Welcome to K5! Let me show you around!
This year we are the Bates' Buckaroos and our room is ready for some rip roarin', rootin' tootin' cowgirls and cowboys!
We are lucky to have our own restroom and sink as well as an awesome loft! The loft provides a "roof" for our home living center as well as a quiet area for our "Peace Place" where students can solve friendship problems, calm down, or think about how to manage conflict using our "toolkit". During morning meeting we add resources to our toolkit that kids can use to handle problems - anything from a friend using hurtful words to missing mom and dad.
This is our calendar /morning meeting area. We begin each day by singing and saying letters & sounds, months & days, and other important things. We talk about place value as we count our days in school and our calendar pieces make a new pattern every month. Our calendar posters change as we master what we've been working on, so this area is always changing! You'll also notice our computer center to the left of our whole class meeting area.
These are our tables where we work together. They are named after the animals native to our state of Texas - mockingbirds, armadillos, longhorns and (my personal favorite...) horned frogs! Our word wall is on the cabinets and we will add sight words as we learn them. The colorful tubs in the front of the photo hold math and literacy manipulatives (labels coming soon!)
This is my horseshoe table where I meet daily with guided reading groups. We will work on reading fluency and phonemic awareness in need-based groups. The rest of the students work in literacy work stations while I meet with small groups of students. It is a highlight of our day!
These are our management boards for literacy work stations and centers. It's hard to see how they work, but the yellow stars have student names and they follow their "schedule" each day as we move through 3 rotations. For developmental centers, the students hang their picture beneath the card for the center they'd like to work in. There are just enough "hangers" as there are spots in each center, so it's easy for kids to know when a center is "full". Underneath the management boards, you'll where we keep some of our manipulatives and center work.
Thanks for visiting our room! We hope you can visit in person sometime soon!
