Classroom update

The blog world has only seen my classroom in beginning-of-the-year set-up phase. I decided I would do an update on how parts of my classroom look now. I've actually been wanting to for some time, but would decide against it because the room wasn't as clean as I would like. Well, this is real life, 10 and 11 year olds rummage through my things, knock my stuff over, and I get stuff out and forget to put it away until it's time to get ready for the next unit. Heck, when I do put stuff "away" half the time it's thrown into a random basket and shoved to the back of my cabinets.

So real life classroom...

The Word Wall without words

 And now with words. Words on top of letters are high frequency words, words below letters are content words (math in my case)

PS that's not how I usually keep my desks. We are doing a review tomorrow and I like to change it up for a day or so. 

This is a before picture of my Writing wall, before I added the cardstock for displaying student work

 With Student work

I don't like to constantly staple papers up, so I stapled cardstock to the wall and I can change out the work easily by placing a paper clip on the card stock. It does a pretty good job holding the kids' work. 

Before I knew my students' names, this was my Station Area

 Stations. Blue squares are my kids, green is 2nd rotation, purple is 3rd rotation. The squares have magnets on them so I can switch up the groups whenever necessary. Every day I rotate the numbers down. Students go to the station # wherever their name is. They take out the drawers and go to a designated area.

 Shot I had of my back counter before getting supplie from kids

 What my counter and shelves look like now. They filled up quickly. Students access this area just as much as I do. The crate and magazine holders to the left hold writing notebooks and folders. The crates (turned on their sides) on the right hold each rotations Math Journal. as you can see things just get left on the counter.

Also take note that my round table is no longer of there. I moved it next to my desk area, but forgot to take a pic. That may have to be it's own post. 

Nice job making it to the end! I hope you enjoyed "real" pictures of my room. It is definitely my second home. :)