Getting my Room Together!

So I've worked tirelessly getting my room together.  I've reorganized my library with the help of some of my 3rd grade girls from last year.  I taught them how to use Scholastic's Word Wizard and they looked up every single one of my books in my library to put the label on the front cover!  Please excuse some of my unlabeled book bins.  Waiting on preservice week for the laminator to be working at school; I know I need to buy one.

I've also created math and reading bins that I've spray painted with paint for plastic to do with Clutterfree Classroom's rotation board someone tweaked.  Last year I did it by team this year by rotation category. The purple is my math, and the pink my reading.  And I actually organized my stuff so much and purged of unnecessary "stuff" that I cleared a whole shelf that I am sure I'll be able to fill quite soon.

I've got more to share but need to take more pictures.  But one last thing.  You see that black sterelite drawer thing next to my bookcases, I've spray painted it PINK with that same spray paint for plastic.  Love spray paint!

Ok a couple things. I don't like using those super cute "I can" posters because I don't like using paper unesessarily. If I can, I try to use ways that minimize my paper use. So instead of those papers with individual statements that I will probably have to redo in a few years because a new way or wording will be in style I got these cute posters and labeled them with the subjects and write the objectives in expo marker (laminate poster first) so I can just wipe them off when I need to put new ones on. And underneath the posters I'll put subject specific vocabulary. Ignore what's on top. Not done yet. 

Then I've seen this done a couple ways but instead of storing my games in the file cabinet, I store then in these baskets from Five Below by indicator. For me, out of sight out of mind, so I try to keep all my resources out. Organized. Again ignore all the mess around. I was going through all my resource books to purge and found some I haven't used or even opened in years!