Looking at these pictures, it really doesn't look like much. The first one is my word wall with my classroom library below it. There aren't many books yet, but that will change when I finish bringing my books from home. The posters on the left are my metacognitive strategies, and the ones on the right are my classroom rules and consequences. I have big tables in my classroom, and in the middle of each table is a popcorn container with extra pencils, a sharpener, stapler, and 3 hole punch. There are also tissues at each table so the kids won't have to get up and disrupt class as much.
I got posters and the books to go with them for this corner. I've read Gone With the Wind, but not the Maltese Falcon.
I need to fix this bulletin board. It's making me crazy that the letters and spotlights are off-center. On the left are pictures of Marlon Brando and Rock Hudson. (Rachel and I used to have matching posters of Rock Hudson hanging in our bedrooms.) On the right is Rita Hayworth, Fred and Ginger, and James Dean. And in the middle is an inflatable award that I'm afraid the kids will destroy.
This is on the back wall. On the left are pocket charts for reading conferences. On the right is my book chat sign up. 
If you look closely, you can see the sign hanging that says, "You rock, Ms. B!" When I got to work the other day, I found that sign and another one that said, "I love this classroom!" and was signed by our assistant principal. He explained it to me when I went to thank him. Apparently there's a 7th grade teacher who just got switched from social studies to reading and is kind of nervous. Several of the administrators took him into my classroom and said, "This is what a reading classroom should look like." Makes me so happy!
So there are a few pics from my classroom. I forgot to take a picture of the bulletin board that took me forever to make, so I'll try to post that tomorrow. School starts tomorrow, and I am soooo excited!
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