School Beginnings

 This is the start of my math area. I need to change the labels  on my bins so look for that pic soon.

 Revamping my science area this year.

 Social Studies beginnings.

The start of my decorating this year! You'll see a lot of stuff adapted from Pinterest to fit my needs and style. I have a Cricket machine that I can't live with out. That is how I made all of the cutouts. I made the clothes line jobs a few years ago and it has really worked so I've kept them but for the most part I like to change things up each year.  The colored clothes pins stay and I have regular clothes pins with the kids names on them....well as soon as I get my class list I will. We only change jobs on the first of the month so the kids have their jobs all month long. This cuts down on having to remember to change jobs each week and the kiddos really like having their jobs for a month. Also it allows me to hang the job chart a bit higher since I only have to get to it once a month. On the first of the month we have a ritual of cleaning out our desks, changing them if needed, jobs classroom library check (make sure book are where they are supposed to be and books in the "book hospital" are repaired) I don't like to put up too much on the bulletin boards because the kids create a lot of the displays. For example the first week of school in math I take small groups and the kiddos make a poster of problem solving strategies and "math words we already know" to post on the math bulletin board. Through out the year we add to theses posters. In science the clouds are laminated so we will write words to describe the cloud types on the clouds and then display student work and vocabulary with definitions written by the kiddos. I will definitely update with more pictures as I take them.