My Classroom

The front of my classroom. My kids work best at a table with their own personal space, so I moved my carpet to the back of the room and my small group table to the front of the room! On the left is my calendar/words of the week/math vocabulary bulletin board and my organizational system for student binders and teaching materials for the day. On the left is my whiteboard with Wilson Reading letter cards and our word family of the week.

Doesn't every classroom have a zen garden tent?? My para and one of my students who needed a quiet space to "zen out" built this corner of my classroom around my Fix-It table out of stuff they found in my closet. We have speakers piping in zen music from Pandora, an actual sand zen garden, and my cool down corner bin. My students also can work at the Fix-It table when they need time to work by themselves away from other students before coming back to the whole group at the front of the room. The Fix-It table and zen garden are situated right next to my para's desk so the student can't see other students, but can still receive help when needed. It may be ugly, but it works so well for some of my kids!

My lockers and word wall. I have 4 kids and 25 lockers so my kids get to spread out.

This is where we keep student supplies, my "may do" work choice bins, my math tools, and our mailboxes.

My reading nook. :) I used to have a pretty rug in this corner, but it went MIA while I was out on leave...so now we have a Five Below yoga mat!

My classroom would explode without our visual schedule and our Top Banana chart. Our "Top Banana" rotates each day and the person on top is our special helper for the day.

So I might have a little bit (well A LOT) of OCD. These two pictures are of my desk area. I love organization. Each student in my class gets a bin on my cart and that's where I keep my IEP paperwork, contact from parents, work samples, etc. In the red folders on the standing tray I keep my work for the week sorted by the days of the week.

We wouldn't be a behavior support classroom without some coping strategy visuals!

This is how I organize my students' math journals, their reading binders, and my daily Math and ELA papers/teaching resources.

A closer view of my May Do ELA choice bins. My students get to pick from word work, word family, and phonics activities during their May Do choice block. On the right is my math tool bin and hundred charts.

 My standards, essential questions, and vocabulary bulletin board.

 Our word family pond of word families we already know.

The behavior corner of my blackboard. The empty spots have been digitally cleared to remove students' names. The pink whiteboard holds our daily social skill goal. At the bottom are our May Do Math and ELA choice boards, and above those are break cards.