Classroom Reveal 2017-2018

The first day of school is on Monday and I think I am ready! I have my lessons and activities ready for the first week and my classroom is set up and ready to welcome my 5 students. Here is my classroom reveal for the 2017-2018 school year! I decided to do a burlap and apple theme, although I did keep some items from when I had a nautical theme. I just couldn't let them go! I will be going through specifics of my classroom and schedule in later posts, but for now, here is some of my room.

  

 Hallway bulletin board. My wonderful mom helped me with the burlap around the board. Without her it would have looked like a train wreck! The pineapples came from here and have my name, my para's name, and my student's names on them. The little calkboard clothespin came from the dollar section at Michaels. Each one has one of my student's name on it and I plan on using them to hang up their work.




My door from the hallway. The welcome sign and most of the burlap décor came from Clutter-Free Classroom. I love how it all turned out and I especially like that room seems cozy and comfortable. The chalkboard sign was a great find from Michaels and it was on sale!















The door inside the classroom. The cling apples are from the dollar spot in Target. There were so many apple themed items this year and it was perfect for my room. The door also has our check in areas for lunch, specials, and recess. The little box has a finished sign attached to it and my students place their visual schedule piece in there after returning from lunch, specials, or recess.

 

 

This shelf is right when you walk into the classroom. Students place their belongings here in the morning and put their folders and planners in the mailboxes. The clipboard next to the mailboxes has a sign in where students write their names when they enter the classroom.

 

 

 

 

View of the classroom from the door.

 

This is the first bulletin board closest to the classroom door. I post our student and adult daily schedules here. I also put up our newsletter that our autism coach sends home monthly. Lesson plans are posted so that administration knows what we are working on when they come in. I also type up a brief summary of student behaviors and behavior plans and clip it on a clipboard. The blue bin holds materials that the students have to take to specials. The two red bins are labeled by group and hold all of the behavior visuals each group needs .









My direct instruction table. Each of my centers is color coded and there is a hanging color sign above each area in the classroom with a written description of each area. The tables have a color coded label and each area has a check in center that aligns with the color. The classroom schedule as well as the student's individual schedules are also color coded. This way my student's know exactly where to go throughout the day as well as paras, substitutes, and administration.

Behind my direct instruction table. The three drawer bins are labeled by group (I have 3 groups in my class). The bin on the far right holds my sight word readers from Reading A-Z. The fabric bins hold math manipulatives, and math and language arts intervention binders and extra activities I use for small group. My data binder is housed in the black fabric caddy that I got from Amazon. It holds so much!

Two of my students use a point system from The Autism Helper. They can earn the treasure box at the end of the day when they receive 10 points. My other three students use a five star token system to get reinforcement more frequently throughout the day. Our daily schedule is posted and is color coded for each center and has Velcro on both sides. When we finish something, we will turn the picture over.

This is the rest of the white board. Student desks face the board. I use this board for our whole group reading and whole group science and social studies. We use Unique Learning systems as a curriculum and I love the reading activities. Typically I will put up a poster or visual for the topic we are working on in science or social studies. To the right of the board is out Morning Meeting schedule and our attendance check in system. Find it here! The two blue crates hold all of our Unique work, science and social studies work, and our morning meeting journals.

Morning Meeting area. This bulletin board is used for our morning meeting. The schedule and attendance check in are also a part of our morning meeting.















View of the entire white board.










My desk area. Not much explaining to do here :) A lot of the apple things came from Target!

 Here is my work station! I set this up last year and it has been great. I can easily grab materials to put together my activities. The black crate holds my laminator, binding machine, and Velcro. the small red bin has tape, a stapler, and scissors. The blue bin is sort of a catch all. I will put things that need to be filed in their or things I have made but am not using quite yet, but will use very soon.

 


I have a number of binders that hold most of my master copies of worksheets and activities. This set of binders are used more often and so I wanted them to be in an easily accessible area. They include our alphabet and number notebook masters, spelling and functional spelling, reading notebook, and monthly homework. The folder on top holds the homework copies I have made for the next week.

 

This is our library and story time area. The bulletin board has our word wall. I also have our games stored here. Next to the library area is out choice time area where students have some time to interact with each other and play. The computers will be stores on the red rack on the circle table.

Choice time toy storage.

Next to choice time, our break area. This is between two filing cabinets. I taped a large sheet of black bulletin board paper across the top to create more of a cozy feel. One of my student's little sister came to the meet and greet and tucked in some stuffed animals. So cute!

This is our green center. We use this for arts and crafts, board games, and cooking activities. The back shelf also holds extra pencils, crayons, scissors, and glue.

Middle of the room, Independent Center. This is a part of our center rotation. During the first rotation students work out of task boxes and during the second rotation students have independent binders.

Para run center. This is also used during our center rotation and my para runs this center. I will go into more detail on the centers at a later post :)







So that's it! I really love how the room turned out and I am so excited to see my students Monday morning.