Back to School

I've loved looking at all of your beautiful and creative rooms these last few weeks! After working like an animal in my classroom this past week (in between all of those meetings/trainings of course) my room is complete. I've carried over the apple theme that I started last year. That made things a lot easier- although it didn't stop me from buying an insane amount of new things! Here are the pictures I took today at school. Enjoy!

Room at a glance
Grammar Wall (I am an ELD teacher so I have to have this instead of a word wall.)

Front door, Class Jobs, Star of the Week

Name Station (From Deanna Jump's Unit)

Word Family Station

ABC Order Station, Word Work Station, Rhyming Station
Calendar Math Notebooks (So excited to try this!)

Calendar Math Wall
Calendar Math Wall

Calendar Math Wall

Math Stations

Got these above great ideas from fellow bloggers! Thank you!

Writing Wall

(We are starting Thinking Maps, thus the new posters.)

Carpet Area
(Love the vowel glues from Teacher Wife! Thank you!)

Reading Focus Wall

Small Group Area

Reading Group Tubs

Student Work Display (27 kids so far! Wow!)

Student Book Boxes

They are organized by Table Numbers and I am going to take their pictures and post on the boxes for easy id.

Looking into the hallway

Reading Tree

The kids apple/names will move up or down depending on their ORF scores each week.

Organization (writing journals, wake-up journals, etc)

My Teacher Area
Library Station, Cubbies, Computers


An Example of a Table

Thursday night was Meet the Teacher Night at our school.

Here is a picture of my first grade team this year.

Cori is new to our team this year (she came up from Kinder and replaced Kelli who went up to Second Grade this year), then me, then Kate (this is our 7th year teaching together), and Lisa (this is our 5th year teaching together). We're going to have a great year!