Bulletin Board

My cubbies with the name tags! :) 

My bulletin board outside of my classroom!

My wreath made the trip!!! Safe and sound

1st day of in-service

Today was our first day of in-service. We spent the day working in the classroom. Here are pictures of my classroom after working for the day.

The cubbies! I can't wait to put my cute name tags up! :)

Front of the classroom/large group area

Other side of the classroom

Listening Center

My classroom windows

My book area/puzzle area

Hall Passes

Already redid my desk area. On the wall with the boarders I will be putting up birthdays.

My bookshelf that needs a little organization. :)

My desk area/intervention area

Computer area

View from my door

I will continue to up-date pictures when I get more done! :)

Second day working in the classroom

My second day in the classroom. I worked on cleaning my cupboards. It took FOREVER!

Here is what they looked like before!

After! :)

My first layout of my desk area

Classroom

I have finally made it to Arizona! I went to my classroom for the first time today! Here is what my room looked like when I got there.

After one hour of being in the room! I recruited my dad and uncle to move all the furniture. :)

Still have a lot of work to do, but I'm very excited to get to work!

Write the Room

I found another Pinterest project! :) They are write the room sticks.  The children will pick a stick and write words around the room that start with that letter.

Materials: foam letters, large popsicle, hot glue gun, glue, and hair spray

I began by sorting all the letters out to see how many I had.  I had enough letters to make two complete alphabet sets and one number set (0-9). I haven't decided what to do with the numbers, yet. Any suggestions?!

I hot glued one letter on each stick

I decided to hair spray each letter just to make sure the glitter stayed on.  I recommend doing this outside, a lot of fumes and sticky!

The three completed sets! :) Once I start using them I plan on developing a sheet to go with these for the children to record their words on. Check back soon!

Change on Pinterest Project

Well, I have already decided to change my crayon wreath! :) I was at Wal-Mart and I found scrap booking stickers I liked better. Here is my "new" crayon wreath.

Pinterest Project

I am very excited for my first year teaching! :) I am in the process of packing all my things to leave the wonderful state of WI, to move to AZ! I will be teaching kindergarten at a charter school. I will be working with an amazing group of people I graduated college with! We will have one amazing "KinderTeam!"  I have been so busy packing all of my things that I wanted to take a little break and make something fun and excited for my classroom.  I got this idea off of Pinterest.....like everything else I do. ;) Here are some step by step pictures of what I did.

Crayon Wreath

Materials

-12" embroidery ring (I have a 10" in the picture-Wal-Mart didn't have a 12")

-64 count box of crayons

-hot glue gun with glue sticks

-ribbon (not pictured)

-foam letters, or whatever you choose (not pictured)

-anything you would like to attach (not pictured)

Start with the rings evenly spaced apart. Then attach four crayons, try to have them evenly spaced, I had to redo a couple. :) I had the "C" on Crayola lined up with the outside ring for spacing. Make sure all of your crayons are facing up the same way. :) After I had the four on, I put four more in between those, just so I had smaller areas to try and keep lined up. If you make a mistake the crayons are pretty to pop off, you just have to remove the glue.

Half way done! :)

The completed circle of crayons. 

I made a bow out of the ribbon and hot glued on to the top of the circle. Next, I used foam sticker letters from Wal-Mart. I lined them up where they looked good.  Then I removed the back and hot glued them on.

The final product! :) I attached a ribbon on top (through the opening on the embroidery ring) to hang it up.  Then I hot glued on a couple 2 dimensional scrap booking decorations. I can't wait to hang it up in my new classroom! It just has to make the trip from WI to AZ! :) I'll make sure to post a picture of it when it is hung up in my classroom!