"Before"
Classroom Photos
As of August 17th,
all I have done is make a BIG mess!! :-)
I hope to add
"after" photos sometime before the end of August. These
photos will be placed in a PowerPoint that I will create with
my students in September entitled "Mrs. Kugler Gets Ready
for Kindergarten."
Be patient - these
photos will take awhile to load.
The "back
corner" that will become my Dramatic Play area.
The "back
wall" area that will serve as a display for student work
and writing. The left edge of the area will be a center table
and to the right of the bulletin board will be the writing center.
The "other
back corner" will hold the writing center and the word wall.
In the Spring we must put everything up off the floor, anything
on the floor goes in the hallway for several weeks while floors
are being refinished. Therefore, I stack things high!
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. This year I plan to tape down
name tags, a novel note shape for table label and a few other
blank shapes that I can program as I like (with phone numbers,
birthdays, or addresses). I bought the really wide tape from Really
Good Stuff and plan to mount the things for the year and then
use permanent marker to write on them and erase it with hair spray.
I program the tables with letters, number and sight words. That
way we have instant practice everytime we line up!
This corner is
mine - there has been lots of discussion on the KinderKorner list
serve about getting rid of teacher's desks, but I have to have
my corner! I like my stuff! Of course, no Kindergarten teacher
gets to sit down during the day!
This is the front
wall and where I will have my story corner and group time. Two
of the file cabinets hold my classroom library arranged alphabetically
by author. Way to the left will be my computer center since I
have outlets and network access there. The white board on the
right will hold morning meeting stuff and chart paper. It is magnetic
and versatile. To the right is the main classroom door and classroom
bathroom.
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. The boxes on my guided reading table are the new
reading series. I now have all those materials put away! Hooray!
We are almost
back to where we started! This area is my art area. Easels and
a project table.
This area is the
cubbie area and is behind the island, separate from the main classroom.
I love the storage. We put our coats and things in the cubbies
and hang our backpacks on the metal hooks to the right. That way
our bags are easily accessible when we are digging for our snack.
Each student has a cubbie where they keep their pencil box and
their Read, Write and Rest box.
Home
This page went
online August 17, 2001.
Copyright Patsi
Kugler, 2001.
