My Classroom!!

I have officially taken over my classroom at Clay Elementary and could not be happier! Since I am replacing a teacher who has been in this room for 25 years, I had A LOT to do! She left all of her things that she did not want so I had to sort, organize, trash, etc. Also, I had to clean, clean, clean!!!  Keep in mind I only had 2 days to accomplish all of this before the students came back from Spring Break! I took all of her decorations down and put up new ones that suited the class a little better. I haven't been able to FULLY decorate because testing starts this week and there cannot be certain things on the wall. I thought I would be better off waiting to put up certain things than having to hang sheets everywhere to cover everything up!

So..here goes the "tour"! This is my bag packed the night before...my "official" teacher bag!

My director's chair...Funny story, I got this chair for Christmas when I was 10!! I wanted to be a teacher so bad, I begged my parents for a director's chair because my teacher at the time had one! So here is my chair that I have had for 14 years but finally get to use for real!!

The front board..I hung blue sparkly fabric!! 

My reading vocabulary board! We are the cougars...hence the blue paw prints! :)

My spelling board! It says "Wild About Spelling"!

The board I made to introduce myself to the students!

My mini-fridge!

The new curtains that I hung!

My lunch choice station..They put their stick in the bucket of their lunch choice!

The counter..The bulletin board is for math, but I can't put anything on it yet! After testing, it will have their "Mountain Math" daily practice on it!

My helpers chart!

One side of my room!! I love how colorful everything turned out!!

That is pretty much it for now! I will be adding more things in the next few weeks. This was just my jumping off point!!! I'll leave you with this lovely picture...me in the 4th grade!!! haha! :)