Five for Friday!

Hey, guys! I completely forgot it was Friday today! I guess that’s what I get for spending all of my time thinking about the upcoming school year. Good thing Five for Friday is one of my favorite linky parties… here goes!

Last weekend, I came back home from a cruise vacation. It was fabulous and very relaxing, but I was so eager to get into my classroom and start getting ready for the new school year. Seriously, I made lists of things that I had to do while at the beach! Here’s a picture from my room’s balcony..

On Monday, my room was finally cleaned and waxed, so I could start going in! I began working on a few projects that have been on my to-do list all summer. Here’s a sneak peak at a few things I’ve been working on…

While I was re-organizing my classroom library, I began to pull out some of my favorite first day of school books.  Last year, I read Back to School Tortoise and Edward and the Pirates on the first day of school.  Some of the others were read at other times during the week.  I am working on my plans for the first week of school, so I’ll let you know my plans for all of these books! Have you read any of these to your class on the first day of school? I’d love your input!

Here’s a sneak peak at the new word wall that I’m working on.  My plan is to use a clothespin to hang the sight words from the ribbon so that my students can unclip the word and bring it to their desk when they are writing. Then, it will be easy for them to clip it back on. I was originally going to use velcro, but I think that the clothespins might be easier for little hands. The velcro is kind of heavy duty!

I FINALLY bit the bullet and found a way to organize my anchor charts! If you’d like to read about what I did, check it out {here}! I promise it is a lifesaver for those of you who don’t have long drawers capable of storing these large charts!

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