What a difference a day makes!

Okay, or two days!  The custodians/housekeepers are busy at work cleaning our carpets and tile so they are all ready for next year (which is actually later this year–never understood that, ).  Here are some pictures of my room today when I went in to take my son to a special summer gym class that [...]

New Classroom Layout

I like reading “teacher books” because it gets the gears in my mind turning like crazy!  As I was reading The Daily Five, I kept thinking about making my classroom more conducive to Reading to Self.  It led me to thinking about when we are “doing” Literacy Work Stations–the children at the Library WS were [...]

Some more new pictures

Here are pictures from my second day putting my classroom back together. This is my desk area–notice how it’s still clean! My small group table covered in things I need to do/use before school starts! The beginnings of my Science Work Station/Science Center. This is an outside look at my playhouse area.  This was already [...]

2010-2011 Classroom Layout

Here is a floor plan of my classroom layout: classroomlayout1011 Click to open. Kristen

2010-2011 Classroom Pictures

Hello Everyone! I was hard at work at school today arranging my classroom in a new, totally different way.  After re-reading Literacy Work Stations, some changes were needed and the most important thing I did today was add a Science Work Station.  Can you believe it?? Me, All things Science Girl, did NOT have a [...]

Updated Literacy Work Stations

Hi All! Hope your summer vacations are all going well!  I decided to re-read Debbie Diller’s Literacy Work Stations: Making Centers Work book, just to refresh my memory and I have a few updates I will share with you.  Please also know that I am changing much of the way my classroom is set up [...]