I'm so excited to share my new classroom! It has been a journey to set it up.
This year I moved from teaching Prep (aka Foundation, kindergarten, the first year at school) to teaching a grade 2/3 composite class. I'm so ready for this new challenge! As well as the grade change I moved buildings at my school. I'm now in a 60 year old building, with lots of quirks and issues and my new room is smaller than my old room.
The most exciting thing about the building I'm in is that it will be demolished at the end of the school year because we are getting a new school building!! So, I was given free reign over what I wanted to do to my room - and my first decision was to paint it!
It was a pale blue to begin with, and I had it painted white. I love how bright and light it looks!
I decided to stick with a pretty simple colour palette of blues, greens and beige/whites.
I'm so glad I did, because I got the brightest primary coloured tables!! Super fun!
After I got my tables it was time for the fun bit of rearranging the furniture, setting up my book corner and organising my 'teacher desk' (or lack of teacher desk). Two years ago I got rid of my teacher desk, instead I use an IKEA trolley to store all of my stationery, I have a bench that I put my planner and computer on when they're not being used, and I use my small group table as my desk when my students aren't around.
Here's my teacher desk area:
Here's my book corner:
Here are my awesome storage tubs with labels on them:
This is the front of my room, where my students sit for whole group instruction (I love love love my IKEA teacher chair!!):
I've got my tables set up in groups of six students:
These are some of my display, ready to go! This is our Wondering Wall (during our Inquiries students pose 'I wonder...' questions which we endeavour to answer over the course of the Inquiry):
I hot glued thumb tacks to the back of glitter pegs to make displaying student work easy:
And, this is where I display our subject buddies (the person they pair up with for different activities in reading, writing and maths, and they are of mixed-ability) and where we'll display our goals for the week (that will be another blog post):
All of these photos were shared on Instagram over the last few weeks, so if you'd like to stay up to date with my classroom I'd love it if you'd follow me on Instagram @jemluck
