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Sunday, September 2, 2012

The start of something beautiful…

Whew, the first week was crazy!  Not only was it the start of a new school year, but it was also my first attempt at teaching second grade.  Boyhowdy!  I spent LOTS of time this summer making the transition from a kindergarten classroom set up to a second grade classroom set up.  While I still have a few projects to complete, I thought I would at least share our classroom as it was on Monday.

Here is what my room looked like in June when I started to move all my many things in…

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Yes, yes, it was sad…. but sometimes slow and steady wins the race.  Here are a few pics of where it is now…

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I wanted to keep my room as bright as possible by using lots of color.  Most of my classroom labels are black with white or colored lettering.  I thought this would help ease the eyes somewhat.  Jump over to Ladybug Teacher Files to see these fabulous labels!  I just love all of them!  I also purchased the library genre labels.

My classroom library is definitely a work in progress, though…

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I spent a ton of time this summer sorting books into genres,  The next step is to level them all… ouch!  Not to mention, I still have 3 crates of books to sort… books, books, books…

I just finished the library sticks for my classroom library and just about finished with my Daily 5 rotation board.  I will share those later… the pool is calling, and I want to answer!  Happy Labor Day!

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