September Currently

I'm a few days late with this one.  Back to school has felt a bit crazier than usual this year!   It's time once again for this month's Currently post.  I'm linking up with Oh Boy 4th Grade to bring you a bit about what's going on with me right now.  

  Listening to "Wildest Dreams": I've had this song on repeat for days now.  It also doesn't hurt that Miss Swift included Scott Eastwood as her leading man in the video!   Loving my new small group table: I took the leap and got rid of my desk this year.  We are starting with small groups Tuesday when we get back from the long weekend.  It was a big bigger than I expected when the box came in, but it's really inspired me to do some great things with interventions this year.   Thinking about how excited I am for all things fall: Fall and winter are my favorite seasons.  I love the cooler weather, fall smells, fall drinks, snuggling under blankets, warm fires, etc.  My countdown to the first day of fall has begun, even though I know it won't actually feel like it for a while longer!   Wanting construction at school to move quickly: We are getting upgraded bathrooms at my school.  They were only able to finish the Pre-K/K bathrooms attached to the rooms and one of the main ones over the summer.  Now that they are demolishing the other two large ones (including the one RIGHT across from my classroom--ugh!!), we've got 500-600 students all using the same one.  It's been slightly chaotic figuring out a master schedule so we aren't all trying to use it at once.   Needing more hours in the day: So not only am I teaching and volunteering with my church council, but now I'm also trying to really kickstart my TPT store.  Oh yeah, there's that bit about starting on my Ed. Specialist degree this semester.  Because I had SOOO much free time before, I just needed one more thing to do :)   3 goals: 1. I really love the #happyclassrooms movement on social media.  It's about time we band together to show everyone the million positive things happening every single day in our rooms. 2. Somewhere in between needing more hours in the day, I need to make time for ME.  Teachers are really bad about taking care of ourselves, so I want to make it more of a priority. 3. August was my best month to date in TPT.  It really gave me the motivation I needed to really work on building my brand and making quality products.

Classroom Reveal 2015

I'm linking up with Ashley and Angie for #2getherwearebetter and talking about classroom reveals this month.  We've been in school for 2 weeks now, and it's been SO hard not to share these sooner!!  

  Welcome to my 2nd grade room!!   I'm going clockwise around my room, starting at the front board.

View from my door.  I have 26 students this year.  Side note:  my desks are now in a 'U' shape.

This is my front board:  daily schedule, genius ladder, clip chart, table rewards, and behavior bingo.

This is my computer area for my SMART Board. You can also see my AR progress chart and reading buddies.

My intervention bookshelf.  Left side is math, right is reading.

My teacher area in the back.  I like it cold, so I keep a few extra jackets handy.  The books on this shelf are for my read-alouds.

 

 

I got rid of my desk for a small group table this year!  My word wall is now rainbow colored to match the Dolch levels.

 

I have 2 desktop computers, 5 laptops, and 4 iPads.  Seriously awesome!  Please ignore the giant Epson box--new SMART projector they still have to install.



Phonics poster, math word wall, Super Improver wall, Journeys focus board, counting to 100 days and testing vocabulary.

 

Quite possibly my favorite part of my room:  my classroom library!  I may be addicted :)

My student center is on the bookshelf.  I have my brag board (ready for all the notes/drawings I get!) and a cork board map for our postcard exchange.

I hope you've enjoyed the picture tour, and I can't wait to see some other reveals!