Warning: These are from a couple months ago! It's still mostly the same though...Below is my pocket chart for literacy and math workstations. I took pictures of my kids and made their picture cards and then there are the icon cards for their destination for the day. We are up to two destinations during Literacy Workstations now, so the far left column has a row of icons. We do round 1 before lunch, round 2 after lunch. Math Workstations is the last things we do everyday, and they simply rotate to the next tub the next day. This is so easy to flexibly adjust, and the kids can read it and see where they need to go! Love it! This is all based on Debbie Diller's books on Workstations. Great Stuff!
Below is my display for the numbers and above that I hung up the charts we did for the 4 basic shapes. These will probably stay up all year long.
 This picture shows a few things: on the far left middle is our behavior chart - their names are velcroed on it. Beside that - the sea of pink are the "Jones Bucks" - the PBIS reward money used school-wide. These are earned for good behavior and are spent on treats and special events. Then, at the end of the shelf in the blue basket, is my "Word Work" Workstation Basket. The "Super Star Writers" board is where I post writing work. In the corner I have the Listening Workstation with Leapfrogs. They carry these to a nearby table to use.
 Here is my guided reading table, with the door into my classroom behind it.
 This is a close-up of the Listening Workstation.
 Below my calendar board and activboard I still have some of these rhyming word posters that we made during our rhyming unit. Like my drawing skills? lol!
 Here is the Vocabulary Board and the Calendar Board. Nothing special really...
 This was how the Big Books Center looked - Now I have the books they are allowed to use in a big basket. The blue buckets on the floor hold one table each of letter tiles - a tool used for Saxon Phonics. Each set of tiles is in a little Gerber rectangular plastic box - perfect fit!
 This is the "Library" or "Book Boxes" Station. Each book has a little label showing what basket it should be put away in.
 Computer Workstation: used for the IStation Program. If I could use desktop icons I'd use it for math too...but I have not yet figured out a kid-friendly way to open math websites quickly.
 This is the shelf where the week's AM Centers (before school starts) puzzles are kept. I have a different AM center for each table and they rotate each day (the activities move to another table).
 Uh-oh-----time out Safe Spot! A place to get your feelings sorted out so you can rejoin the class. All our rules are hung over it and the heart was from a lesson about hurtful words early in the year.
 This shelf is the home of my regularly used math manipulatives and the green labeled boxes are the Math Workstation tubs. The labels match labeled work spots around the classroom. Every boxes label has a matching label on the shelf. This area has stayed pristine so far this year - way better than the disaster zone that it was last year!
 This was the wordwall before any vocabulary words went up. The letters are from last year's letter exchange. We are doing a letter exchange this year, too. Still waiting on a few letters and then I'll take down last year's letters and put up this year's! It's a really cool looking alphabet. Sight words go on another alphabet across the room. Ooops - no picture of that!

Somehow I neglected to take pictures of the room as a whole...maybe next time! Basically this covers everything but the four tables and the carpet area (which is under the calendar and ActivBoard.
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Somehow I got hired as a Kindergarten teacher AND taught for a full year without ever in my life making playdough. That changed yesterday!


 My Grandma is the craft and kid's projects extraordinaire of the family, and thank God she lives 5 minutes from me. Yesterday I headed to her kitchen for a playdough cooking lesson! I needed enough for my whole class, in primary colors. We did a color mixing project while singing Heidisongs for colors today. Then, they took their own dough home. My children left school today in a state of glee and looking at me like I was Santa Claus or something. Haha!



So, here are some pictures of me cooking the playdough. Just to warn you all, I EPIC fail at remembering the existence of cameras during school hours, so I have nothing to show of the actual lesson. *sad sigh* I think I need a parent volunteer to come in and act as a photographer? Would that help me?


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I am on vacation this weekend, and thought you all would enjoy seeing my travel buddy!  This is my new dog, Rosco. He is a five year old pug. We got him through SEPRA, which is the Southeast Pug Rescue and Adoption. We love him!
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Sorry all my posts lately are about other people's giveaways - I've just been taking it easy during my last week of summer vacation. Next week I will be back to work! That means pictures of my classroom are coming soon! Woo-hoo!But until then, bear with me and enjoy finding out about sweet giveaways - k?
Go to Effective Teaching Articles to get ready for a whole week of daily giveaways and freebies every day too! I love that there will be a freebie every day! This begins August 1st and goes through August 5th.


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I'm a little terrified of this giveaway. If I won, I don't know where I'd find the time to go through all the goodies from TWELVE different awesome bloggers. Go to: Back to School Bonanza
But hurry - this ends in 50 minutes! Sorry for the late notice - I've been too busy playing with my new dog and getting ready to go on vacation- BEACH!!!!!!!!

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I have an interactive whiteboard and have been really wanting to try some of the software I've seen with games designed to be used on the interactive board. Maybe through this giveaway I'll finally get to!

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Gradually my local Target is getting some of the lovely finds I've seen other bloggers rave about. Here is what I got this week, and my ideas for each:

For these smiley stickers, I'll cut the sheets apart so each child has 2-3 colors to work with - and they will show off their patterning skills! I love using these as a guide: "I Can Make a Pattern" FREEBIE! They help the child visualize the part that repeats. I print two pages per sheet when using small stickers. 


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