Classroom Reveal Part 2

I made it through my first week back and I have to say, while I am tired, I'm also excited about this new year! I have some very sweet third graders and one or two that can be a handful. As promised, here is my classroom finished. It was a lot of work,  but I am very happy with how it turned out this year!

View from the door:

My desk arrangement:

 The reading corner:

The "back of the room" (Even though it's the side, technically).

My Job chart and mailboxes:

Another view of my reading corner:

The front of the room:

 My desk area

The back corner:

My Brag tags:

Student and Math supplies:

Close up of the student desks: the goodie bags I stamped myself and have a pencil, bookmark, and box of smarties. Each group also has a scrap bucket in the middle for our Interactive notebook cuttings.

My Super Improver Board:

View from the reading corner:

My desk:

Our staff mailboxes: I made a little box with Werthers and card for each staff member. All 55 of them!!

So that is my classroom, I hope you enjoyed it and if you have any questions don't hesitate to leave a comment.

First week

Man the days are flying by....we are almost at the end of the second week! We have done a lot of fun things, and I am really enjoying my class. We are still working on transitions, but that will take some time...haha.
Some of our first week highlights include: All about me pennants, sunflower glyphs, favourite words lesson, and introducing the "dice game".

Colouring their "pick-a-stick" people

All about me pennants: 

favourite animal is a goat???

Sunflower glyphs:

Art folders:

Dice game! Never had them all engaged at once! best and easiest math game ever! All you need are two dice, or even more exciting, DOUBLE DICE and a simple bar graph! Students roll the dice (or die) and add the two numbers together. Then they record the sum on the bar graph by colouring the corresponding square. The goal is to see which sum wins! All you hear as they play is, "7 is winning!" :5 is winning!" etc!

Piratey Things

So we are doing a small unit on pirates this week and therefore we did a few 'piratey" things.

We completed our pirate glyph and the kids did really well, they handled it better than I anticipated and we got through it pretty quickly!

Cute right?
We also did a" look back on our summer" activity, and I entitled it "Summer, Ho!"(it was the most piratey title I could come up with). The students were given a spyglass, and had to draw a picture of something they did this summer. Then they had to write their name, what they did and a detail about what they did. Some really "got it" and others.....not so much....

I am thinking of having the kids create a wanted poster as though they are pirates wanted for some crime or other....but we'll see.

We have also read many Pirate books, which the kids have loved.
Some favourites:
Small Saul
Fluffy: Scourge of the Sea
Pirate Pearl
Pirates Go to School

The kids are enjoying it, it really fires their imagination and increase their excitement level for school. It's been a fun break  from Frogs for me as well, and I may do it again next year, unless I see something awesome on Pinterest! haha