My Classroom

Most of the printables that you will see in my classroom come from my Sports Theme Classroom kit.


My theme starts in the hallway.


This fun basketball court includes basketballs for each of my students and my PM partner’s students. My husband came up with the brilliant idea to use a white out runner to make the lines on the court. It makes them bolder than if we had used paint.


Lots of people ask me about the letters that I use on all of my bulletin boards. I actually printed out varsity style letters that I had from an old dig scrapbook kit. And of this particular board, I glued them to a printout of a basketball.


This is a view of my room right when you walk in…

I think it looks clean and coordinated.

Directly to the left are our student cubbies.


Since another class comes uses the room in the afternoon, students can’t keep folders and supplies in their desks. Instead, they keep their supplies in these cubbies. At the end of the day they take their cubby of their desk and put their PM partner’s cubby in the desk.


As you walk farther in to the room, you come to our small group table. We meet with reading, math and writing groups at this back table. Behind the table is where we keep the supplies we need for these small groups including tubs with book club books, math manipulatives, white boards and writing supplies. They are stored on this awesome shelf from Ikea.

I also LOVE the alphabet! It is from Schoolgirl Style.





The stools under the table are also from Ikea. I LOVE them! They are small and easy to stack and store under the table. They take less room than traditional chairs.

Just past the small group area, is our reading bulletin board.


On the next wall, we have our writing board and the classroom library.




Isn’t that bat adorable!

We spent quite a bit of time this summer leveling our books (inside the covers) and organizing them by interest to make it easy for students to select books they will enjoy. I made some simple labels for the boxes.

Right next to the classroom library, I keep my language centers and then tubs filled with language  games and activities that I will pull out when we are working on a particular unit.

The centers that my students do everyday are stored in pencil pouches in a basket on top of the shelf. This is a huge space saver!


The next thing on the wall is my computer table/volunteer table. On the wall, we put science and social studies related projects that the kids complete. Right now, we are studying the ocean and ocean animals, so we have some fun seahorses.





The volunteer area has cups hanging on the wall that house pens, pencils, markers and other supplies that they might need. Also, we have magnetic pockets on the side of our filing cabinets where we can put lists for them or papers to copied or graded. It is a small space, but our fabulous volunteers are making it work perfectly! Can you believe that I have two volunteers each day!

Right next to the volunteers, we each have our own filing cabinet. I decked mine out using editable labels from my Sports Theme 2 kit and some washi tape.



Right above our filing cabinets is our job display. I bought it at a local teaching store. I used to make different jobs for each of my students. Each week, I would forget to switch them and spend too much time explaining all the jobs. Now, I just have two helpers per day. They do everything I need- take attendance to the office, take out trash, etc.


Each student has a baseball with his or her number on it. I split them into two stacks on hung them with command hooks. Each morning after taking attendance, I just flip the baseballs to figure out who my helpers will be.

I like the simplicity of the system. It allows everyone to be a helper every 2-3 weeks.

When you turn the corner, you will find my backpack area which I named the Locker Room. My husband made it for me.



As you turn the corner, you will find our focus wall with rules, vocabulary and I Can statements.


This brings us to the of font of our classroom. We have a smart board. Under the smart board, we installed some rain gutter to make a book shelf for our science and social studies books. I just put out the books that match the unit we are currently working on.


I also have my fun baseball stool up there. I just took a wood stool from Wal-Mart and spray painted it white on top with red legs. We then used some red paint to make the laces.

Right beside the smart board is our math board. I love that it is front and center and tells students that math is just as important in our room as reading is.



On the bottom shelves, we keep math games and manipulatives that we want kids to have access to. They are all labeled to make it easy for students to find what they need during math workshop time.



On top of the counter, we have our daily drawers to keep materials we need, our office supply toolbox, and our Chromebook case.



On the shelved above the counter, we have some teacher books, special read aloud books AND my task cards!!!



The last thing in my room is this huge cabinet. We primarily use it for student supplies, art supplies and paper. I use the outside to display my reading and math g groups. I just laminate the group names and use dry erase marker to write student names in.


I keep things pretty organized but I need to get these relabeled this year!