My Classroom Is Done!

My classroom is done!  (Well, that's non a completely truthful statement.  But, it's every bit finished every bit it tin hold upwardly until the lady amongst the telephone substitution to the laminator is at school, too I am able to laminate my posters too hang them on the wall.)

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 few students stopped yesteryear my room this afternoon spell I was working, too their reaction to my classroom made all the hours I've set into it then worth it.  They were literally gushing to i some other well-nigh how much they loved my classroom.  "It's then bright."  "You got a markerboard!"  "You painted the door!"  "Everything is then colorful!"  "It looks then different!"  And the most mutual response: "It's then cute!"

Does it actually thing if students similar my room?  Yes too no.  I don't conduct keep to conduct keep decorations to brand me an effective math teacher.  But, I'm going into a schoolhouse where the students don't me, too I don't know them.  First impressions definitely matter.  For a minor school, we've had an incredible instructor turnover rate.  When students motion into my classroom for the get-go time, I desire them to acquire a feel of how much I care.  I desire it to hold upwardly a positive learning surroundings - a identify they await forwards to coming to. 

And, my classroom makes me incredibly happy.  The posters, the brilliant colors of paper, the beautiful bulletin boards my parents made for my classroom, the whiteboard my parents got me off craigslist, the agency the desks are laid - all these things brand me smile.  I mean value students tin tell whether or non a instructor takes pride inwards the agency his or her classroom looks.   

So, without farther ado, hither are some earlier too afterward pictures! 

BEFORE PICTURES

My Smart Board was surrounded yesteryear shower board that individual had painted black.  I knew from the start that I needed to uncovering a agency to utilize the infinite simply about my Smart Board.  And, encounter that minor graphing white board?  That was the exclusively white board inwards the classroom.

Sad looking homemade bulletin boards that were created to comprehend upwardly the master slate chalk board from when the schoolhouse was built inwards 1919!

Red Trim.  Unpainted walls.

I don't conduct keep a painting exhibit of the fourth wall because it's a wall of windows.  But, you lot tin encounter business office of it from here.

They had stacked the desks inwards gild to shampoo the carpet.  But, traditionally, this room had been laid inwards rows. 

AFTER PICTURES

Left Side Bulletin Board: This board volition rest a operate inwards progress throughout the schoolhouse year.  As I acquire new, creative ways to do the LHS of our INBs, I volition add together to this board.

Problem Solving Strategies

This is the bulletin board I conception on changing out every bit the yr progresses.  I'm starting the yr amongst math posters that I downloaded, printed, too laminated from the North Carolina Council of Teachers of Mathematics. 

INB Supply Caddies

My Pi Filing Cabinet

My Door Decoration.  I modified this from i I saw on Pinterest.

My sis helped me brand a grid on my whiteboard out of bluish painters tape.  I wanted a dedicated location to set the day's objective, assignment, too whatever announcements.  I likewise set upwardly the engagement (as a math work - my cooperating instructor did this every hateful solar daytime during my pupil education at the middle schoolhouse level) too a quote of the day.

My mom made curtains for my classroom.  And, I dear them. 

I await at pictures of other people's classrooms, too I acquire a piddling jealous when I encounter simply how much infinite they have.  I conduct keep 24 desks inwards my room, too every bit you lot tin see, they are a piddling squished together. 

From this picture, you lot tin encounter my final bulletin board yesteryear the door.  It says "Need to Know."  So far, it exclusively has the bell schedule, schoolhouse calendar, too a quote I printed from Pinterest.  I conception on using this board to post service whatever announcements, etc.  (Please ignore the pile of posters.  They'll hold upwardly up on the wall ASAP.  I promise!)

I dear my whiteboard.  It's xv feet long too beautiful.  My parents got it off craigslist too drove over an hr to convey it to my classroom too attach it to the wall.  So, if my Smart Board doesn't operate for some reason, I volition conduct keep a identify to write!  Plus, it's ever practiced to conduct keep a identify to write reminders too operate problems.  They likewise hung upwardly my map rails higher upwardly my white board then I volition conduct keep a identify to display pupil work. 

My Desk Area

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