Death by Pinterest and Classroom Reveal

***WARNING PHOTO OVERLOAD***Okay, so I am obsessed with Pinterest. Admitting you have a problem is the first step, right?  I spend hours on projects that I think will take a "few" minutes. I've spent the last two weeks working like a madwoman trying to get my room ready.  If you know me, this is no small feat.  I am the teacher who is ususally the first one in the building unpacking and the last one at the end of the year.  My new class wasn't ready for move-in until 2 weeks ago, so I'm still "adding" to it daily.  Almost every corner has "pinteresting" feature.

This is the view as you enter thedoor.  Even though I'm not Dual Language, I like to split my room up into 4 quadrants: Math, Literacy, Science and Social Studies. I also like having a student generated word wall with vocabulary.

Another pinspiration idea from April at ChalkTalk, but I still need to add a few vowels and graphic for each letter.

I lurve Ladybug Teacher Files.  I still need to decide on an alphabet but I'm loving her genre dots.

My leveled library in progess...

Recognize those dry-erase spots?  Yup, pinterest!  I also have my brownie points, birthday balloons, homework club, rainbow polka dot storage carts and teacher papers organizer below all from Pinterest. 

My small group area has 5 gallon bucket seats and my "stop" sign per Debbie Diller inspiration.

How can I forget the inspiration from Sarah Cooley and her awesome writing station. I'm working on getting my "writer's eye" together as well.

I also have my whole brain rules from GingerSnaps and my very own classroom rules freebie!

I am in awe of all the truly fantastic teacher resouces available made by teachers for teachers.  I'm sure I failed to give credit where credit was due for all the wonderful inspiration, ideas and work from fellow teachers  Thanks ya'll and have a great year!

Bada-Bing! The Magical Product Swap, a FREEBIE and a Giveaway!

Jessica at Mrs. Stanford’s Class blog hosted a product swap and I am here to show you the fun product I got to review.  I was able to swap products with the wonderful Heather Perkins at Second Grade Perks. She has some really great products at her TPT Store - Check  em' out.  The product she swapped with me was her Word of the Day unit.

This unit is a very useful tool to help enlarge student vocabulary.  Since I teach at a Title I school, I'm always looking for ways to build schema and increase student vocabulary.  It was easy to incorporate into Daily5/CAFE because my students are already working on collecting words.

Heather's Vocabulary packet really spells out how use her unit.

  She introduces 2 words on Tuesday and Thursday and students work on vocabulary for homework.  Every Friday students have a vocabulary quiz.

We have a word collector board with flip cards for student generated
vocabulary.

As we introduced the words I had the kids create a card that has a picture and definition of each new vocabulary word.

We also have a large class word collector book where we add the word of the day.  Students also have their writing journals with a word collector section where they keep these words to use in their writing.

Click HERE to get the vocabulary flip cards as a FREEBIE!

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