Finally Some Pictures of My Room

Let me tell you it has been a very,very bsy week! Besides being the First Week of School, we had to prepare our classrooms on Friday for the storm that we will be getting tomorrow. Ugh! Can you imagine having to cover everything up, moving many of your things away from windows, and getting everything off of the floor? Also, hoping that the roof doesn't leak and ruin your decorations! (Man, am I stressing about that one.) I tried to snap some pictures of the room before leaving on Friday, but many of them didn't come out very well. I will definitely be taking better ones on Tuesday (School was cancelled on Monday), when we return.

Well, my theme this year is "The Great Outdoors". A lot of my color scheme is Green and Brown.

This is the view from the front door. Please pardon some of the mess as I was packing up my room for the storm.

 

When the students walk in they place the backpacks on hooks to the left and then I have my whole group and classroom library. Straight ahead you see my computers, listening station, and one of the trees I made. (If you notice, I already had begun putting plastic over my computers and boxing up journals, so they wouldn't get damaged.) Here is a close-up of the tree. 

I have a squirrel on one of the branches, but I think he is to small so I will be making a bigger one this weekend.

 

Above my computers and to the left of the tree is a bulletin board to display student work. I placed some work from my First and Second Grade students. We read "David Goes to Schoo" and they had to write about how David could be a better student. They came out super cute.

 

 



To the right of the tree and above my whole group area is my word wall and station assignment boards for my students. Along with my classroom library.

 

I feel like my word wall needs a little more pizazz so I am making some things to go on the corners. This will be a project for tomorrow, while we are shut in due to the storm.

 

We will be starting stations this week and these bushes will have berries with the students names on them. Kindergarten will be on strawberries, First Grade on blueberries, and Second Grade on Blackberries. My students go to 6 stations each week: Computer, Teacher, Textbook, Word Study, Reading and Listening, and Challenge.

 

 

Here is a picture of my behavior clip chart. We have 7 colors. The students start on Green each day and either clip up or down based on their behavior.

 

My Class Jobs display is next to my behavior chart on the door to the alcove/closet space that I share with my writing teacher.

 



 

This is looking a little to the left from the front door. I began moving things away from the window area before taking this picture.

 

 

This is another tree located in the back of my room next to the bathroom. I also placed a pocket chart there for Word Study Station and for students to do sequencing activities. (Pardon the crates as I moved them off of a shelf that had to be moved away from the window. They aren't staying there.)

Here is my Birthday Display. The picture doesn't do it justice. They are fireflies in jars for each month. I'll definitely have to get a better picture for ya'll.

 

This is the last picture I have for tonight. This is looking from my bathroom to the front of the room. I will be taking more pictures of my room when I return. My alphabet that I made came out blurry. I can't wait to show ya'll the rest.

 

 

I hope everyone enjoys the rest of their weekend and those who are going to be affected by the storm stays safe. I'm hoping we don't loss power as I have several units that I want to work on. 

 



Happy, Happy Birthday

So tomorrow, August 17th, is my birthday and it is also Meet 'N Greet at my school. I have been working very hard on my classroom all week and can't wait to reveal it to ya'll this weekend. Anyone want to guess what my theme is this year? (Lori, you can't tell since you have seen it.)

Eventhough my classroom is ready to go for tomorrow morning, I still feel like I need to do more or that something isn't done. All afternoon, I have been adding things to a list to do in the morning or after Meet 'N Greet for the first day of school. Anyone else do this or feel this way?

Anywho to celebrate my birthday, I have decided to have a sale in my TPT store for the weekend. You can take advantage of a 20% off savings on my items. Just click below.

Don't forget to come back and check out my pictures of my classroom reveal! Also, leave a comment as to what you think my theme is. I would love to hear everyone's guesses.

Back to School Sale and Classroom Before Pics

So, the time has come for many of us to head Back to School. I have been super busy this past week with trainings. I was able to get into my room and place the furniture, for the most part, where I wanted it. Here are some pictures. Pardon the mess.

