That being said, I have a lot of work to do this summer :) Setting up a classroom is something I have looked forward to my whole life, but it is already proving to be more work than I expected (but so much fun!). There are so many little things you have to think about. Here are a couple things I have picked up so far.
I bought this rug and these ottomans from Ross a few weeks ago and I am planning to put them in my classroom library:
This picture is from Tunstall's Teaching Tidbits but I went to Garden Ridge and bought that cute rug the second I saw it on her blog! I can't wait to use it as my main gathering area:
When I bought this chair from a thrift store, it was forest green. Since then I have painted it and plan to use it as an author's chair/share chair/celebration seat/etc. It's not completely done, and it's certainly not perfect, but I am really happy with how it turned out:
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(Ignore that hose in the background!)
I got these drawers from Michael's for Christmas...only a teacher would ask for rolling drawers for Christmas! I plan to use the small drawers for Word Work/Literacy Stations and Math Games and the bigger drawers for flash cards and other large manipulatives:
Last but not least, on my last day of student teaching my mentor teacher and second graders spoiled me with these rolling drawers full of school supplies:
They are full of pens, pencils, crayons, markers, Sharpies, paper,
white board markers, etc! Everything a new teacher could possibly want!
I haven't even begun to make a dent in all that goes into putting a classroom together, but it has been so fun to get started :) Now I just need to think about bulletin boards, student storage, organizing data, curriculum mapping, new textbooks...the list is too long!
Any words of advice for this new teacher??
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