Monday Made It and Room Pics

Today's Monday Made It just may be the last one of the school year. :-/
I'm back in the classroom now. Not on contract time yet but I will be by Friday. My room is almost done....almost! I have a few things to hang and then I'm done.  I think.  Mr. C mentioned that I've done a lot of updating this year, and I have!!  Our building is getting an overhaul in the next few years so I didn't want to buy all new decor just yet so I updated....by means of crafting...all...summer.  At least it feels like it.  Instagram has been a source of lots of inspiration and kept my wish list busy!

But for today's link up I have a few projects.   

First, I made a pennant banner and got it hung. Yay! That took a long time but it'll do.

Second, I redid my student check in board. Someone on IG posted theirs and I HAD to redo mine to be more colorful. I love the change!!

Three, super easy but I painted and ribboned cans to hold my pens/markers/pencils etc for the reading table.

And lastly, magnets. Check em out!  Super easy and cute! Can't not make these!!

See?? I told ya there was several MIM projects!  And I'm probably missing something. 

Onto classroom pics. I know I posted some in the last post but these are better ;-)

Happy Monday everyone!! My last one of summer, eek!

Behind my teaching table..my little place. Needs new pictures and the C is crooked.

This will house my lesson plans and homework to grade and notes and other piles

Word Wall

This will eventually have our data wall, weekly cycles posted

August....seriously, August!

Anyone else realize that it's August 1st??  It's even 8pm here which is practically midnight, which might as well be Aug 2nd...which means August might as well be half over and then it's LABOR DAY! Holy Moly....seriously. That's what it feels like!  It's August already!  I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking "where did the summer go?" but either way, it's here. Time to embrace it.

I spent most of today at school, but not exactly in my room.  I did manage to redo the bulletin space above the ancient chalkboard and put up my birthday signs.  Trust me, that was tedious work.  AND I only got a little chatty and distracted but it was well worth it.  Our building has several new faces so I made sure to check in often and make sure we weren't all stressing out...yet!

I am soooo excited for this school year.  Without going into too much details on here, our staff is pretty solid, close, and definitely kid-oriented. I feel this year we have a great team that is eager to get started and the vibe around the building is definitely positive. Not that it hasn't been in the past, there's just something different about this year.  I imagine our leadership has a lot to do with it but either way, I'm looking forward to this year.  I foresee HUGE things happening in our building!

So onto my room. As I left today, I took some classroom pictures...just for the blog.  My room isn't done, so don't judge. There are still boxes, empty and half-done bulletins, and piles and piles and piles.  But here's the room. I hope the pictures make sense!

Looking back towards the door (left side of pic). This is the work table, writing shelf, library, technology station. 

Looking towards my door (under the clock). Cubbies under the black curtain. 

Looking right at the SmartBoard wall...the ladder will be gone soon.  

Looking into my room, the right hand side.  Chalkboard and Smartboard on the right

Looking into my room, the left hand side.  Work table, library, writing shelf, and my reading table.