This is a view of the room as you
come in the door. Our dragon
poster and place value chart are
over the whiteboard. The green
and yellow pocket chart is used
for sorting spelling words. The
blue bulletin board is where I
post student art.

This year I'm back to using a
pocket system for jobs. I printed
the labels for free from the
ABCTeach.com website. The
students rotate through the jobs
each week, so each student does
every job at least twice in the
year.

This bulletin board reflects
whatever unit we're working on.
Right now it's Rocks and Minerals
in Science and Multiplication in
Math. The blank chartlet on the
Science side is laminated so
students can write "I Wonder"
science questions on it. We
investigate to find the answers
together.

This board changes throughout the
year, depending on what we're
learning in social studies. Later
it will have a map of the
California regions and even
later, a map of California
missions. I laminate the maps so
we can use them to write on and
wipe off when we're learning
about latitude and longitude and
when we're marking locations.

I have my classroom library
sorted by genre into tubs and
placed on bookshelves. They are
the plastic tubs you can buy for
$1.00 each. I bought genre labels
from Demco and the students
labeled the books and the tubs.
This way, each student can tell
exactly which tub the books
belong in when they're done
reading them.

I keep Accelerated Reader tubs on
another bookshelf, with each tub
labeled with the color of the
level. Each book is labeled with
a matching color label.

Here's the bulletin board I put
on our door at the beginning of
the year. Each student got to
take their photo and camera frame
home after Back to School Night.