Classroom Tour

Thank you for your patience and I finally completed my classroom tour page :) If you have any questions about anything that you see, please leave me a comment or email me.

Click on the image below to take a tour of my 3rd grade classroom on YouTube! :)

My student’s book nook for independent reading and reading workshop:

My classroom library:

At the beginning of the year, I put caution tape on the bookshelves, and our principal comes to cut the tape at our grand opening:

A bigger picture of my back “wall,” which is not a wall. Instead it is a metal “divider.” When I moved into this classroom years ago, my mom and I spent MANY days during the summer hot gluing the different colored fabric to the metal divider. It was time well spent! The fabric held up really well and I can hang all my posters and anchor charts up using magnets. Not ideal, but neither is having an ugly brown magnetic divider to cover!

Under the genre posters, are the baskets for the writers’ notebooks. Each table has a different color and each table captain is responsible for getting the basket out for every morning. Also shown is my classroom economy behavior management plan.

The calm down corner, that students can visit if they are stressed, upset, sad or just need a minute. You can read more about how I use fidgets in my classroom, by clicking HERE!

Behavior management resources, fidgets, and calm down corner ideas are part of my file:
Classroom Management for your (Anxious, Angry, Joyful, Hyperactive) Kiddos.

I keep all my math task cards organized into the different math categories: number and operations in base 10, operations and algebraic thinking, numbers and operations in fractions, geometry and measurement and data.

A major part of the third grade CCSS for math include mastery of multiplication and division facts. I had to pull out all my best tricks to motivate my students to master their math facts. I use a “division doctors” theme and a “monster multiplication” theme to motivate my kiddos!

When students master all their multiplication facts, they are officially a “monster” of multiplication and get to take their picture with the monster grin photo props, which I them email to their parents.

I post all of my math anchor charts on my math bulletin board. These are some of our anchor charts for kick starting our guided math at the beginning of the year.

My math bulletin board, with all our important vocabulary words to know, is courtesy of Teaching and Tapas:

Another picture of this LARGE bulletin board:

The front of my classroom, where I have my white board and Smartboard (You can read more about this specific lesson HERE).

A few other pictures of my entire “walls”:

My math manipulatives are on the white bookshelves under our clock: pattern blocks, unifix cubes, clocks, geo mirrors, fraction circles, and games to practice math facts.

The two desks in the from of the room are for the bathroom sign out, sharpening pencils with the world’s best pencil sharpener, disinfecting wipes, and kleenex. A regular one stop shop. :)

In the picture below, the pink bins are for the students to keep their dictionaries and other big books that we use for research during our science/social studies units. When the books don’t fit in their book nooks, they go in the pink bins!

Students keep their clip under the poster that indicates how they go home for that day.

When students need to use the bathroom, they sign out and put the disinfectant pump on their desk. This is my visual reminder that I have a student out of the room.

One of the rewards for my behavior management plan is for my students to buy “teacher helper” for a day. One of the jobs of the teacher helper is to sharpen our class supply of pencils. Believe it or not, they love this job :)

Where Are You Going? Clip Chart. As students walk out the door, they move their clip to show that they are leaving the classroom.

My mailbox, which I leave on my desk, so my students can put any important notes from their parents, notes that go to the office, etc.

“Whoooo’s a Good Looking Kid?” sign that I posted on my classroom mirror. My students then created their own owl with scrapbook paper.

This mirror is right by my green carpet area. One of the rewards is to sit on the green carpet for the whole day—-with a friend! I know, right? This is currently a hot ticket item! :)

I organize my materials by subject, not by day. I put them each in their own bin. This is not the most organized way, obviously!, but it works for me! :)

I hope that you enjoyed a peak inside my classroom!

Welcome to Inspire Me ASAP. I am a National Board Certified 2nd Grade Teacher. This is my 18th year of teaching. I love inspiring other elementary teachers to implement new ideas, strategies, and lessons in their classroom.

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