iSpy bags

I’m hooked!  On Pinetrest that is!  I found this idea a few days ago and had the materials (mostly) laying around. I found this great tutorial here and l decided that because I had most of the materials already laying around, I could make some of these.  I went to Jo-Ann’s and looked for things [...]

Sometimes…

all you have to do is ask!  I was running out of new ideas to put in my Magnet Work Station area and I told my kiddos this one day.  I told them I saw they were getting bored with what was there and I didn’t have any ideas as to what I could put [...]

Living Things

I’ve just updated our front facing bookcase with books that go along with our new IB unit (Sharing the Planet).  We will be inquiring about living and nonliving things, their characteristics, and how people, plants and, animals interact with one another.  Here are some pictures showing how I store and share these books with my [...]

My New Bookcase!

Okay, so the bookcase itself isn’t new and neither are the books on it, but the way it is set up sure is!  My school is currently an IB (International Baccalaureate) candidate school, so we think in terms of the six IB themes instead of our old themes.  I used to have them filed by [...]

Moving things around…

I’ve recently moved some things around in my classroom to make room for new things on the walls.  I’ve moved my name wall and our anchor charts.  Here are some pictures showing what they look like now: I’m excited because I was able to free up some space on our front board so that I [...]

Organizing Supplies

I had a question about what goes in the shelves that I keep at the end of each of the tables: In the top part of the shelf, we store our paper baskets and crayon baskets.  The crayon basket sits inside the paper basket. The second part of the shelf down, we store our binders. [...]

The House and the loft

I get asked a lot about the playhouse and loft in my classroom.  It was there when I moved in and through research, I’ve found out that it’s been there for about 30 years.  I took a bunch of pictures inside, outside, and up in the loft:   I got a new lamp from IKEA [...]

More classroom pictures 2011-2012

I was in my room today working on hauling my new IKEA stuff around.  Here are a bunch of pictures that I took today and I’ll write below them what they are if needed.   I took these with my iPod Touch, so they might be a little blurry–left my camera at home!   The [...]

2011-2012 Classroom Pictures (after)

Here are the “after” pictures.  This is what I was able to get done in 1 day. This is my Library Work Station.  I’ve made the space a little bigger this year and have taken out the round table that used to be in here.  Tomorrow, on my IKEA run, I’m going to pick up [...]

2011-2012 Classroom Pictures

I’ve been in at school working all this week to get things set up in my classroom again.  Here are the before pictures.  Our housekeepers do an amazing job of cleaning everything during the summer for us, and I’m so happy that they leave me to put it back–I love walking into a blank canvas [...]