The Monster Tour

I've been gone from blogging for almost a month.
So I decided to show you what I've been doing with all that time...
(drumroll please)

This is the view you see once you walk into Room 5 at Rock Canyon Elementary.
My room is HUGE.

My classroom Word Wall. The cool thing about these doors that look like storage doors is that they actually open up to wall hooks for the students to put their backpacks and coats in! Then I close them and WALLAH! I don't have to look at all of their stuff all day long.

Front corner of the classroom. This whiteboard is actually chalkboard turned whiteboard from a garage sale. We pulled off the chalkboards and cut the whiteboard at Home Depot, drilled some holes and we got a whiteboard easel!


This is T's pride and joy of my classroom. He designed and put the structure together and I "shingled" the roof. It will eventually have a sign that says "Kussee's Klubhouse." Eventually.


I made these puppies. Yarn balls! Just like paper mache, but instead of newspaper you use yarn!


The library inside the clubhouse! Are these bins just not the coolest?


A closer look at the bins... I organized them according to topic, although next year once I have more books they'll probably be sorted according to the AR level reading.


The awesome pillows my Grandma surprised me with. They match my book bins! The rug is from IKEA.


My desk. The monsters hanging from the ceiling were all handmade by yours truly and are for my students birthdays. I made 10 extra in case of new students, secretaries birthdays, etc.

A close up of one of my favorite monsters...


Journals for the kiddos. They're just composition books covered with cardstock using modge podge (which is my new best friend).


I'm going to attempt the clip chart management. I've done research into different behavior management systems and to my personal preference, I enjoy the clip chart system. It's similar to pull cards in the classroom with the exception of the fact that students can work their way back up the chart if they do poorly during the day! You can read more about it and find your own preference by going here.


The birthday bulletin board and Mon "star" of the week board!


Monster jobs!


The calendar area right when you walk in the door. The writing steps are on the board next to it. I'll take my students pictures the first week, print them, and laminate them so the students can move their picture depending on where they are at in the writing process.


Colorful bins! These were in the Target dollar section and hold my wooden pattern blocks along with supplies I don't know what to do with yet.


I made these magnets by ordering pins without the pins on the back from an Etsy store. Then I attached some magnets and got personalized monster magnets!


More bins for storing math manipulatives. I'm OCD and have to label and number everything...

The front of the classroom. Do you see my sweet awesome promethean board?! It's an interactive whiteboard that enhances learning by leaps and bounds. What a blessing to have one in my own classroom!I could keep going on and on about my classroom and showing more pictures... but I'll stop now.

Now onto lesson planning!