Classroom Tour Part 1

It has been a long three days, but the result has been worth it.  

  

Here was the plan

 The picture above is the plan for the front half of my classroom.  I have an extremely large room (35 feet X 55 feet) yes you are reading that right.  Most teachers dream is to have a bigger classroom, but some days I go home and wish for a smaller one.  One of these days I need to wear a pedometer to see how many steps I take in a day getting around this room.  

Before Picture Monday Afternoon I had already been working on my desk area before I thought of taking pictures,

 One of my obstacles is that I have a stage area in the room and if I do not plan around it, it becomes a running and jumping area.  To solve the problem I am going to place the children's cubbies in front of the steps to form a wall.

After Picture Wednesday January 9th

 Before Picture Monday January 7th

 After Picture Wednesday January 9th

 Before Picture Monday January 7th

 After Picture Wednesday January 9th

I wanted to make sure that I provided areas that would help me meet the Preschool Learning Foundation as well as being able to support the Common Core Standards.

 This table and area is what I also use as my individual instruction table.  Where I pull 3 to 4 children at a time and work on one to one instruction.  

 Before Picture Monday January 7th

 This corner in the classroom was a changing table that we have turned into a parent resource area that they can find books and articles that can be checked out for reading.

After Picture Wednesday January 9th

Parent Resource Area

Please join me again tomorrow and I will give you Part 2 of the Classroom Tour