A Tour of My Classroom

It’s spring break this week, so I was finally able to take a few pictures in my classroom. I thought some of you might want to take a little peek into my world. I LOVE looking at pictures of other teachers’ classrooms and wanted to share mine with you. 🙂
This is behind my desk. On top is my Lakeshore organizer for each day of the week. Below are my ” rainbow drawers” I ordered from Calloway House. It holds things like staples, paper clips, awards, stickers, hole punches, tape, pencils, etc. Practically anything you could think of is in there somewhere!
My classroom library: It’s a little unorganized right now. Most of my books are at home in my garage so my librarian husband and can sort, organize, and catalog them for me.
View of my classroom from the door.
Another view from the door.
My Ice Cream words bulletin board (sight words).
Where students turn their work in. Cute sign from Ladybug’s Teacher Files.
Behavior Ladder: Since my first year of teaching I have used a Behavior Ladder. (Ladder because the kids move up and down it.) This summer I came across information about a Clip Chart management system and it was basically the same thing I had been doing so I modified mine a little. The library pockets are where they keep their Star Bucks. They earn Star Bucks for moving up the behavior ladder.
Door to my classroom
Work display outside my classroom door. I took foam sheets and glued a page protector (with sides that go into a binder cut off) onto each one. When I want to display work, all I have to do is slip their paper into the page protector. Right now our Fraction Pizzas are on display.
Fraction pizza page
We’re ready for Spring “Time” bulletin board. Each student made a flower clock and on the leaves wrote a time and what we do at that time of day.
Flower Clock example
Above our cubbies I have a place to display more work. Right now our silly band writing and grow capsule writing papers are hanging there.
Grow Capsule writing
Silly band writing (she wrote a sort of depressing story!)
Back inside the room- our Color Poems
New addition to my classroom! (post coming up next about this!)
The Teacher Wife

36 Comments

  3. I feel your cinderblock wall pain! How, seriously how, do you keep stuff up on your walls? I’m so stinkin short that when all my posters at the top of my wall fall off they stay off!

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  4. I use a lot of that sticky stuff called Stikki Wax (it comes in a little bar that you pull off or you can get it in clips). I also use hot glue. Am I supposed to use hot glue? No, but I find that no one crawls up there to check and see if it’s hot glue or not. 😉

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  5. I use Stikki Wax too. It’s the only thing that works for more than a few days! Glad I’m not the only one who sneaks hot glue up there! I’m always looking for something magical that will keep my posters up for an entire school year!

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  8. You might want to look into this stuff called Seal n Peel Caulk. I ordered it from Amazon since I live in San Diego, but I guess they use it back east to seal the windows for winter. It is amazing! I caulked up stuff all over my walls and whiteboard and then at the end of the year or whenever it just peels right off! No sign it was ever there.

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  9. Elisabeth, the Ice Cream words is an idea I found online somewhere (I can’t remember where!). Basically everyone starts off with an ice cream cone and as they pass sight word lists they earn a scoop of ice cream (3 total), whipped cream, a cherry, and sprinkles (4 or 5). The thing with it being ice cream is you tell the students that sometime during the year you will randomly have an ice cream party and whatever their cone looks like at that time is what they get. So if they only have 1 scoop, they only get one scoop. If they have three plus a cherry then they get 3 scoops plus a cherry.

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  10. I love this idea! I tried searching on the internet for the list of ice cream words but didn’t find anything. Any suggestions on where I can find the list or the template for the cute ice cream scoops and cones? I would love to this next year!
    Thanks for sharing your ideas!

    Elisabeth
    http://www.missdelk.blogspot.com

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  11. I have searched and searched for the source of the Ice Cream words on the internet with no luck. I didn’t get it off TPT so I did not pay for them. If you email me, I’ll send you the file. (squigglybee@yahoo.com)

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  12. I found the grow capsule writing but didn’t find pattens for the silly band, clock flower or ice cream on your blog or TPT. Could you share them? Thanks and great blog!!
    mcarpenter@scsk12.org

    We did silly band writing just last week, but on a plain sheet of paper! Wish I had had this!

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  18. Mrs. Magee,

    I am in love with the ice cream words bulletin board as well … am trying to figureout how to incorporate it with a behavior plan. Speking of which, I also love the behavior ladder … could you email these ideas as well? I am meeting with my grade level in a few weeks to discuss a grade level management system, and would love to make a board for the whole K grade. Am excited to hear back from you, but am not quite sure how to get my email address to you. Let me know!

    Thanks!
    Heidi

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  21. Mrs. Magee,

    Please email to me the flower clock pattern and the ice cream pattern.. I tried to download the Scottsforeman units but I don’t have the program to open it. Please email that also. I love looking at your classroom. It inspires to me to step it up in my room.
    Thank you,

    Michelle

    mcrenshaw@hancock.k12.ms.us

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  33. I would love your template for the flower clock for my sweet 1st grade friends to do! We are an arts school and those would look fabulous on our wall!!!

    Love all of your work:) 🙂 🙂 🙂

    My email is kaylaguffee@anderson5.net

    Thanks!

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    1. The flower clock template actually came from Mailbox Magazine. I can’t remember the issue. I’ll see if I can find it.

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  35. Hi! I love your flower clock, but can’t find the template you used on Teachers Pay Teachers or on your blog. Would you mind emailing me it, or directing me to the right place to find it? I would greatly appreciate it! Thank you!

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