Young Daze in 5th Grade. Wild about fifth grade. Two Things in Common. 6th grade Mrs. Beers. August 2011. The preparations are well underway as an exhausting yet thrilling week of pre-planning comes to an end. Our superhero theme, Empowering the Future, made it easy to decorate for the student WOW factor, and no detail was overlooked as we strived for an organized classroom that would provide purpose and limit student transition time between activities.
I feel like we were thoughtful and successful in setting up a learning community that will meet the needs of our students and ourselves. Take a sneak peek inside our classroom before the learning journey begins... The Hallway of Our Learning Headquarters Upon rounding the corner, the hallway comes alive with color thanks to the hard work of a parent volunteer who graciously gave up days of her summer to help us WOW our future students. We welcome all superheroes on this year's learning adventure! The Math, Science, and Social Studies heroes are ready to go outside the Headquarter of Learning. A sneak peek inside our classroom... Calendar. 3rd Van Dyke. 3rd grade thoughts. I love Bucket Filling and incorporating it throughout our day and year. It is such a fantastic way of thinking about our words and actions and the best part is that it's so simple! I blogged about how I launched bucket filling HERE and I wanted to tell you about a super-fun find that is working perfectly in my classroom this year- a hanging jewelry organizer!
My mom found this one for me at TJ Maxx for under $20 and it was such a great deal! This hanger has 30 small pockets and three large pockets on the bottom. I used address labels to label each pocket with a student's name and am using the bottom middle pocket to store the blank bucket filler cards. These are business cards from Vistaprint and you can usually get them for super-cheap. I just altered the text on the card design found HERE or by searching "Owl Business Card". These tiny pockets are perfectly sized to hold these cards and it makes it sosososo easy for me to see who needs a quick bucket-filling :)