How did it get to be that time again?! I have to admit this is my favourite part of the start of the school year, searching for cute stuff & ideas for my room. The actual setting up, not so much. I'm not so much a theme person more a anything cute person, so my room is always a mishmash of stuff. This year I'm going towards a pencil theme with a fair bit of Minions (click here for my Minion post & freebie from last year) & some other random stuff thrown in. Plus, be prepared for this shocker...... I'm a teacher who does not like laminating *Gasp* Yeah, I hate it.
After that revelation, here is a list of random things that I will be including in my 2016 classroom:
I have already purchased these gorgeous pencil containers. Ok, yes I do already own about 20 different containers but none that are PENCIL shaped, so there (said to my 2015 class who were always on my case about how much stuff I kept buying. The cuties).
I already have these crayon's ready for my door display to kind of match my pencil containers but I haven't laminated the wonderful things yet (sigh). I think we'll read the Day the Crayons Quit in the first week, even though I'm teaching Grade 3/4 a refresher of colouring never hurts. I'm you'd like a free copy of the door display click here to download.
Read & the Force Will be With You Bunting for my reading corner. It's a great freebie from Mrs O Reads Books (I completely stole this idea from a friend who is having a Star Wars theme, too cute not to include).
I want to buy coloured bracelets for group sorting like these ones Christi has used from Mrs Fultz's Corner.
I love this tree for our reading area from A Batty Life but not sure if we'll have space for it.
I've been meaning to add the vertical & horizontal labels for a while as I get it confused myself (yeah, I just admitted to that) like this one from The Applicious Teacher.
I love this "Be" display. It might be a good idea for a first week of school activity.
I'm sure there will be more added to this list soon. Stay tune for another post & more freebies.
We have been all about positive attitudes and developing a growth Mindset in our classroom this term. There are plenty of fantastic books (like this one from Carol Dweck), resources and Pinterest boards on this topic which I have used plenty of while understanding the differences between a fixed and growth mindset.
My new wall display is having a positive impact on my students attitudes and has been a great visual to remind them how to change their thinking.
I used this fantastic freebie by The Zone for my main display and added these Growth Mindset Posters to our quotes wall (above the display board) which our another great freebie from Tales From Miss D.
If you have any more ideas about developing a growth mindset I'd love to hear about them! Just leave me some comment love below,
As the beginning of our new school year is only 3 weeks away I need to set up my new classroom. I both love and hate this part as I normally have too many ideas, or not enough!
I've spent this morning flicking back through some old photos to get an idea or what I might do this year and thought I'd share a few of my favourites with you.
Last year I used clipboards for my changing display. Each child had their own clipboard with their name underneath. The kids and I both loved this as it was easy to add up new sheets or art works. My hubs nailed the boards onto the wall at a kid-reachable height.
I have always used material in the past for backgrounds for display areas as my old rooms have had either brown or grey carpet for pin boards. Real pretty. I have also used cardboard but the material is brighter, quicker to put up and can be washed at the end of the year.
My new classroom door may be in too sunny of an area to have a 'Welcome' display but I am thinking I might put one up and see how it goes.
All I could find of my previous door displays was this one, but I have tried a heap of different ones in the post pre-blogging years. Wish I had taken pics! If you are looking for more display ideas take a peek at my Displays Pinterest board.
Happy Halloween Friday! We have had another epic week. Very glad it is Friday! Linking up with Kasey from Doodlebugs to share what we've been up to.
This week we have studied spiders, if you couldn't tell :) The kids loved our spider web carpet which I made Monday with some masking tape, inspired by my friend Stef from Miss Galvin Learns.
We made these super easy Spider hats. I found the idea via Pinterest from MamaOT.
A gorgeous class Mum made these delicious spider cupcakes and these super fun and messy popstick spider webs with pompom siders.
We also made Frankenstein's from Deanna's Halloween unit which I found through Mel's post.
Plus we made our My Little Monster books. Just click on the link or pic to download.
Wishing you a fab weekend,
After a lot of trial and error over the years, I am finally happy with and loving the Focus wall in my classroom this year. Each week I update this to show our Literacy focus for the week.
At the moment I am including:
-Our Words of the week from Mel's {From the Pond} Ultimate Sight Words Program
-Spaceman poster freebie from Brooke {Teachable Moments}
-Word Family poster (we are working on one each week)
-Write Your Name poster which is also a freebie from here
Our 'word' swatters are hanging up on the sides for easy access.
We also have our WALT {We Are Learning To} Wall in the foyer. My aim is to post about this soon! If you have another great idea for a focus wall please leave me the link below,
We have had another super busy week! Linking up with Doodle Bugs to share the love.
This week we have explored Shape by making Shape Pizzas.
We planted some super cute succulents at home in boxes made from pallets. Lucky my hubby is handy.
We had the 2015 Information Session last night. I stayed at work until it started at 7.30pm to finally get some displays up & some laminating done.
I've been enjoying the last days of Autumn with some great morning walks around the lake.
We rocked assembly today! A performance of 'A sailor went to sea sea sea' with panache (and one poppet in hysterical tears). They were so cute!
Happy weekend,
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