Another Daily 5 Poster

Here is another poster I made to help my students remember what we are learning during the Daily 5 lessons.  These posters really help make our classroom library look more welcoming and they are a good reminder to the students. 

Here is the poster for the I Pick lesson on helping students choose good-fit books.  And it matches our jungle theme in our classroom!

Jungle Word Cards

I just wanted to say thank you so much to Erin over at Creating and Teaching for making Jungle Word Cards for my word wall and posting them for free!  I can not wait to use these in my classroom, they are going to go great with the rest of the classroom and our jungle theme.

If you are using a jungle theme in your classroom or looking for a cool cards for your word wall I would head on over the Creating and Teaching, she has a lot of great ideas!

Math Box & Book Box Labels

I have started to make labels for everything in my classroom and I thought that I would share them with you.  These are labels that I will be using for my math boxes and reading book boxes.  I am keeping with the jungle theme and I have added a monkey to the math box labels and a monkey to the book box labels.

 

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Welcome to the Jungle!

Well it is official, I have started working in my classroom and WOW, I have a lot of work to do.  I was thankful that I had my sister Katie come with me and help begin to organize my classroom.  I moved classrooms again this year so this is the third time I am setting up my classroom in 3 years.  It took us all Friday morning just to organize my Guided Reading books, but on the bright side, that was probably one of my biggest jobs and now its done.  While organizing the books, we finally decided on a theme for my classroom this year, Jungle and I am so excited.

I have never had a theme for my classroom before and I am excited to have a theme for the whole school year.  I plan on incorporating the Jungle theme into as many things as possible as I prepare for the school year and have already started today with my Summer Welcome Letter and Student Information Sheet which I will post later.  Now I just have to decide on how to decorate the classroom as a jungle without being too overwhelming and overstimulating for the students, especially since I have a student with autism on my caseload.  I will post before and after pictures of my classroom and hopefully you will not even be able to recognize that it was the same room.