Classroom Tour

 Today I am going to give you a fun little tour of my classroom. Last August thanks to budget negotiations, I wasn't actually "officially" informed that I was hired until the third day of school (yikes!). Needless to say, there was a little bit of wing and a prayer scrambling for this perfectionist who wanted her room to be fun and inviting. As a brand new college graduate, my head was stuffed with lesson plans and Bloom's Taxonomy.....and a little lacking in decorating experience. Thankfully, I have some awesome fellow teachers at my school who offered lots of assistance.

The first big challenge for me was picking a theme. I wandered through my local Schoolbox and found some adorable bulletin board star borders. One thing followed another and I wound up with a Hollywood Star themed room. It's not extravagant, but it's adorable and it made me happy. These pictures were taken at the beginning of the year. By May I will admit it was slightly less tidy and the walls were much more crammed with fun things! Here are a few of my favorite parts:

 

We started out the year in pods.

My hall display wall!

 I use clothespins with the students' names and lunch numbers for the first few weeks of school. They stop by the "concession stand" to retrieve their clip and pin it to their shirt. It helps speed up the lunch line...and hey, when you have a twenty-five minute lunch, streamlining processes is a must!

You can get these adorable plastic popcorn boxes at the Dollar Store! I use the boxes for fresh and broken pencils. Works like a charm.

. My word wall, pre-words. It gets so full by the end of the year, that the t's start sneaking in under s, r, u, AND v....

And one of my favorite little touches, my red curtain over the tv. We don't have Promethean Boards in our first grade yet, so this is where the action happens. This simple little curtain took about sixteen million failures and quite a lot of string and prayers to make it stay in a cute arrangement. I love it! 

 I hope you enjoyed the tour! Today's agenda? Moving all of this cute stuff into a new classroom two doors down. Wish me luck!

Signing out,

Emily