This is the view to the direct left when entering the room.

This is looking towards the left but looking towards my guided reading area. See the pink bulletin board. That's where my guided reading area will be. (The pink paper will be coming down.)

This is looking straight ahead from the doorway. This will be whole group and my classroom library area this year.

On Tuesday, I trained all the new teachers at our school on Project CHILD, which is the delivery method we use. The remainder of the week, we had trainings for our Regional area for our Charter School company. They did provide us with a wonderful luncheon on Friday at a hotel, where our school won 3 awards. I also won a giftcard to Walmart. Whoop whoop! I never win anything so this was a shocker.

This week will be a week of finishing the classroom and preping for the first week of school. We have Meet 'N Greet on Friday. I can't wait to reveal my new classroom theme. I am super excited and have been finishing up laminating and cutting out my decor today. I will post after pictures of what my class looks like for all of you.

As you may already know, TPT will be having a Back to School sale on August 12-13th. I will be offering 20% off my items, plus TPT will be giving an extra 10% off when you use the coupon code: BtS12. Check out my items along with many other sellers. Click below to go to my store.

Have a nice weekend and I can't to show you my room this week!

Go For The Gold!

How many of you are excited for the Olympics? I sure am! I am even more excited because I actually know someone who is competing in the Olympics. A High School classmate of mine will be competing for the gold in Beach Volleyball.

That's him, Steve Grotowski! Eventhough, he will be playing for Great Britian (his home country). I will still be rooting for him. Go for the Gold, Steve!

In honor of the start of the Olympics, I will be having a sale. Click on the picture below to go to my TPT store.



Also, I will be giving away either my Back to School: School Bus Craftivity or my Back to School: Pencil Person Craftivity to the first 3 people who can guess my Top 3 Olympic Events I like to watch. Ready, Set, Comment! : )

My First Blog Award

Wow, I am completly honored to have be chosen for the One Lovely Blog Award from Grade 2 Happenings. She is a very creative teacher and you need to stop by and follow her blog.

Rules of acceptance
*Thank the person/people who nominated you and link back to them in your post.
*Share seven possibly unkown things about yourself.
*Nominate fifteen or so bloggers that you admire.
*Contact the chosen bloggers to let them know and link back to them.

Seven possibly unkown things about me
1. I love the show "Duck Dynasty". The men on the show crack me up and remind me so much of my dad.
2. I secretly love the smell of new crayons and can only use the crayons when they first come out of the box. (That's when they do the best coloring.)
3. I am a Disneyaholic. I would go there every month if I could.
4. I was born during a Tropical Storm.
5. I love Slurpees.
6. I am a couponer, not like those people on "Extreme Couponing" but I do have a stockpile.
7. I am a yard sale fanatic. Recently, I got my little girl a Pink Radio Flyer Vespa Scooter for $5. It was brand new, when I got home I looked it up online and found out it costs $65 brand new.

Blogs I Nominate
1. Kindergarten Smiles
2. One Extra Degree
3. First Grade Fever
4. Busy Bees
5. Mrs. Lee's Kindergarten
6. Kreative in Kinder
7. Finally in First
8. First Grade Blue Skies
9. Miss Kindergarten
10. Heather's Heart
11. Little Literacy Learners
12. First Grade and Fabulous
13. Mrs Williamson's Kinders
14. Tales of a Teacherista
15. First Grade Garden



Pencil Person Craftivity

Well, I have been super busy over the past few weeks and haven't had much time to blog. I can tell you that since my last post, I have found my jump drive. (Little B hid it under the couch. Love that little stinker.) Since losing my jump drive, my husband decided to purchase me an external hard drive for my laptop. (Love you honey.) Besides that I have been super busy completing orders for my hairbow business, planning Common Core lessons for my team, and getting our condo ready to be put on the market. We need a bigger place and want a house with a yard for B maybe even a pool for all those hot Florida days.

In the mean time, I wanted to share with you this very cute Pencil Person Craftivity I made for my students today. I created a boy and girl version.

