After helping my friend set up her computers in her room, I made my way to my classroom. Little did I know, that process was going to take me about 20 minutes. I stopped along the way to say hello to my eager teacher friends who all had the same idea I did – get to the school and get some work done!
Anyway, I finally got to my classroom, opened the windows, turned on Pandora, and thought, where in the heck should I start?!?!?
This is my first year as Mrs. Wolf. After getting married last April, I received my new nameplate. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get it attached to my door before I left. When I returned to my room earlier in the week, I noticed it was attached, however, they left a big gap between the room number and my name. No offense to those who put it up, but my OCD self would be bothered by it for a long time unless I fixed it. Therefore, I pulled out my little toolkit and fixed it. I realized a long time ago that if you want something done right, you need to do it yourself (at least things you know how to do)! It’s official :
Another accomplishment today was filling my crate chairs with guided reading materials. Following with my frog theme, I created these “Leaping Learning Tubs.” When the students come to the guided reading table, they can pull out these tubs and be ready to learn.
I haven’t finished putting in all the items yet however, so far I have included a dry erase board and eraser (the students have their own markers), a frog finger puppet for retelling stories, a monster finger for pointing to words, a reading phone, and highlighting tape. I plan to add a bookmark with all of our reading strategy animals on it as well. I may add more things as I think of them.
Here’s also a peek of my daily organization trays:
I stopped on my way home to get some fake cattails and ornamental grass to put up near my windows as a way to further portray the pond-like atmosphere. Stay tuned for pictures!!
