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!!