Room Tour 2013

Yeah, so I'm a little late to the party, but you know what they say - better late than never, right?  I so enjoy peeking into all of your rooms every year.  I get some great ideas from you guys.  My plan was to keep up with the teacher week linky and post every day.  I made it to the Monday post (on Tuesday).  It's the thought that counts, isn't it?  So here are some pics of my room this year:

This is what it looked like when I came back

 And then, I opened the closet...

 UGH!!!

Of course, this is what my kids do as I'm pulling things out of the closet...

So after a couple of weeks of hard work, we have the finished product - 

View from the front door:

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 From the back corner:

 From the front of the room looking back:

 Since I'm only teaching math and science/social studies this year, this is where I'll put new vocabulary when it's introduced.  After a week or so here, they'll be moved to my math or science word walls.

 Our Social Studies focus wall (yep, just noticed that the c in social studies fell down.  I'll have to fix that tomorrow!).

 Our math wall

 Our science wall (sorry about the glare)

 Our classroom helper chart. 

I have to say that I love the idea of labeling things with numbers this year instead of names.  I teach a morning group and an afternoon group this year, so numbers were much easier than putting 2 sets of names on everything!

This is our new behavior bingo (more about this tomorrow - hopefully!)

And of course, when you clean out your room and start getting things ready for the new year, you find treasures like this:

My daughter wrote this note a couple of years ago.  I know it's a little hard to read, but it says, "Mom, I went to go look for you.  If you want to know where I am, I will check the office, copy room, laminating room, and if you get worried, call the front office and do an all call."  You gotta love teacher's kids, lol!