Saturday, August 24, 2013

And the School Room Comes Together...

In the past week, I've been prepping my school room. Last night I wrote in my journal, "Worked on schoolroom (cool!)" Then I looked back to see what I wrote a year ago. It read, "Decorated school room more. Looks cool."  Notice a pattern here? (And perhaps a lack of creativity in adjectives?)

When I say "decorated" it's not really accurate. I put up the essentials. Organize. But leave the wall space for student work. After all, that's what the room is for, right? STUDENTS! And their WORK! :)

Over the years, I've taught in both public school classrooms and in rooms in my house (homeschool), but in the last year, I've taken over an outbuilding to contain my ever-expanding homeschool community classes. The large cabinet, a gift from my sister-in-law, enables me to finally contain all my teaching junk treasures. (At least the materials I need access to in this space. The rest spills into my office and into storage in our barn!) The cabinet will soon fill; I'm slowly moving supplies from one location to another. Visit the room:




Although I'm excited about everything I'll be teaching, in the last couple days I've focused mostly on getting ready to teach fifth grade Bridges Second Edition. My Number Corner area is ready to go with both the Calendar Collector (volume--uses cubes) and Calendar Grid (fractions & decimals--cards are turned over right now--we'll collect data in Sept) on display.

Number Corner

Calendar Collector--we'll be making models with cubes (not those shown--harder!) and calculating volume

Calendar Grid

September, here we come!!

12 comments:

  1. That room looks like a dream come true. Excuse me while I take a moment to envy. If I move, will you hire me?

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    1. I'd hire you so fast your head would spin! :) Let me know when you're moving.

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  2. Cool! :-)
    Looking forward to hearing about the lessons learned in that room.

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  3. 5 bow ties! Great looking and inviting room. Happy teaching!

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    1. 5 bow ties...COOL! (There's that adjective again.) Thank you! ;)

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  4. Ahhhh, I think I am a bit jealous, ;-) I would LOVE to have a classroom. Our couch and kitchen table are my kids classroom and my fridge is my bulletin board. But your space is totally "cool" Cindy!

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    1. Our couch and kitchen table are classroom for my homeschooler. I just use this space when I teach a bunch. :) But it's pretty fun, I admit! ;)

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  5. The classroom looks great! Organized with all the essentials you really need. I am always impressed with the frilly, coordinated classroom pictures, but they are more than you need sometimes.
    ~Lucy
    Kids Math Teacher

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    1. No frills here. I love all the coordinated stuff I see on Pinterest. But I really want the room to be a product of the kids, so I can't really do it for them. ;) And thanks!

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  6. Looks great! I love organized spaces. :)

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  7. I've been dreaming about having my own homeschool room for ages. How cool that you have one!!

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