Teacher Week 15- Classroom Tour

I am so excited to link up with Bloghoppin for #teacherweek15 classroom tour! I love that this also goes with Lucky Little Learners and Schroder's Shenanagan #2getherwearebetter classroom reveal!! I have loved looking at so many AMAZING classrooms!! Here is a tour of my kindergarten room!!!

These are our hallway bulletin boards. My kiddos love the #firstday board!

This is the view from my front door:) I painted my classroom the Saturday after school got out last year. I wanted and needed a change! I love how my classroom looks with a new coat of paint! This color is so calming and I love spending my days in this room! I am  alos in love with my inspirational quotes by the Bubbly Blonde on the back wall.

This is the view from the back door. Aren't those Pete the cats precious hanging above our whole group area? I love my octagon tables!!!!

Our daily schedule

These scoop chairs from Walmart are perfect for my kinders! They love to sit in these will they work on the tablets. I have a few little friends who like to lay down and use Clifford as a pillow:)

The sensory tub has been such a wonderful center this year for my kiddos! They love it and ask everyday if they are going to that centers. I found these pillows at Walmart to cozy up this area!

Small group area as well as my teacher desk! 

These quotes hang on the cabinet behind my teacher table. I was born to be a teacher and my goal is to be a champion for each one of my kiddos past, present and future!

This small table is the mirror table. We have several centers that use mirrors. Right now we are working with mirrored letters and we will do sight words and CVC words as the year progresses.  I find the mirrors work better if they are taped to the table ha!!

Computer center

Whole Group area!! I got my carpet at Southeastern Salvage and love it! It is perfect for my classroom, not to big and not to little!

My Whole Brain teaching call back posters and my super cute lantern lights thanks to Big Lots for that find!

Our family rules and pocket chart for practice cards:) WBT style

Our alphabet and numbers! Don't you love Creative Clips clipart!!

Our reading buddies!!

LAst year I din't have a lot of space for anchor charts to hang so I purposed to make spaces for them this year!! 

Number anchor charts

Special schedule and alphabet animal stickers I found at Micheals!

Literacy center rotation chart

Math center rotation chart

Lunch choices chart can you tell I love packet charts!

Our SIW!! My kiddos are rocking kindergarten! Look at those stars!

My mini fridge stocked with Diet Pepsi! It helps me make it through the day! HEHEHE

We do community supplies and these caddies and table baskets work great!

Thank you so much for stopping by to take my classroom tour!! Head over to Lucky Little Learners. Schroeder's Shenanigans and Bloghoppin to link up and join in on the fun!!

Spotlight Saturday 7-11-15

Is anyone else's summer flying by at lightening speed? Can it really be Saturday again?!?!?!?!?!? Well since it is Saturday it is time for one of my favorite link ups with Erin from Kindergarten Dragon. Spotlight Saturday is a fun linky that lets us do a little show and tell about some of our favorite teachers and products!

This week I am going to spotlight Alisha from The Bubbly Blonde Teacher! I love her stuff on TPT and her blog!

I recently purchased her subway quotes! She has them with a white background like the ones I purchased and also with a black background! I love having inspirational quotes in my classroom.  I know that most of my kinders can't read them but I use these sayings in my classroom all the time. It is also nice when the days been long and CRAZY to look over and read some inspiration to face the rest of the day! Alisha's quotes are beautiful and the perfect colors for my classroom! This is where I hung mine. I printed them and hung them in these black frames I got for $1 at the Dollar Tree. 

Here are a few close up pics of a few of my favorite quotes from this pack!

You can find them in her TPT store here:

Head over to her blog to check her out!

Thanks for stopping by to read about my spotlight Saturday! Head over to Kindergarten Dragons to read about other spotlighted teachers and link up to join in on the fun!

Five for Friday 7/3/15

Is it the first Friday of July can you believe it??? I am enjoying my summer break and all the fabulous link ups I have found since I jumped back into the blogging world:) This Five for Friday link up is brought to you by the amazing Doodle Bug Teaching! This is a great way to recap the week. So here's what I was up to this week!!

      

Thanks to some incredible PD last week this week I have been diving deeper into research on play in the kindergarten classroom. I also plan to incorporate more "play" through inquiry and Project based learning. I am hoping that my administration will be supportive and understanding of some of the changes I will be making in my classroom:) I'm sure she will be.... I do have LOTS of research to offer her just in case however haha!! 

I have spent several days in my classroom this week. School doesn't start back until August 3rd but since I painted my room I had to hang everything back up!! I am in love with the colors on my room. It feels so calm and peaceful...hopefully that will carry over when the kinders arrive ha! These are a few pics I took of the new set up and colors:)

The quotes in the back of the room are from the talented Bubbly Blond Teacher! They are perfect!

Loving my new alphabet I created with my Creative Clips Clipart! I love everything Krista creates!!

I have been reading this fabulous book! I missed going to the National WBT conference this year. I plan on going again next year. If you don't have this book you should. If you haven't heard of WBT or are not using WBT in your classroom you are missing out!!

                    

I created this WBT pack to use in my classroom. It is a freebie in my TPT store:)

My daughter and I went on a wild rug hunt this week! At the end of the year I got rid of my large carpet in my classroom. It had definitely seen a better day. I wanted to purchase a large bamboo mat to replace it. We looked everywhere and no luck:( I tried online and wasn't willing to pay over $200 bucks for one either!! So just as I was about to give up I ran into this super sweet lady and she suggested I go to a store called Southeastern Salvage. I have been in there before but not paid attention to rugs ha! She told me they had some nice size rugs in there for under $100. Right up my ally and budget. I was able to find something and I love it. Drum roll please it was only $50 so definitely a  PLUS!!! The funny thing was trying to load the rug in my car.  My daughter said next time we would take her car! It was comical and the store guy laughed as we were putting it in! We managed and dropped it off at school.

To celebrate the 4th of July weekend I am throwing a TPT sale!! Everything is 20% off. Happy July 4th my friends! I am so thankful to live in this wonderful country!

Thanks for stopping by for my Five for Friday! Head over to Doodle Bug Teaching to join in on the fun!!