I have to tell you that I really contemplated how I wanted to set-up my classroom library. 2022 Getty Images. The clip-art is from DJ Inkers. Most of my students arent able to independently write, so I have modified the activity with the picture that you see below: I used the font Frosty to type students responses that are next to their snowmen. Here are some other great ocean theme pages to check out: Ill keep posting ideas as I load the pictures to my computer from summer school. Thanks for looking! Check out this super cute math idea from Kinder by Kim, just click the picture to be taken to her February page, which is full of wonderful ideas! I loved how they turned out! Its been a hectic month! Home School Share has this great idea for a Humpty Dumpty Lapbook with lots of links to free materials: Story Time Stand Outs also has some great literature activities here: You have to check out this fabulous thematic unit from the Virtual Vine: Making Learning Fun also has a TON of wonderful ideas and printables. My student desks and where we do our seated work. She always has the best ideas! This is part of their Sing and Read Theme collection. Whoot-whoot! If you would like copies of the worksheets then you can download them here: We also read a couple of different versions of the Little Red Hen and painted Little Red Hens :): We discussed how we can be like the Little Red Hen (text to self connections) and brainstormed our answers. Millions of high-quality images, video, and music options are waiting for you. Click this picture to be taken to her site. I love, love, love it and display it every year! Next, students glue the arms and legs to one of the green round plates (I tell students that this is going to be the frogs tummy). I am SO lucky to have a large classroom. You can download this font here if you are interested. This was the perfect time to complete these activities since we were already learning about eggs that week. Humpty Dumpty Visual Aids from Sparkle Box. We used the following shapeslarge circle for the head, large triangle for the tail and 4 small rectangles for the legs. They turned out SO cute! I love getting the chance to take a peek into other classrooms around the world so I thought I would take a minute to share my classroom with you! This was a total time saver for me! Hi everyone! Classroom Pictures! Grow your brand authentically by sharing brand content with the internets creators. Brooke Perry shares some excellent winter math ideas and even has related downloads on her blog. Look left to see our computers, more windows, and our writing station in the right corner! Donna Glynn shares this adorable writing activity with a download. We just recently had Open House at school and we created an entire bulletin board with a friendship theme inspired by the book Little Quacks New Friend by Laureen Thompson. So we read and sang the Humpty Dumpty song from Frog Street press. Now that I finally feel like I have rested up from the weekend, I would like to share some pictures that I took of my second grade classroom. This will later be the inside of the mouth for the frog. I hope that you find these ideas useful! Here is my calendar board. Display bulletin board with binder clips held up by push pins to easily switch out papers AND not put holes in them! Oops! My word wall is located on the cabinet doors. She taught 1st grade for five years in Nevada and Massachusetts before taking a couple years off to raise her two young boys. I think that they turned out quite cute! This summer the theme was Ocean. As a special introductory price this item will be 50% off for the first 48 hours! This is the photo from the back door. The boards are pretty much bare to save space for anchor charts that I will make with my kiddos. Have a great week everyone! Well that is all I have for now and as we work in the classroom over the next month, my room will look a lot more VIBRANT as it gets filled with student learning. If you are looking for other ideas and/or printables for the Winter Themes that you are teaching in your classrooms. But if you kept walking straight, you would see this little hallway which leads to the main building (door on the right) and a big ol storage closet (door on the left). Sight word practice: Free from Kindergarten Smiles. So all of these lovey dovey feelings just make me think of Valentines day, which is just around the corner! I love this book, because it teaches students that although we may be different (i.e. Here is a picture of the finished project: After the frogs and ducks were all finished, then we painted and decorated paper dolls to represent the students. If you have followed my blog for the past few years, you will see that I used to have a teeny-tiny room in Las Vegas. Hello everyone! Here is a picture: Here are some other sample images from my On the Farm Mini-Unit available to purchase from TpT: If you are interested in getting more information about my Farm theme available for purchase on Teachers Pay Teachers, then click here. This book retails for $7.00 from The Mailbox and is full of great ideas. find the circle and glue this to the top of your plate). I cut black poster board in 1/2 to make it look like a clip board. Now look back towards the exterior door! Have fun teaching your winter themes in your classrooms! Collect, curate and comment on your files. We sang the song The Animals in the Barn and completed this pocket chart activity: This song is part of my TpT Farm Mini-Unit available for purchase. I have to tell yaIm loving my second graders! I hope that some of my ideas have inspired you! This post originally appeared on the blog Thank God Its First Grade. Students traced the letter J and talked about things that begin with the letter J. This has been fun to learn! This is the view of the right side of the classroom. So, first of all, we started out the month reading a few fun snowman themed books. on top of, bottom, side, etc). Directly to the left of when you walk in is my half set-up math station. This pic was taken from the front door where students enter. We brainstorm and discuss things that we like to do with our friends and also talk about things that we like to play. You can follow her through her TpT store, her blog Thank God its First Grade, Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest! You can find the worksheet, We also read the Crab poem from the poem book Commotion in the Ocean. I have been so busy in the last couple of weeks that this literally feels like the first time that I actually have time to write a blog post. Click any of the pictures below to be taken to my store to check it out :). Culture dolls and culture reports. Here are some sample photos of just afew