My Classroom

As promised, I am finally putting up pictures of my classroom. It has been a work in progress for about 3 weeks to get it all cleaned, organized and decorated! I am glad that it is done and I'm going to try and rest this weekend to get ready for the first day on Monday. I am expecting 25 kids - 12 in the morning class and 13 in the afternoon class! Our school wide theme this year is Luau/Ocean. As you can see, I went more on the ocean side of the theme.

This is the bulletin board in the hallway beside my room. It says Dive into PreK and the divers have the kids names on them. Last night at Meet the Teacher, Joey took pictures of the kids while I was busy meeting them all. He took a picture of them with goggles on that I am going to print and glue on the face of the divers.

These are the glass doors that go to the PreK atrium, lobby whatever you wish to call it. Joey did a great job painting the doors for me with window chalk. The starfish are construction paper with the students name on it. Thursday of the first week we are going to glue wild rice on them to make them look more like real starfish!

The next few pictures are of the lobby area. Joey helped me a lot in this area. I did not take a picture of the ceiling, but there are fish hanging down.

Room 1: The carpet and tables classroom

This is the job chart. It says "Treasured Jobs" The treasure chest have the names of the jobs on them and I have fish and crabs that are wearing jewels with the kids names on them to put on the jobs.

Calendar and Morning Message board. The green bulletin board is blank because I never found my pictures and title for the Meet Mrs. Roberts board that I usually put up at the first of the year. So, I wait until we are ready for something else there!

I used Hula skirt for curtains.

Room 2: The Center Room- I am really glad this room is done. I did a lot of rearranging and organizing in this room. As the title indicates, this is were students do different centers: blocks, housekeeping, computer, library, painting, etc.

This is my newest thing that I am so proud of even though I didn't come up with the idea. I was trying to figure out a way to make the books stand up in the book shelf so the kids could see the front of the books. I remembered seeing in a magazine or online that a teacher used rain gutters to put the books in. So, I went to McCoys and had a rain gutter cut to fit in the shelf. I hot glued it in the shelf and it was done! It worked wonderfully!!

I am sure that is more pictures than most of you were looking for, but I am just so excited to be finished that I had to share. Plus, it was a nice break for me this afternoon to take all the pictures. Hope you all have a great weekend and those of you who are teachers or students are gearing up for a great school year!