My classroom is finally finished. Yea!! My reading table has a huge wipe board behind it. I've hung my phonics sounds poster, grammar, and writing posters at the top so I still have room for students to come up and practice writing words during small group instruction. I downloaded for free these years ago on TPT. I found them on pinterest. I'm not sure if they are still available. My bear board will be a seasonal board to display student work and celebrate each new holiday and season. The clips with pencils is an idea my youngest son's school uses in the hallways. We have these peg boards all over my school so I glued clothespins for each student to the peg board. Then I taped a cute pencil on top. I'll label each pencil and use them to display student work all year. Lastly is my classroom management chalkboard. I was kind of hesitant about having a chalkboard in my classroom at first, but now I'm loving it. I have my Whole Brain Teaching posters at the top, my hand signals, I can... statements and lastly Whole Brain Teaching tally mark chart. I also plan to add student tally marks that will be used to keep track of GREAT behavior. When I see a student really doing an awesome job I have a small bell I'll ring and say "oh, I love how _____ is _______ " and give an awesomeness tally mark. I also have a prize box and a lucky duck jar I will draw a name from daily. All student names will be in the jar, but the ones with the most awesomeness points will get their name in the jar more times. Estimation, probability and great behavior all wrapped up into one awesome package.
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