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| Our "I can..." statements on my homemade whiteboard! At some point, I'll blog about how I made this but suffice it to say that it cost me, in total, about $25. |
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| The "front" of our room. Our "CAFE" (Reading strategies) and "VOICES" (writing strategies) were free printables from Ladybug'sTeacher Files. She is amazing! We use a bunch of her adorable printables in our room for labeling and organization. |
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| We use these sentence frames to promote high order thinking (Bloom's Taxonomy). As we teach them, we also encourage the students to use the questions with each other. |
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| Underneath our sentence frames, we post the vocabulary for each unit under each subject so that the students can use them for easy reference. Old words will be written into a dictionary for each table group to keep on hand. We plan to continue "Vocabulary Maniacs," a vocab using incentive chart, again, this year. |
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| More front of the room! |
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| Student mailboxes as students enter. My co-teacher found the idea for movable name labels (binder clips) on Pinterest and it linked to this blog. |
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| I'm sure this has been done before but, while my co-teacher and I were shopping last year, we found this lime green shoe holder at Five Below and, though we didn't have a use for it, it was only $5 so we bought it to go with our room. We took the kids photos, velcroed them onto the colored squares and attached these to cardboard sticks we had. Then, the kids can move themselves through the writing process as they go. It's a great way to formatively assess where students are. It allows us to group students based on need so that we can have guided writing groups. |
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| Another cozy reading spot! Big lots had bean bags for $17! |
