Two more days of working and my classroom is beginning to look like a classroom again. I have desks and chairs out, old bulletin boards down, things cleaned up, and some things actually put away. Hopefully two more days and I will be pretty well finished. Now onto look into The Daily Five for reading.

My Room Today, Sunday

Yes, I know. Why was I at school on Sunday? Because CC and I decided to go when all the other people we love weren't around for us to talk to  (Our other team member couldn't be there, so CC and I made copies for her too.). I get a lot done when nobody else is around...however I do miss the hustle and bustle of everyone else. I finished my bookshelves so tomorrow I can move them back and put stuff on them again. This will help a lot since I have stuff everywhere.

On the other hand....doesn't my blue wall and painted boards look nice? So tomorrow I go back to organize and move things and hopefully it will begin to look like a classroom again.

Daily Five

As I previously mentioned, I have spent many hours searching and printing from TPT and TN. One of the things I have downloaded is an adorably cute owl themed Daily Five file. It has labels and task cards, as well as coaching and reminder bookmarks, that go with the Daily Five program. So my questions is: Who has use the Daily Five or attempted to implement it with your reading program? Particulary Reading Street. I'm thinking I could use these for my centers, but would like feedback, please.

I'm putting ideas for next year on here so I will hopefully keep up with them...
1. Ticket for behavior. I have a foam board I have painted to go with Chocolate Dots, have the library pockets laminated to put the tickets in and write names on, need idea for how to manage and reward with tickets. Weekly? Monthly? Nine weeks?
2. Rewards in jar for students to pick...computer time; five minutes to draw, talk to a friend, etc.; candy; pencil; treasure box...other ideas? I found several cheap and quick arts and crafts at Michael's today and purchased them. I'm thinking of allowing that to be a draw from the jar . I'm also thinking about setting up a certain number of tickets for each type of reward...
3. Hanging student work around room on jumbo dots with clothespins. Have to paint them!
4. Would love to have a calendar/number of the day for students to complete each day. Have a few templates for this, now need idea for display in room - foam board? science board?
5. Classroom library - see Clutter Free Classroom idea for seperating by genres, not levels; then switch out periodically.

My first post...again...so bare with me. I've already lost my first blog, so I don't know how this is going to go. I'm getting ready to start my seventh year as a third grade teacher, and love it! I taught first grade for five years and sixth grade for one before landing in third; third grade is definitely the charm for me! I've spent the past month on TPT and TN looking for new materials. I'm also redoing my room; painted one wall and the bulletin board and went with Chocolate Dots for my design. Now on to the new classroom management tools (tickets, anyone?) and centers/stations (easy but worthy please!). Wish me luck!