View of Room 117

This is a previous post, but today I am linking up with Blog Hoppin' for Where It Goes Down Wednesday! This is day 3 of the teacher week that they are hosting.

 This is my first year teaching and I am teaching 6th grade Language Arts. We are a part of a middle school campus. Welcome to my room!

 the view from the doorway

 this is where I will post schedules and that sort of thing

 students will find their homework posted here and also some parts of speech signs that I made

 my organized classroom library :)

 view from the library

 view from the back of the room

the wooden storage unit is being removed and I am anxiously awaiting for that interactive board to be up in my room

 this is where students will pick up papers when they get to class as well as find graded papers, extra copies, and work when they are absent

 each student will be assigned a number and my teacher aide will put their graded papers in their folder for them to pick up

 my desk area

 view from the window

 my reading strategy signs compliments of the Teacher's Clubhouse

 I love this thing! I am storing picture books that I will use to teach concepts here and also teacher editions of books. Students will turn in their work on top in their correct tub.

 my electronic hole punch and a pencil station (I did not realize how bad the top of the filing cabinet looked though)

 We just had these installed. We will have voicemail!!!

 view from my desk

Luckily the Interactive Board has since been mounted to the wall!

Hope you enjoyed the tour of room 117!

Friday It Begins!

It is so hard to believe that I really begin my first year as a teacher on Friday! Well that is at least when inservice starts for new teachers. My room is finally beginning to look like a classroom after being at camp the past 6 weeks. I took my camera up to the school with me on Sunday, but of course it was dead when I turned it on. Tomorrow we have Tadpole Camp for the incoming 6th graders to get acquainted with their new school. All day Wednesday and Thursday are going to be spent putting my finishing touches on my classroom. I cannot wait to share the pictures with you all!

Enjoy what is left of your summer vacation!

Garage Sale via the Web

I know I have been talking about how I wanted to get rid of some lower elementary resources on the blog that I had collected over the years, and I finally got around to taking pictures of those things today. How this is going to work is that you will need to email me if you are interested in purchasing any of the items. My email is k.e.klohn@gmail.com. You will just pay for the purchase price and I will cover the shipping. Most of these items are barely used and some are brand new. Hopefully you will find something you could use in your classroom. Be sure and let your friends know too!

 Assorted dice, number cubes, and flash cards. $20 for everything in the pictures.- SOLD

 4 sets of magnetic letters, one of each letter. $5 for the all 4.

 Bag of over 200+ foam magnetic letters. $5- SOLD

 Assorted calendar cover-ups. All are complete sets. $1 per set or $10 for everything.

 Tub of centimeter cubes that are still in the original package. $10

 Flashcards $2 for all 3

 2 bingo games that have never been opened $10

 Candy Land and Chutes&Ladders, $8 each or $15 for both together

 Texas resource book, $5

 Big Math Book for 1st and 2nd, $5

 Sanity Savers, $5

 2nd grade workbook, $5

 Reading Graphic Organizers 1st-3rd, $8- SOLD

 Writing Graphic Organizers 1st-3rd, 8

 Math Workbook, $3

 1st grade Test Prep, $5

 I Have Who Has Math Games 1-2, $8

 Addition and Subtraction workbook, $3

 Science Homework Help, $5

 Science Tub Topics, 1-3, $8- SOLD

 Sciencesauraus, $5

 Thinking Activities for Centers, $10

$1

I would also be open to trading materials if you are wanting to share some for the upper grades with me. Looking forward to hearing from you all!

Back To School

I cannot believe that the summer is coming to an end and the school year is quickly approaching. For me the year is going to get underway starting on August 9th when we have Tadpole Camp for the incoming 6th graders. Of course my classroom is no where near ready at this moment and I am not really sure when I am going to have time to do that before the 9th.

Believe it or not, I have managed to at least get the first week of school planned already. I am getting pretty excited about it and am looking forward to doing some new things with my students that they have hopefully not done before in the past. I will be sharing my lesson plan template with you all in the next couple of weeks, more than likely once I am home from camp. 

I have gotten a great response from so many of you all about being pen pals and cannot wait to get it started! I know that my kids are going to have so much fun with it and I am excited to have them write letters since it is something that is forgotten about too often with this generation of kids. I am currently attempting to create some postcards on Vistaprint for my kids to use that are personalized for our class. What sort of things have you all created on Vistaprint for your classroom?

I am also currently obsessed with these crate seats that I found on this blog. Even though I teach 6th grade, I still think my students will love them in the library area where all of the books are housed. 

Pictures of the classroom will be coming soon!

Letter Exchange

This coming school year I am going to have 3 Language Arts classes. One of those classes is going to be an inclusion class. I have always dreamed of doing a postcard exchange, and I am thinking this will be a great activity for this class. I am thinking a 4th, 5th, or 6th grade class would work best for this.

If you would be interested or know someone who is, leave a comment or you can email me too at k.e.klohn@gmail.com

Classroom WIshlist

Today I am linking up with 

to share my classroom wishlist. 

 A Flip video camera. I know my kids would love it and I think it would be a creative way for them to share their information.

 I love laminating and my own laminator would make life so much easier.

 A dual board. Oh wait, the wish is already granted. I will have one this fall!!!

 I love storage and this could be used for so much.

Netbooks for research and other projects. I am thinking about doing a donors choose project for this.

I Love Summer Vacation!

It is officially my 2nd week of summer vacation and I finally got to sleep in today! By sleeping in I mean 7:30am. 

Summer vacation so far has consisted of Cheer Camp for 3 days, 30 hour GT institute, and planning for the next school year. I would love to have my entire 1st 6 weeks planned for the fall, but the likelihood of that happening is going to be pretty slim I think once I get to camp. I will be happy if I can just be a few weeks ahead. 

Over the past couple of years, I have been collecting lots of things that were more geared towards the elementary classroom. I am thinking about doing a blog sale of some teaching things. What do you all think about that? Would you be interested in some of the resources I have?