Welcome to my home away from home!

Happy Saturday! I am here to share my classroom here in Hawaii! I am pretty happy with the way it turned out. This classroom is very different compared to what I am used to. So I really had to plan and figure out how to make things work! 

Writing area

 

My classroom supplies area

Math area

Above is my math workshop board.  I will have more on my math workshop once it gets started.

Under the fabric you will find all my math games and manipulatives. My bookshelves are all rusted and old, so I HAD to cover them! On top are my math center baskets!

Reading Area

 I am LOVING all the OHANA pictures that are coming it. My bookshelf is almost full now!

My library that still needs some work:( Under the fabric area all the old basals I wont be using! Had to hide them!

Student Area

In this area I have their Homework Club, Super Improvers Wall, Lunch count, and their baskets for their binders!

Front of the room

This is where I hold my morning meetings, guided reading (since I dont have a kidney table), and afternoon meetings. 

My desk is behind this

Views

 From the back of the room

From the front of the room

So that is it:) I hope you liked my classroom tour. If you have any questions about anything in my room, please ask! 

I am so excited to be a part of the TpT sale starting tomorrow!!!

I can't wait to get my shop on! 

I have spent some time today editing some items of mine and marking down prices! 

And today is the LAST day of my 50% off at my TN shop! 

Enjoy your weekend!

Day 2 in my classroom with a freebie bloghop sneak peak!

I got to spend a few hours today working in my room! Thank you to my hubby for dropping me off! I am nooooo where near done, but I wanted to share what I have done so far!

I promise to do a whole post once my room is complete with links from where I found things and descriptions of everything.

But for now, here is day 2 in pictures!

 I moved my Cafe wall:)

 Not done with my writing board just yet! Green pocket chart will have cards for the stages of writing. Plus I don't like that blank spot above the words!  And isn't that rusty bookshelf gross??? YUCK! I have fabric to cover them since I go through ALL the bookshelves!

 back of the room looking to the front...not done yet! That pink board is behind my desk. Not sure what to put there. Any ideas???

Nonfiction is going on the other side:)

Homework spot!

Here is to a great week! Tomorrow we are supposed to have a Tropical Storm! It has already started raining:( Hopefully all will be ok! 

Then Tuesday I am back to work! Hopefully I will be ready to go by Monday! I haven't even started planning yet:( I really can't because I haven't even met half my team nor do I know the expectations and schedule for the year! All will come this week!

Thursday our POD finally arrives!!! I am SO ready for my own bed, couch, TV, desk, printer, school stuff....and so much more!!! 

 Since I am now living in Hawaii, I am teaming up with some fantastic Hawaii Bloggers! Come back tomorrow for our

Day 1 in my new classroom!

I FINALLY got some time to work in my room! I was up and ready to go super early this morning! My husband had somewhere to be at 7 so he needed the car. He dropped me off at Starbucks and I had someone special come and pick me up!

I was lucky enough to meet the super sweet Angelia from Extra Special Teaching.

She had a meeting to go to, right by my school so she dropped me off so I could work in my room!

As soon as I walked in, I got right to work! Mind you...there are a few things different about my new classroom compared to my old classroom...

1. no air condition-I have two fans and a nice cross breeze

2. no kidney table

3. cockroaches and geckos-yup...you read that right! Hawaii has a HUGE problem with these. Luckily I only found one dead one in my room! BUT tons outside my door...YUCK

First I had to take down the butcher paper and trimmers the last teacher left up...Then take down all the newspaper around my 10...yes 10 bookshelves.  I needed to figure out my arrangement, move stuff around and then I could get started with putting things up and organized. 

I did not get to all the shelves and crap that was left in my room. That is going to take a day in itself:(

Here are the before pictures

Here are the pictures of what I accomplished today! 

Ugh...the green fabric is messed up! Hopefully the posters will hide that problem! 

Also that picture frame is my OHANA poster. The kids will bring their picture frames and place them on the top of these bookshelves(that need to be cleaned out...yuck)

 stuff I need to put up still! 

I can't wait to be done. Everything you see in bins or bookshelves is NOT MINE and I need to go through it. There is seriously soooo much stuff! 

When I am all done, I will show you a class tour!!!

So when Angelia picked me up, we headed over to Chili's for an early dinner with another special person! 

Corinna from Surfin' Through Second is just as sweet in person as she is in the blogging world!

I have seriously made some lifelong friends! These ladies rock!

We stayed for almost 2 hours! I was nice to chat about school and Hawaii stuff:) 

Yes, and no picture. I was rather happy about that because I think I lost 5lbs from sweating so much:( 

I hope you all have a happy friday! I am excited to share this day with my husband. Shrimp truck, beach, shaved ice, and a food truck rodeo are in the plans!!!

Teacher Week Catch up...long:)

This week got the best of me and I am dog tired! We had our first week back full of meetings, working in our rooms, and meet the teacher! Meet the teacher was a HUGE success! I am really thinking I lucked out and got a great group of kiddos! They all were so sweet, happy, were excited they had me as a teacher! The parents were happy, brought some supplies in and jumped right in and asked when they can help out! How awesome is that!!! I am excited!

So here I am playing catch up...at home...back on the internet...FINALLY:) I am not at the coffee shop, but home in pj's, in a silent house, with my cat right next to me and pancakes for dinner;) Way better than a noisy coffee shop!

Since I only completed MONDAY of teacher week with Blog Hoppin, I have a lot to talk about and show you! So I am apologizing in advance, but I promise it will be worth it:)

Tuesday-Technology tip
I am SURE someone has talked about this...but my tip is to use...

I always, always, always use PowerPoint to make my creations! It is sooooo user friendly! Word is not! So ditch word and get with using PowerPoint, you will be very happy you did! 

Wednesday-Where I Teach 

I teach 3rd grade in a school of about 900 kids! We have a HUGE staff and a HUGE school! I just finished my room but have to go in this weekend to copy, sharpen pencils, and all that stuff before the kiddos come Monday! So here are my pictures of my final room! Enjoy!

 This is when you first walk in

These are my book bins with their literacy/writing notebooks and my library

  

My math workshop board

  

objective board with homework on the bottom

 Back sink area with crayon/marker/colored pencil bins

  

Writing and Word Work area

My area! Daily 5 stuff will be on the closet doors

  

Welcome area with...

cubbies, mystery person, homework tickets, notes, hopping helpers, soaring eagle of the week, question of the week, schedule, all about me, calendar, newsletter

 Level Up area, frogtastic spellers club, literacy focus board, my smaller desk 

 Math area

  

Their math notebooks are in the fabric bins

  

math manipulatives, games, resources, center materials

Daily 5 papers and stuff they need

When you walk out

When you walk in

 My classroom bulletin board outside of my room!

A nice welcome to my new 3rd grades from last years class:)

Thursday-therapeutic 
When I do relax...and that is a goal of mine this year, these are some things I like to do:) 

Being in Hawaii with my hubby and playing with my cat are very relaxing to me! I do love baking, shopping at Target, enjoying a cold coffee from Starbucks, getting a long pedicure, going to the movies, and yes...taking Step Aerobics relaxes me since I love it so much! 

Friday-FREEBIE 

Freebies are always great! So today I am going to give my Dunking Division Poke game to you for free! I hope you like it!

Well, that is it for today! I will be back this weekend with my 500 follower giveaway! 

Have a great Friday everyone:)