Five for Friday

This is my first time trying out this Five for Friday linky! Yay! Head over to Doodle Bugs to Link up!

1. Today was the first day back to school/work. Boy did my alarm go off early! Yikes!

2. Full day of teacher meetings today! But the good news is we got out early!

3. Still working on Road Trip themed Items for my classroom. Need to get to printing more of these little lovelies since I have more kids coming!

4. I'm so excited that my hubby almost has our deck finished! Only thing left is the stairs! Yay!

5. This weekend is going to be great! Tonight my cousin is in town and we are going to see Footloose. Tomorrow I have a wedding shower for my good friend and then out to eat at my brother's restaurant. Fun!

Have a great weekend!

Classroom Makeover Day 2!

So I got myself up to school again today and actually spent 4 hours there! I still have some organizing to do but I feel good with where I am at! So I decided to link up with Kimberlee for Teacher Tour Tuesday!

Here are some pictures of it today!

Here is my Homework Club Board! Finally got it hung up! Yay! For the free numbers visit my TPT store!

 This is my library so far. I love my Boggle board for making words!

 

 This is something new I'm going to try this year. This board is right behind my guided reading table. I saw this idea on Pinterest but no one to credit! I made my own labels in my colors and plan to use sticky notes for each guided reading group! I'm hoping it will keep that time more structured! If you want to purchase this set check out my TPT store.

This is outside my door! Thanks to my Cricut it was easy to cut my states! 

View down the middle of my classroom! 

 

I want to use this as a math/reading center tower that I can switch around every 2 weeks. I want to differentiate the activities for my kiddos. Let me know if you have any great ideas!

AND FINALLY! I made a Teacher Toolbox for my desk! Love! I haven't found the perfect spot for it yet but I will.  I bought this lovely at Orscheln's, my husband's favorite store. I spray painted it pink. Thanks to Fun in Room 4B for the free template. I just changed to the words I wanted and printed it on my fun Chevron paper!

Woohoo! I think I am close to being done going in before I have too. Now to enjoy the last few days of summer before we are back next week!

Can't wait to see lots of rooms coming together!

 

Classroom Makeover Day 1!

Wow, I can't believe that I have only 2 weeks left before I am back to work. AHH!! So I decided to join Kimberlee for her Teacher Tour Tuesday, which is great because it forced me to get up to my classroom and get busy! My Instagram video is a little rough, need more practice with it! :) Hop over to her blog and check it out!

Here is a look at what I came back to. Everything put away and white walls everywhere! Yuck!

For the last 2 years, I have gone with a beach theme. This year, since I am looping with my class I decided that we needed a change and my new theme is.... ROAD TRIP!! I've become so excited about this theme! There are some ideas out there for this theme but not a ton, so I hope my post will help anyone wanting to try it out!

The first thing I wanted to get done was covering my bulletin boards with fabric. I bought fabric last summer from JoAnn's in a few different colors, you'll see soon that I like everything BRIGHT!

 
This is the wall right behind my small group table. I created a "bulletin board" here so I can show things we are working on in guided reading and math.

 

Now, we are looking at the board right above my carpet/meeting area. This is where my student work will be displayed. I found this great border with exciting places all over the country! Come back to see the cute name plates we will be making for each kid!

 

Check out this adorable Road Trip fabric I found at JoAnn's. I'm in love with it! Get your kicks on Route 66!

 

Lunch Count! I created these suitcases on my handy, dandy, Cricut! (Best present ever, Thanks Mom!) I am using numbered sticks for the kids to pick their lunches. All they have to do it put it in the correct fry box! What kid doesn't love McDonald's!

 

Here is my window to our pod! I cut out these Chevron pennants on my Cricut and then put 2 hole punches in the corner and strung it up with ribbon! The road border came from a bulletin board set that I purchased!

If you want some printable pennants/bunting check out my TPT store.

 

Front door of classroom! I made license plates for each one of my students for the year! See the picture below to see what they look like!

 

 

Here is where I will be putting my Learning Targets for the day/week. I love how these license plates turned out. Check out my TPT store to purchase the editable template!

 

 

 I also got my word wall put up today! See my word wall post here.

 

Here is my attempt at uploading a video to my blog! I couldn't get Instagram to work for me! I will try that again later! Any suggestions are welcome!

Here is a 360 of my room in the middle of my day today!

Hope you enjoyed my tour for today! Hopefully, I will have more next week!

My Adventure into Blogging Begins

Hello Bloggers!

I am just diving into the blogosphere and feel like I have so much to learn! I have loved looking at all the great teacher blogs to get inspiration and ideas! So hopefully one day my blog can be as great as yours! Please feel free to give me advice and feedback! :)

I live in Kansas with my husband, Danny, and my two fur babies, Harley and Roxy. Here they are mid-walk, they can't be bothered to stop for pictures! Harley is our Black Lab and Roxy is a Morkie. Aren't they the odd couple?! :)

We both went to Northwest Missouri State, Go Bearcats! So, of course, I have to plaster this Bearcat paw all over my classroom! Don't you love when your class gets excited about things that you love?

We love going to the lake in the summer and hanging out with our family! I have been a lake rat ever since I was born, and now my husband has become one too!

 I am in the middle of my summer break, or as I like to say, break time to reorganize my home life! (Which includes staying in my pajamas until lunch time) But, of course, I find myself looking at school plans and decorations for fall. It's an addiction! I am going to start my 3rd year teaching in Kansas this year. I have taught 4th grade for the last two years, and I get the chance to loop up with my class to 5th grade this year. I have never taught 5th so I am excitedly looking and making resources and ideas for my classroom!

My plan for my blog is to share about my life, school, and crafts! I want to talk and gain educational ideas and share resources that I make for my kiddos! I am also an avid crafter, just ask my best friend, so I plan to include posts about crafts that I make also!

Hope you all will come back and check out my blog, as I hope to keep adding to it!

Happy Weekend!
Kerry


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