August 2004 Classroom Pictures

"Getting Ready" Classroom Photos

August 2004

I am planning to create a book for my classroom titled "Mrs. Kugler gets ready for Kindergarten" modeled after Miss Bindergarten. I will choose a variety of photos that show the various stages of getting my room ready.

I will add more photos to my website as I make progress. Our school year starts on September 1st.

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You can see that I have my work cut out for me. Lots of stuff to put away! We must be sure that everything is off the floor since the custodians clear the room to do the floors during the summer. I stack as much as I can so they don't have to move anymore than they have to into the hallway.

This area will be the dramatic play area and the block corner. To the left of the photo is by back door.

The "teaching wall" has the white board that I will be teaching from when children are working at their table. I have four large rectangle tables that seat 4-5 kids each. I program the tables with letters, numbers or sight words. That way we have instant practice everytime we line up!

The island is also stacked high with stuff. The white pocket chart stand is actually a laundry rack from Wal-mart - it was around 9.99.

The left corner here shows the bathroom and the main entrance door. The sink and cupboards on the right are actually the island and behind it is the cubbies. My computers will go on a table in one of the corners to create a computer center. The apples on the cupboard doors are the letters of the alphabet that create my word wall. My center board is standing on the counter - I covered an old chart stand with fabric and I pinned a calendar pocket chart to it and put 3x3 cards in the squares to create the choice board.

I am standing by my white board in the front of the room looking towards the back. My Story Corner/meeting place is in the back corner - my rug isn't spread out yet.

Here is another shot of what will be the Story Corner.

And we are back to where we started. The big bulletin board that is covered is where I display student work. I covered all of my bulletin boards with fabric a couple of years ago and it works great! It has held up really well.

This is my cubby area - I use the coat rack mounted on the right wall for back packs and cubbies for coats. We also store our resting mats and our Read, Write and Rest boxes and pencil boxes in our cubbies.

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This page went online August 1, 2004.