Aren't they cute? I have also included it in my Back To School Activity Unit. The unit includes 8 activities.

Let me know what you think!

What would you do?!?!

So it has been an eventful week for me. We returned home from Tennessee to my little girl having a fever. We still have no clue what caused the fever. I thought it was molars coming in but still haven't seen any signs. So with her being sick, I wasn't able to attend the Common Core Conference like I originally was scheduled to do. I found a replacement for me since my school was paying for it. I happened to get a friend of mine who was just announced the Principal for another school within out Charter School Company. I'm very thankful that she'll be able to share the information for me.

On Saturday, we had a very exciting day! We celebrated our daugther's 2nd Birthday! I made many of the decorations for the party and she enjoyed it with several of her little "buddies". She's calls them her buddies and we have caught her several times going around the house calling out "Oh, buddies! Where are you?" Haha! Here are some pictures from before everyone arrived and a few others.

That's B with her Best Friend!

So now I know you are all wondering about the title, right? Well, I lost something and can't find it anywhere! I don't know if B got ahold of it and hid it. I've asked her and trying to get an anwser from a 2 year old is impossible. What is it that I lost you might be wondering? Well........




I happened to have lost my jump drive. Not just any old jump drive. This happens to be the jump drive that I save all of the things I make for my classroom on it. I have been freaking out for several days now. I had a bunch of new things I made and wanted to share with all of you on there, but now have to start all over. So, the question is: What wonder you do in this situation?

Since I am starting all over with several of the things I have already created, here are a few of the new things. (More to come once I remake them or find my jump drive.) Click on the images to check them out.

Initial Sounds Bingo

Crayons Emergent Reader

I hope everyone has a Happy Fourth of July!

There's No Place Like Home...and a Giveaway

So I am home from vacation and was suppose to be going to a Common Core Workshop for the next 4 days, however plans have changed. On our drive home yesterday, my little girl became very cranky. I checked her and noticed that she had a fever. Oh boy, that was long drive from Georgia to South Florida! When we finally got in, I was able to take her temperature which fluctuated between 100 and 101. So, I'm staying home with her and hopefully can get things done around the house and finish up some units that I started on my trip. (We'll see how that goes.)

Anyways, a former co-worker of mine who just moved back to Buffalo is having a 100+ Follower Giveaway. Hello, Cindy! (Insert wave here.) Check out her blog Primary Reading Party.

 I have donated my unit of Homophones for her Giveaway. You can also check it out in my TPT store by clicking below.

Have a Marvelous Monday everyone!

And the Winner is....

Thank you to everyone who entered the Gumball Sight Word Bingo Giveaway! And the winner is....

Lori Archer! I will be contacting you with your prize.

1 Day left for the Giveaway

I'm stopping by to quickly remind everyone that tomorrow is the last day to enter for the giveaway. Check out my post below to enter. I'm currently enjoying my time in the Smoky Mountains. Tomorrow, I'll be heading over to Knoxville. Woohoo! Go Vols!

100 Followers Giveaway

Woohoo! I have made it to 100 followers. Thank you for all of you who have stopped by. I am going to quickly write this post as I get ready to leave for Tennessee in the morning. Yippee! (I may or my not be able to update while I am up there.)

Since I have 100 followers, I've decided to giveaway one of my newest items that I created. It is a Sight Word Bingo game. There are 5 different levels of sight word sets. Each set includes 10 playing mats along with calling cards. Each set is color coded for easy identification.  Here are some pictures of a completed set that I made this week for my classroom.

 

I will be giving away the item to one lucky follower. To enter simply enter below. Click on my preview below to take you to my TPT store.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Enjoy! I can't wait to hear from everyone!

Hurry....Pete Rocks Giveaway

Over at Heather's Heart, there is an awesome "Pete the Cat" Giveaway. Head over there and check it out. I know I have already entered and so should you. There are so many literacy activities up for the giveaway by amazing teachers.

You have until next Wednesday at 11:59pm to enter.