My Classroom!

On Tuesday we got the keys to our classroom. I am in room F in the kindergarten wing of school. With me is the nursery, the toddler, the preschool 1, preschool 2, and kindergarten. However, they are called backwards here. Here's the explanation: I am teaching preprimaria (preschool), but there is a kinder 1 (4 year olds) and kinder 2 (5 year olds).

Here is what my classroom looked like:

This is what it looks like now. Keep in mind that everything that is in here was done in three days and the majority of it was brought in my suitcases from Iowa. I had awesome cooperating teachers while I did my student teaching and I have used a lot of their ideas or things that I made or did in their classrooms in mine as well!

This is the star of the week and the happy birthday bulletin board from my classroom :-)

This is the calendar, weather, days of school and my pointer part of the classroom which is next to the chalk board and in front of the carpet.

We can do it! This is the behavior system I am going to use in the classroom. Each students' name is writing on an "I think I can" post-it and behind it is a green, yellow, red, blue piece of paper which the studetns will have to turn based on how they have behaved that day. The kids will also take home a calendar to their parents with the appropriate color for each day on it.

Over in the corner is our jobs chart, the yellow board has three special student rewards which I will change each week. The big red one will have student work displayed on it once we create some :-) The bookshelves have some of my manipulatives including really old puzzles, some fun art materials, math counters, and a big book :-)

This is my big carpet for the students to sit on and share ideas. Along the wall is the list of centers and where they are throughout the room. Above the windows are numbers 1-20. In the windowsill are 6 puppets that I found in my closet!