of the many items included in this decor pack. I have a pattern for the jeans and t-shirts, and I copy these onto construction paper. We completed the Letter C worksheet from First-School. TpT is an open marketplace where educators buy, sell, and share original teaching materials. I added ribbon for some extra cuteness. Students later completed the writing prompt. . Finally, glue white cotton balls to the top of the head for the eyes and add black construction paper circles to eyes as well. My classroom walls are a bit bare now since I save a LOT of my wall space for student work and anchor charts we make together, but I can show you how it all begins! I hope that you enjoyed my classroom tour! Finally, I present to youpictures from my classroom! Well that is all for now, but check back later in the week for other posts (HINT: they are going to include FREEBIES)! frogs and ducks), we are still all the same (i.e. Soafter we read this story in class, we made paper plate ducks and frogs. Below is a compilation of activities, ideas and links to share with you. They are so sweet! It was open house the night that I took this picture. Once that dries, paint the inside of one of the plates red. School started last week and can I just sayI love my little class of wonderful kiddos! What a great idea! Tap into Getty Images' global scale, data-driven insights, and network of more than 340,000 creators to create content exclusively for your brand. We also cut out a smaller yellow circle from yellow construction paper for the head. If you are interested in checking out this product, then check out my pin on Pinterest. This is another view of the Reading Board. The top is not finished yet, but will hold more math manipulatives and games that I will want to grab quickly! I use the small whiteboard whenever we are in our seats. We also finished some snowflakes that we made with various die-cut shapes. Here is a picture of the finished project: For the paper plate frogs, we painted outsides of two small desert plates green. Here is my desk/work area, which is already messy! These would be great for making your own big book to read aloud to students. Access the best of Getty Images and iStock with our simple subscription plan. After these are dry, then we can add the clothing. We made paper plate crabs (see picture below) and reviewed the color red. Students water colored paper plates and then we later added tissue paper strips to make the tentacles for our jellyfish. They consist of games from these two following units: Walk past the bookshelves and you see the second half of the room! We also sequenced the story with pictures. I thought that I would share some of the activities that we completed this summer in my special education preschool classroom. Here is a picture of the finished projects from last years class: This was the "Things We Love" take home project that my students completed with their families last year. share ideas, inspiration, and connect with teachers from around the world! We watercolored sea horse clip-art that I found from The Mailboxs Ocean Themed book. Awe.I love you guys too! We also completed a variety of activities that day related to the color green. I also display seasonal books on the display bookshelf. Finally, we just add the finishing touches, such as eyes and yarn for the hair. I use lots of that wall space above and below the boards for anchor charts and student work! We also used a lot of positional words during this activity (i.e. Ok, so I realize that it is Monday.AND I was suppose to post this last Wednesday, but its been a pretty busy week. Ill keep posting some more photos in the next couple of days of projects that we completed during our farm theme, and who knowsI may have another giveaway in the near future :). Susan is passionate about creating interactive and engaging resources that get both students and teachers excited to learn! Last, but not least, my teacher space! This is the view from my exterior door. I like it on our cabinets because we do our writing at our seats so it provides easy access for students to find the words they need! ABC cards that I made to coordinate with the colors in the classroom. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education and Child Psychology. I know that Im a little behind, but I still want to share these pictures with you. Here are a few pictures: View from the door. I really love the book, Snowmen at Night.

In this story Little Quack, who is a duck, makes an expected friend with Little Ribbit, who is a frog. We also made some paper snowmen and students dictated sentences to me using the sentence frame, My snowman is ____. You can download a copy of some writing paper here with this prompt: my snowman writing. You can see part of my classroom library which is separated both by genre and level. This month is Kevin Henkes. Where it All Goes Down.Classroom Tour2011! Thanks for looking and I hope that you liked taking a little peek into my classroom! Here is a close-up of the word wall cards. Now that youve pretty much seen the classroom, here are some other close-up pictures. The Getty Images design is a trademark of Getty Images. Students colored seahorses and rainbow traced the letter s. We used this. However, I wanted to share a few ideas for the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty that we did at the end of March. I ended up purchasing bins from Dollar Tree and purchased Reagan Tunstalls Classroom Library bin pack from Teachers pay Teachers. Students used crayons to practice rainbow writing the upper and lower case letters, then they colored, cut and glued the objects that started with the letter c their papers. This picture is from the back of the room. We talked about symmetry and how each side should look the same. Those back cabinets around the sink will eventually become our word wall. Inside the tubs are prompts from my Beginning of the Year Writing pack and will be replaced throughout the year with my Writing Through the Seasons prompts. We like to play ___ together. I later typed their responses and added them to the bottom of the board. The students had a blast learning about various ocean animals, and I also integrated basic skills such as letters, counting, shape recognition and color recognition into this theme. First, we paint an outlined shape of a person with paint that matches the students skin color. I also sent home this take home project with my students to complete with their families: I send home a copy of a construction paper heart with the note from above. Im sure feeling the love from all of you! This is definitely worth checking out. There are a TON of wonderful ideas here :). This is the view from the back of the classroom.