's actually lights up.

Behavior expectations/ Clip Chart

Found this bulletin board at Goodwill for $5.  Perfect for this space!  I redid Cara's posters to match my colors.

Binder cover that each student receives

Hopefully, that wasn't too many pictures for ya!  Just wanted to show every angle.  

I get to meet my kiddos on Monday and then officially start on Wednesday.  I am super excited and am anticipating an amazing year!

I linked up with Beg, Borrow, Steal for her tour of classrooms.  Head on over there and check it out.  I've also linked up with  Swimming Into Second's Show Off Your Space.

Family Vacay and Made it Monday

 WooHoo!  Family vacay time.  We are packing up and heading to the beach for a few.  My girlies are super excited and I must admit, I am too!  Can't wait to hear the waves crashing and watch the sun rising up over the ocean in the mornings.  Total relaxation!

Finally went to school to start my working on my classroom.  This is what met me.

View from front door

View from back of room

I've been working really hard to get it back together, but I'm not quite ready to post pictures of the finished product yet though.

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And now on to Monday Made It with Tara at 4th Grade Frolics.  One thing that I made was this "Compliment Can".  I found this cute trash can at Dollar General.  I hot glued the lid on and then created the label.  This is where the kids will put their compliments that they have for each other.  Then, at our Class Council meetings, I will read the compliments aloud and give the slips to the kids to keep.  They really get into catching their classmates doing something good.

I also put together some Shared Journals that I got from Tara, used my Cricut to cut some vinyl to put on my clipboard container and made some anchor charts for my math board.

If you are interested in the math charts, you can get them here.

Hope you have big plans for the last few days of your break!  Don't forget to link up! 
 

Summer Shopping Link Up

Ladybug's Teacher Files is hosting a Summer Shopping Linky Party and I'm joining!  I had so much fun going through all the things I've purchased for my new sports themed classroom.  I'm really wishing I didn't have to wait ANOTHER two weeks to get into my room!!!  I am super excited to start decorating.  I have a feeling it's gonna be pretty cute.  Here's some of the stuff I have bought so far.

 I found this laser level at Lowe's for $5!  It's magnetic so I can put it on my whiteboard to help me write in a straight line and to make sure my posters are straight.  I know, I know...OCD!!  The tape measure was also $5 and is self-centering.  See close up of picture for explanation.

I have also purchased the 15 Sunshine State Books.  Only 9 have arrived.  A couple won't be released until after school starts.


The games came from Goodwill.  They look like the haven't been played at all.  The Scrabble game still had the plastic wrap!  At $1.99 each, I knew I had a steal!!!  If you have never played Blurt with your kids, it is a MUST!  They ab.so.lute.ly love it.

  

Ordered some pencil pennants, goody bags for back-to-school- and pennants for the kiddos to make from Oriental Trading.  I found those markers on clearance at Wally World for $2 a pack.  I got all they had.  :)

The caddies are for each group.  I had to get new ones since my color scheme changed.  These are from Oriental Trading also.

The ice bin idea came from Pinterest.  Since my school is going to begin Daily 5, my kiddos will need book bins.  These will be great and they are pretty cheap.  I'm going to make a cute label for each one with the kids' numbers or names.
  

The rug is from Target.  LOVE IT!  And check out that lamp!  On clearance for...$11!  Can it get any better?!?

These are some miscellaneous decorations.  The fans will hang over my teams.  I'm gonna put something sporty in the centers. 

 The lunchboxes were on clearance at Party City.  I am going to use them to store center activities in. 

I got the keyboards at a thrift store to use during Word Work.

Lastly comes the chocolate!  Wrapped like sports balls!  






Oh how I wish I could get started...

How bout you?  What'd you buy?  Go ahead, link up!